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Re:The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle by Roritharr on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:50PM (#21084158)
Jumping into a high paying bullshit job, being on advisory boards, networking yourself into circles where your Rolodex becomes valuable that intro's from you can get you 70% into raising VC...

I've seen quite a few of these people in my area and they disgust me every time, coming from a "work is only valuable if it's hard" work-ethic family.

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Re:The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle by puranjay on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:18PM (#21085658)
It's an epidemic in my industry (marketing) so much so that I feel like I'm doing something wrong if I'm not out there building a personal brand.

I just feel that the work I do should be all the "brand" I need to build. Yet everything around me points to the contrary.

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Re:The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle by CobrastanJorji on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:55PM (#21086010)
You feel that actual value should be all that someone or something should need to be successful and that focusing on building a brand should be no substitute? And you work on what again?
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Re:The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle by puranjay on Thursday September 26, 2019 @06:43PM (#21086393)
I meant I see no point in building a personal brand.

My corporate brand is doing fine

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Re:The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle by hurrdurr2 on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:32AM (#21088743)
They should disgust everyone...but in our current culture of instagram model worship it's all about how you sell yourself with little or not much to back it up.
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