Re:What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your ...
by impendia on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:27PM
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I think the answer will differ wildly for different people. What I wish I had done:
- Pay at least a little attention to nutrition.
- Be more willing to do things by myself; there were certain activities, for which I had a vague impression you were supposed to wait until other people invited you to go with them.
- Be less afraid of upsetting professors and other authority figures. (And I say this as someone who is a professor now!)
- Try less hard to weasel my way into the "in" crowd. (And by "less hard" I don't mean "not at all"; these efforts were worthwhile to some extent.) Conversely, there were all sorts of interesting people who weren't "popular"; try to make friends with them, or even ask them out on dates.
- Somehow found a way to relax more, although that is always much easier said than done.
- Pay at least a little attention to nutrition.
- Be more willing to do things by myself; there were certain activities, for which I had a vague impression you were supposed to wait until other people invited you to go with them.
- Be less afraid of upsetting professors and other authority figures. (And I say this as someone who is a professor now!)
- Try less hard to weasel my way into the "in" crowd. (And by "less hard" I don't mean "not at all"; these efforts were worthwhile to some extent.) Conversely, there were all sorts of interesting people who weren't "popular"; try to make friends with them, or even ask them out on dates.
- Somehow found a way to relax more, although that is always much easier said than done.