“You can call me a grumbler, but now I’m 34 years old, and I see that the idea of the young generation about how to achieve success in work is very different from the path I followed. I made many mistakes while walking towards my goal. And now I see that the young also make mistakes, but already theirs, ”Nazar writes.
1. Time is an exhaustible resource
So rare are young boys and girls who realize that a career is better not to be put off the bat. At twenty, we believe that we have all the time in the world to achieve what we want. Time is a treasure. At the very beginning, we get it in abundance, and then we can never return it. Take advantage of most of the opportunities now, because then you will not have time for this.
2. You are talented, but your talent is overrated
Perhaps you are the most capable, creative, gifted with knowledge and multitasking generation. Congratulations on this! However, raw materials (regardless of their value) are wasted potential. Rewards are not given for talent, but for results. Even the most talented people painstakingly and painfully gnawed their way to success.
3. We are more productive in the morning
The first two years of work in his company, Nazar was proud that he regularly worked until three in the morning (then he was just over twenty years old). Nazar believed that he manages to do a lot of things after everyone leaves the office. But now, looking back, he realizes that in the late hours he did the rough work, and not the strategically important one - calls, planning, meetings. Now Nazar is focusing on the morning hours, because he knows that the first hours of the working day are the most productive.
4. Social media is not a career.
Five years later, the post of SMM-manager will not be at all. SMM is just a part of the marketing job that works for branding. This is just a way to raise awareness, attract an audience, or spur revenue. Think twice before linking your career solely to social media.
5. Pick up the phone
Stop hiding at the computer. Business is done over the phone or face to face. You should be happy if you can communicate with the source of opportunities - a real person - directly. This should be your main instinct! And stop making puppy eyes and asking for home, you just have to go to the Internet. Stop being weaklings - answer the phone!
6. Be the first and last one to come and go from work
This is advice to anyone who takes on a new job or takes their first professional steps. You have more reasons to stay at work than anyone else, because you have something to prove. There is one sure way to get ahead - it is to work more than peers.
7. Do not wait for instructions on what to do.
There are no privileges without obligations. You will never break through if you wait for instructions from others. The words "no one asked me to do this" is a sure way to failure. Make a mistake and do too much than too little.
8. Accept responsibility for your mistakes.
You will and must make many mistakes when you start your career. But you should not defend yourself when you are told that your judgments or ways of working are wrong. Stop finding excuses for your shoals. You are just starting to grow, so learn lessons from mistakes and improve the skill of stuffing cones.
9. It’s good for you to get kicks in the ass
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada is the best boss you can have. You are at the very beginning of your professional career. Now you are the most impressionable, malleable and receptive to everything new. A leader who demands excellence from you and pushes you out of your comfort zone builds a solid foundation for your continued professional success in the future.
10. A new job every year is not a good idea.
And do not say that you are so talented that in one year you can grow a company. Jumps from place to place indicate the absence of discipline, without which it is impossible to delve into the growth curve up to the top. To master a new important skill, you need two to three years. Allow at least so much time to work before jumping onto another ship. Otherwise, the next employer will see solid red flags screaming in your resume that you do not need to be hired.
11. At work, people are more important than good conditions.
Now young people are especially in demand by companies that offer flexible working hours, paid meals, corporate massages, game rooms and corporate parties. All this is important, but it is not more important than the personality of the founders and managers of the company. Outstanding leaders will become mentors for you and will be a source of work for a long time after you leave the company. Make a conscious bet on the people you work with, and your commitment to them will bring you much more than all corporate amenities combined.
12. Draw a map of efforts and professional achievements
Are you asked to do something you don't like? Keep in mind the expected reward. Combine in your thoughts what you are doing today with who you want to be tomorrow. If we cannot compare future success with current responsibilities, then perhaps it is time to find new opportunities in a new place.
13. Speak directly, not behind your back.
We are raising a generation of gossipers. For the workplace, it’s like a cancerous tumor. If something does not triple in your head, company culture or responsibilities, speak openly! Do not take to heart complaints and nagging colleagues at dinner. If you can clearly convey what needs to be improved or changed, then you yourself shape your environment and professional destiny.
14. You should develop your technical acumen.
Still adding the line “Advanced Microsoft Office User” at the end of your resume? Know - this is not enough! For example, Nazar prefers candidates (regardless of their position) who are confident in Photoshop, HTML / CSS, IOS, WordPress, Adwords, MySQL, Balsamiq, Advanced Excel, Final Cut Pro. If you want to keep paid work, then supplement and develop your technical skills.
15. The scope and quality of your dating network is equally important.
Your friends know more than you. This principle drives business. Do you communicate closely with a small group of people. Or with a large group, but superficially. The main thing is to continue to communicate. Meet and stay in touch with a large number of people. Invest as much time in developing these relationships as you can.
16. You need at least three professional mentors
Are you looking for a guaranteed path to success? Repeat for those who have already climbed to where you want to be. Ideally, if you always have three people you can call mentors. Their free tips and tricks will be the most valuable gift you can get.
17. Apply the as if rule
You may not know what to do. But your idol in the profession knows. Choose the entrepreneur you admire and act “as if”. If you [insert idol’s name], how would he or she behave in this situation? What decision would you make? How would you organize the day? Which ways would achieve the goal? You must “stay in the role” until the work is completed, so you should “pretend” as the most experienced pretender you can imagine.
18. Read more books and less Twitter
A generation of twenty-year-olds consumes information with 140-character headings: there is no breadth and depth. Creativity, thoughtfulness and thinking skills develop when you exert strength and read a book from cover to cover. All the keys to your future success are left in the past experience of others. Be sure to read at least one book a month and your career will flourish.
19. Spend 25% less than you earn
When your material needs are on a par or exceed incomes, then you are sabotaging your talent, stopping it from becoming really big. Do not put yourself in gold handcuffs. Be prepared to spend 20% less in the short term if this means a potential income growth of 200% in the future. No matter how much you get, spend 25% less on life. This formula ensures that you will have less stress and will always have the opportunity to make your dreams come true.
20. Your reputation is priceless, do not destroy it
Over time, reputation becomes the most valuable currency in the business. This is an invisible key that opens or closes professional opportunities. At a time when everything is recorded and stored forever, you must protect your reputation as the most important treasure. If you lose this treasure once, you will never be able to return it.
1. Time is an exhaustible resource
So rare are young boys and girls who realize that a career is better not to be put off the bat. At twenty, we believe that we have all the time in the world to achieve what we want. Time is a treasure. At the very beginning, we get it in abundance, and then we can never return it. Take advantage of most of the opportunities now, because then you will not have time for this.
2. You are talented, but your talent is overrated
Perhaps you are the most capable, creative, gifted with knowledge and multitasking generation. Congratulations on this! However, raw materials (regardless of their value) are wasted potential. Rewards are not given for talent, but for results. Even the most talented people painstakingly and painfully gnawed their way to success.
3. We are more productive in the morning
The first two years of work in his company, Nazar was proud that he regularly worked until three in the morning (then he was just over twenty years old). Nazar believed that he manages to do a lot of things after everyone leaves the office. But now, looking back, he realizes that in the late hours he did the rough work, and not the strategically important one - calls, planning, meetings. Now Nazar is focusing on the morning hours, because he knows that the first hours of the working day are the most productive.
4. Social media is not a career.
Five years later, the post of SMM-manager will not be at all. SMM is just a part of the marketing job that works for branding. This is just a way to raise awareness, attract an audience, or spur revenue. Think twice before linking your career solely to social media.
5. Pick up the phone
Stop hiding at the computer. Business is done over the phone or face to face. You should be happy if you can communicate with the source of opportunities - a real person - directly. This should be your main instinct! And stop making puppy eyes and asking for home, you just have to go to the Internet. Stop being weaklings - answer the phone!
6. Be the first and last one to come and go from work
This is advice to anyone who takes on a new job or takes their first professional steps. You have more reasons to stay at work than anyone else, because you have something to prove. There is one sure way to get ahead - it is to work more than peers.
7. Do not wait for instructions on what to do.
There are no privileges without obligations. You will never break through if you wait for instructions from others. The words "no one asked me to do this" is a sure way to failure. Make a mistake and do too much than too little.
8. Accept responsibility for your mistakes.
You will and must make many mistakes when you start your career. But you should not defend yourself when you are told that your judgments or ways of working are wrong. Stop finding excuses for your shoals. You are just starting to grow, so learn lessons from mistakes and improve the skill of stuffing cones.
9. It’s good for you to get kicks in the ass
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada is the best boss you can have. You are at the very beginning of your professional career. Now you are the most impressionable, malleable and receptive to everything new. A leader who demands excellence from you and pushes you out of your comfort zone builds a solid foundation for your continued professional success in the future.
10. A new job every year is not a good idea.
And do not say that you are so talented that in one year you can grow a company. Jumps from place to place indicate the absence of discipline, without which it is impossible to delve into the growth curve up to the top. To master a new important skill, you need two to three years. Allow at least so much time to work before jumping onto another ship. Otherwise, the next employer will see solid red flags screaming in your resume that you do not need to be hired.
11. At work, people are more important than good conditions.
Now young people are especially in demand by companies that offer flexible working hours, paid meals, corporate massages, game rooms and corporate parties. All this is important, but it is not more important than the personality of the founders and managers of the company. Outstanding leaders will become mentors for you and will be a source of work for a long time after you leave the company. Make a conscious bet on the people you work with, and your commitment to them will bring you much more than all corporate amenities combined.
12. Draw a map of efforts and professional achievements
Are you asked to do something you don't like? Keep in mind the expected reward. Combine in your thoughts what you are doing today with who you want to be tomorrow. If we cannot compare future success with current responsibilities, then perhaps it is time to find new opportunities in a new place.
13. Speak directly, not behind your back.
We are raising a generation of gossipers. For the workplace, it’s like a cancerous tumor. If something does not triple in your head, company culture or responsibilities, speak openly! Do not take to heart complaints and nagging colleagues at dinner. If you can clearly convey what needs to be improved or changed, then you yourself shape your environment and professional destiny.
14. You should develop your technical acumen.
Still adding the line “Advanced Microsoft Office User” at the end of your resume? Know - this is not enough! For example, Nazar prefers candidates (regardless of their position) who are confident in Photoshop, HTML / CSS, IOS, WordPress, Adwords, MySQL, Balsamiq, Advanced Excel, Final Cut Pro. If you want to keep paid work, then supplement and develop your technical skills.
15. The scope and quality of your dating network is equally important.
Your friends know more than you. This principle drives business. Do you communicate closely with a small group of people. Or with a large group, but superficially. The main thing is to continue to communicate. Meet and stay in touch with a large number of people. Invest as much time in developing these relationships as you can.
16. You need at least three professional mentors
Are you looking for a guaranteed path to success? Repeat for those who have already climbed to where you want to be. Ideally, if you always have three people you can call mentors. Their free tips and tricks will be the most valuable gift you can get.
17. Apply the as if rule
You may not know what to do. But your idol in the profession knows. Choose the entrepreneur you admire and act “as if”. If you [insert idol’s name], how would he or she behave in this situation? What decision would you make? How would you organize the day? Which ways would achieve the goal? You must “stay in the role” until the work is completed, so you should “pretend” as the most experienced pretender you can imagine.
18. Read more books and less Twitter
A generation of twenty-year-olds consumes information with 140-character headings: there is no breadth and depth. Creativity, thoughtfulness and thinking skills develop when you exert strength and read a book from cover to cover. All the keys to your future success are left in the past experience of others. Be sure to read at least one book a month and your career will flourish.
19. Spend 25% less than you earn
When your material needs are on a par or exceed incomes, then you are sabotaging your talent, stopping it from becoming really big. Do not put yourself in gold handcuffs. Be prepared to spend 20% less in the short term if this means a potential income growth of 200% in the future. No matter how much you get, spend 25% less on life. This formula ensures that you will have less stress and will always have the opportunity to make your dreams come true.
20. Your reputation is priceless, do not destroy it
Over time, reputation becomes the most valuable currency in the business. This is an invisible key that opens or closes professional opportunities. At a time when everything is recorded and stored forever, you must protect your reputation as the most important treasure. If you lose this treasure once, you will never be able to return it.
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