1. Every culture is broken. Including companies that claim to be “great cultures”. The idea is to find a broken culture that fits your jigsaw puzzle.
2. Finding your passion is overrated. Finding driven and positive people to work with is the real deal.
3. No matter how valuable you are for the company, you are your manager’s one bad mood away from being fired. For no reason 🙂 So, always have a passive source of income and an active source of happiness outside of your job.
4. A manager that pushes you and critiques you is way better than a manager that doesn’t. Nothing meaningful usually good comes out of comfort zone.
5. Lastly, your colleagues will celebrate your personal milestones. Your family will celebrate your work milestones. However, one day, you will move on from this work and that would be it.
Work, much like life, is in embracing the ebb and flow of change, and going along with it.
Bonus: At the end of the day, all you have is You.
Make sure whatever you do, the person in the mirror looks back at you with pride. Nothing else really matters.
Truths of corporate life no one will tell you
