How to get started with your career?
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How to get started with your career?
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How to get started with your career? – Find a mentor. Maybe you’re doing an internship at a in an office, maybe you’re scooping ice cream or slinging lattes, maybe you’re at a family event with lots of established folks. But finding a mentor, especially someone not necessarily your boss but who does work with you, can give a lot of unbelievable guidance in helping identify what you like to do and what you’re good at. Further: mentors often can’t wait to give good advice. You’re less a “sorry to bother you” situation than you think. – Try stuff. Don’t volunteer to take on every new project and get overwhelmed, but if it’s still early in your career (or even not!), take on stuff that doesn’t seem like a good fit for you. Corollary to the first point: If you’re taking on something you don’t know much about, ask your mentor. Trying and learning how to do new stuff, even if it ultimately isn’t for you, teaches problem solving. Invaluable. – Talk to everybody at your new job, on “work” social outings, on “social” social outings, and listen to what they do. Not only might you discover something you’re into, but you also might find an opportunity for to connect someone into a new job or even better a business opportunity. People remember connectors. – It’s a cliche but true: keep learning.
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