The hidden advantages of NOT maximizing for income early The paradox of chasing high pay early From The Mission on Medium. I think it’s a decent default rule to take the lowest pay you can for the first decade or so of your career. If you ignore pay and focus on other things, I’m willing to bet you’ll be happier and earn more pay a decade in than someone who maximizes pay from day one. I’ll walk you through my own example to explain some of the reasons I think this is …
What To Do When Your Crowd Stops Cheering (Part 3)
People talk shit on Millennials. Call them lazy. Entitled. And a million other names. But here’s the thing: they have a point. Our generation was raised in arguably the greatest era of innovation in human history. We experienced the last days of civilization before the internet. We were also there for the birth of some of mankind's greatest innovations. We remember a time before smart phones. Before Google search. Before on-demand everything. We didn’t just watch this enormous shift …
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What To Do When Your Crowd Stops Cheering (Part 2)
His face went ghost white as he stared into the screen. His bank account had just turned in its two week notice. This was crisis mode. He didn't just need a job. He needed to find a way to survive. Quick mental math told him he had less than a month before he was dead ass broke. It wasn't just rent or his student loans he wouldn't be able to cover. He didn't know what he'd do for food. The last thing he wanted to do was call mom and dad. The idea of a credit card crossed his mind. But how …
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What To Do When Your Crowd Stops Cheering (Part 1)
A lot of people my age and younger feel cheated by the system. Like they got sold a false bill of goods. Everyone told them, “You gotta get good grades so you can get into a good college.” So they did. And everyone cheered them on. They never worried about how they’d pay for it when they fled their parents’ nest. Loans were cheap and the same crowd told them, “There’s no investment as important as your education.” So they listened. And everyone cheered them on. Then a few …
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“But Then They Hired Someone with a Fancy Degree”
I often see people say things like, "Sure, they say you don't need a fancy degree to get the job, but then they hire people with fancy degrees." It's not because companies are lying about not needing a degree. It's because candidates are totally lame and uninteresting. In a pool of generic, flat, 2D resumes and applications, the better formal credential will get more attention, because there's nothing else to go on. In such a pool it's also true that anyone who can show anything more …
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Career Crashers Podcast:Episodes 2 & 3
Creating a Career in Marketing with Tim Chermak Tim Chermak is the CEO and founder of Platform Marketing. In this two-part installment, Tim joins Isaac to talk about how Tim dropped out of college and launched his career helping small businesses with marketing and turned that opportunity into a thriving company, Platform Marketing. Topics: The first step Tim took to starting his career. Realizing he wasn't interested in finance The difference between what he learned in …
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