careers

Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

You may be thinking that your company has a human resources person who will keep you out of trouble. This is a dangerous misconception. Whether your company has a massive Human Resources Department with hundreds of representatives or a small office with just a single representative, these HR reps are not your advocates. They work for the company, not for you.

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.

You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one has a gun to my head. Why can't this be my profession,one I have chosen for myself? I tell you prostitutes are professional in their skills and practise it like the vocation of true apostles- and why shouldn't they? What's so different from the accountant or the doctor selling his time? I ended up in this profession in the same way someone might end up being a lawyer because the couldn't get into engineering or dentistry,or because they couldn't get into medicine, or even a banker who grew up telling everyone they want to be a soccer player. They do those things because that was what was available for heir talents and their circumstances at that time. But do we pity them? No, because that's lif-

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives.

Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.

I__ very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at times looks scary and not polished, and so there were many times when I would audition for something and I would come from, for me, a very honest place, but it__ completely not what they__e looking for for that type of material. But I was always very steadfast in what I was interested in, and I felt like, I__ gonna tell the truth as best as I know it. And you eventually start to understand that the projects find you that meet up with that. It takes as long as it takes, and for me it took like 20 years, but I__ really glad. You know, the jobs always ultimately end up going to the person who__ supposed to tell that story, and those weren__ my stories to tell.

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren__ is because you have a conscience.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you__e doing is thinking.

Pushing them (children) into a career that is __ractical_/ __afe_/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn__ count as help. It__ how parents satisfy their own needs.