Comments on: The Worst Career Advice You’ve Received

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:33:36 +0000

Have received some pretty career advice. When I was yet to get my present job, a friend advised me not to accept a security job simply because I was a graduate and thus the security job is demeaning for me

By: EMC

EMC — Wed, 14 May 2014 12:58:19 +0000

In reply to Laura. Well, I was told that "you don't need a rise, you already have a boyfriend". As you can imagine, they didn't give me the rise and couln't explain what that have to do with my works value. I moved to another company in a month, with a 75% rise. And while part of that rise was because I had more experience and my wage was entry level, I suspect that most of it had to do with that kind of "advice".

By: Tule

Tule — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:56:40 +0000

My instructor in design school shared with my whole class that if we want to be married and have children Fashion isnt the industry for us. We need to leave if a family is smething we want. Having a family will not get you far in the fashion industry and that we needed to make a career change that day if having a family in the future was important to us. Sad but very true so didnt listen there are so many successful designers who have families

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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:12:18 +0000

From various coworkers – “Don’t work too much/too hard.” and “They are using you, don’t do too much for them.”

Why is this bad advice? I saw 3 raises last year, gained more invaluable experience for myself and glimpsed into sections of my industry people with 10 years more experience can’t even understand, and am now a higher-up’s right hand (and yes, he openly gives credit to what is the result of my effort vs. his). If I didn’t work so many hours, so hard, I would still be a low-level paper-pusher fearing for my job everday in the great recession!

By: Syl

Syl — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:00:58 +0000

Hello,

I have a BA in psych. for for years now I am not able to find a position with it. I am thinking of going and getting a masters. can anyone give any advise of what i can do with a psch major? If I should get into a masters program, which should i consider the most?

Thank you!

By: Suzanne Lucas

Suzanne Lucas — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:50:39 +0000

Entries are officially closed. If you have some "good" career advice, feel free to share, but the winner has been picked and is (drum roll please) AZURE, who posted December 15, 2010 6:52 PM.

AZURE, please e-mail me at evilhrlady@gmail.com and I'll put you in contact with the Shabby Apple people. Congratulations!

By: ClarityPath

ClarityPath — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:08:44 +0000

From a former coworker:
"Don't get sidetracked by making friends at work. Just get your work done." Sadly the term "networking" was not in her vocabulary.

Thanks for the great contest!

By: G

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:10:44 +0000

I had just graduated from one of the top ten business schools in Canada with honours, and was getting advice from a local community job centre for youth. I explained that I was looking for entry-level analyst work at corporations with branches in my city, like TD Bank, Kellogg's, General Motors.

The counselor told me that corporations are really hard to get into, so I should consider something more realistic like a waitressing job, perhaps at an upscale place like Swiss Chalet.

Perhaps it was my fault for booking the free career counseling session without doing any prior research on the nature of the job centre - turned out they dealt primarily with street youth and also youth with learning disabilities. Of course I disregarded their advice and found a job in a mid-sized tech company with a wonderfully relaxed corporate culture.

By: the viking and the celt

the viking and the celt — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:10:03 +0000

Definitely the advice of my then-boss, who stated I would never make anything of myself I left the job where he was "instructing" his "subordinates" on how to be proper employees (we were all new graduates, but we started there before he arrived and had had a wonderful boss beforehand). He wasn't instructing us; he was bashing us down and making us feel worthless. I left the job, was temporarily unemployed, and ended up finding several jobs since then where I am respected and my ideas are consistently taken into consideration as to how the positions can evolve for myself or the next person to take over.

-the celt