Be careful who you take career advice from. Knowing who to take advice from is a really good skill for any aspect of your life, but especially in the field of work, because work is changing very fast right now. A lot of advice that was good ten years ago is not good now. And [...]
Browsing category "Learn to take advice"Five steps to make yourself great
May 7th, 2009
The best way to get control of your career and stability in your life is to be great at what you do. Superstars are not out of work right now. Really. Even in finance. If you have an amazing track record in your field of work, you’ll have a job. And if you need to [...] How to decide if you need a therapist
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Learn to take advice
January 28th, 2009
I receive about fifty career questions each week. The questions have a predictable diversity, but not my answers. My answers are almost always the same advice: Know yourself better. Make better decisions for yourself by watching decisions celebrities make
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Learn to take advice
December 10th, 2008
This week's poll is about celebrities because I love peeking into their lives in order to see the world in new ways. I love learning so much that I think that’s even why I spent so much time with the farmer even though it was bad for a long time before I stopped dating him. [...] Three bad career questions people ask me all the time
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Learn to take advice
July 14th, 2008
I'd like to tell you that there are no bad questions. But you know what? That's not true. So here are the ways people ask me questions that drive me nuts: How to identify someone who is giving you bad advice
Posted to: Learn to take advice
June 24th, 2008
The worst career advice I ever gave was to my brother's college roommate, Robert Buckley. He was one year out of college when he asked me if he should quit healthcare consulting to become an actor. None of us has especially unique career trouble – not even Emily Gould
May 26th, 2008
One of the most dangerous things you can do in your career is to think you are different from everyone else. The biggest validation of that idea comes in AA meetings – it is widely understood by this group that thinking you're different is just an excuse not to get help, an excuse to think [...] How to start something that scares you (and I'm Twittering)
Posted to: Blogging | Learn to take advice
April 17th, 2008
I started using Twitter, after thinking about starting for at least six months. It's very scary to start something new and have no idea what I'm doing. Advice from the trenches of my television trials
Posted to: Learn to take advice | Promoting yourself
January 11th, 2008
I have been auditioning to host a reality show about work, and I'm supposed to fly out to Los Angeles for a test run in front of a camera. My friend Sharon, hair stylist to the LA jet set, told me that I have to get my teeth whitened. Learn to take criticism well by choosing your critics well
Posted to: Learn to take advice | Mentoring
December 24th, 2007
Do you ever search 43 Things? I love going through it to see what goals people have for themselves. I like seeing where my own goals and accomplishments fit in with everyone else's. Stop thinking you'll get by on your high I.Q.
November 20th, 2007
My son's I.Q. is in the top .05% of all preschoolers, but he attended preschool in a special education classroom. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism typified by a distinctly high I.Q. and a notable lack of emotional intelligence. Asperger's is thought to be genetic, and it is surging among kids in places [...] What's a good question? What's a good answer?
Posted to: Learn to take advice | Self-management
September 9th, 2007
The best questions are not necessarily those that get answers, but those that lead to sharper questions. Do you need a career coach or a shrink?
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Learn to take advice
March 21st, 2007
I had a career coach. I got the coach the day after a meeting where I was the only woman and the only person under thirty. My boss said, “You need more polish. You need a career coach." I thought, “Great, my boss is going to pay to help me to fit in with the [...] Hey, it's time to pre-order my book!
March 8th, 2007
Today's the big day that I announce my book. It's not out yet. Not until May 22. But today is the day I put the photo of the book cover on the blog and tell you that you should pre-order the book. Yes. Please do that. Pay attention to your critics — at least some of them
Posted to: Learn to take advice | Self-management
February 2nd, 2007
Take a look at my Yahoo! Finance column for this week: 239 people rated it an average of two stars out of five. Which is an improvement, because yesterday the average was one star. Also, there are 94 comments, which can be fairly represented by the one that I copy and paste here: 4 tips for being your own career coach
Posted to: Interviewing | Learn to take advice
January 26th, 2007
Giving advice about careers is easier than taking it. People are always calling me on this — spitting my advice back to me at my most vulnerable moments. Like when I was late delivering my column five weeks in a row, and my editor said, "Remember that time you wrote about how being late is [...] How to sort through career advice
August 24th, 2006
When it comes to career advice, it seems that everyone has some. The trouble is figuring out who to listen to. Most people field advice from friends, parents, teachers and significant others. John Clark, a music producer and sound engineer, even found information technology consultants tossing advice his way. Three more ways to think about career happiness
August 22nd, 2006
If you ask most people if they like their jobs, they'll say yes. Alan Kreuger — scintillating economics professor at Princeton, whom I interviewed this morning — says that this is not because people have jobs they like, but because people have cognitive dissonance and are hard-programmed to like what they have. Jack Welch needs to play more golf
Posted to: Learn to take advice
August 18th, 2006
A book I've really liked recently was Will You Please Just F*ck Off, It's Our Turn Now: Holding Baby Boomers to Account, by Ryan Heath. It's about how baby boomers won't admit when their ideas are old. I'm moving out of New York City
August 10th, 2006
It used to be that people moved to where their job was. But where you live has a lot of impact on how happy you are. So it makes sense that today people pick a city first and then find a job, and cities maven Wendy Waters thinks this trend will increase. I will be [...] |
The farmer wants to start a blog with me. He wants to call it breadnbutter. I hear: me spread all over him. He hears: wheat and dairy cows. 2 days ago
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