Lessons from My 20s

What have I learned about my career? That everything is very unpredictable. Like what I thought I would be doing is completely not what I ended up doing. Also that it's a bit controversial. This one. What I learned is I shouldn't compromise. I think that's actually a really big one. Some people have this belief where they would say, "Oh, like let me do this job because I want to make money, right? Where like, oh, like this is probably the correct thing that I should do, so I'm going to do that. like do the correct thing because there's no way that I can do something that I really enjoy and also make money and survive at the same time. I don't believe in that. I do believe that you have to be smart about it in the sense I also don't think it's the best choice to become like a starving artist kind of situation and then just like grind it out. I think what you can do is have that as a goal but still build up what we call like identity capital which is things that you build up, skill sets that you build up when you're younger and over time you can start pivoting towards something that is more worthwhile for you. But I also don't believe just the settle for something kind of situation. Yeah, I personally don't believe that. I'm a very greedy person. Like I don't believe in doing things I don't believe in. I would rather work hard towards something because for me that's much more motivating and inspirational than just settling with something I don't care