When I was in college, I went to a lot of conferences, career advisement meetings, and coffees with internship bosses. Namely, I’ve received a lot of advice about my career and, although not all of it has been wildly useful, some of it’s really stuck wih me.
Here are some of the best pieces of career advice I’ve heard (or figured out for myself).
Now that I have my first, official full-time job that’s actually in my dream field, I keep finding myself thinking: “There’s so much career advice I dutifully wrote down and tried to follow…but a lot of it ended up being kind of useless or irrelevant. And the only purpose it served was ~stressing me out even more than I needed~!” And, looking back, I think how about nice it would’ve been to know that some bits of career advice that’s being hammered into my brain isn’t all that useful. That’s not to say I wouldn’t have followed that advice anyway, but it would’ve saved me a lot of stress to know that it is possible to make it in the journalism/media industry without having major connections. That being said, here are some pieces of career advice to ignore.
Of course, as a disclaimer, these pieces of advice can be and could’ve been invaluable to someone. And you might not want to entirely ignore it, but rather note that it’s not always relevant. This is a blog post based on my experience and experiences of some people in my life. Careers and advice aren’t one-size-fits-all. But, hey, hope this helps.
