What is the best single piece of career advice you have ever learned*?

*You actually have to have implemented it to success to post in this thread.

fortune favors the bold.
(aka don't be afraid to just ask for the job/raise/promotion/foot in the door)
got my first job this way back in the aughts now I own my own biz and make about 180k/yr

nobody likes a good idea. if you believe in something just go for it and don't depend on what others think. scheudenfreude is real bizbro's.

Nobody is going to pay you to do what YOU like. They pay you to do what they don't like to do or are unable to do. So unless you want to do the work that is so shitty people will pay you just so they don't have to do it, you had better develop some skills or acquire some useful capital goods (tools, intellectual property, etc.).

>>60537547 (OP)
Be self employed.

>>60537547 (OP)
Never speak honestly, everything must be part of a larger plan. Never show your full potential, everyone will see you as a threat and try to sabotage you. You will get stabbed in back, many times, by people closest to you, its just the way it is. Get rid of anyone who realize that has tried to screw you. Its a business not a social club. View it as competition for the money and top spot, because it is.

>>60538518
Cringe. Like an 18 year old who never worked a real job.

>>60538567
Take a shit in the break room biscuit tin to assert dominance if caught or sow discord among the office if not. Then buy a new tin of biscuits so they see you as a problem solver, but lace the biscuits with fluoride so they become subservient puppets. Trip your boss as he walks past your cubicle to let him know his days as top dog are numbered. If he asks why you did that, blame the carpet and undermine his authority in front of the sheeple.

>>60537547 (OP)
I never got a job. I grifted off of SEO while that lasted and got to buy crypto low in previous bear markets. Got enough to sell and life confy in my third world country. Nobody gave me any good advice ever. I think the best advice is to realize that being rich is by definition being an outlier so you need to be doing something weird compared to the median person if you wish to be rich.

invest in health and relationships first

>>60537547 (OP)
Cumming every third day gives a better jelq orgasm.

1. There is one, extremely important financial decision, which paradoxically isn't connected to money at all - it's who you marry. Because your spouse can literally make your life heaven or hell, no matter how much money you earn.
2. Be bold, don't be afraid to take risks
3. Fake it till you make it. Everyone around you fakes too.
4. Pic rel

>>60537547 (OP)
"The squeaky wheel gets the oil". If you don't ask for more money or a raise, someone else who does will get the money you could've had.

>>60537547 (OP)
The brightest star burns out the quickest. I was lucky enough to have a solid mentor in my career and after a promotion he said that to me. I was mid 20s at that point he was early 40s and already had 2 heart attacks at work. Guy was making 500k a year but was forever stuck to this one job cause his skill was specialized and not many jobs existed for it. I went on and got two more promotions and was about to reach that point and was like nah fuck all that, guy is absolutely miserable and my health has already started declining. Left the company after that and expanded my skill set elsewhere for more money.

>>60537547 (OP)
What I learned was that I should look for the easiest and fastest way to make money
Pride in your work is just something that eventually leads you to make bad financial decisions, every millionaire became a millionaire because they were lazy as hell, so I don't feel bad about betting on memes like kaka or AI stuff

>>60537547 (OP)
"You fucked up." There is no one but yourself that knows what you want. Go and get it.

>>60539734
Number 1 is absolute truth.
Be a value maker not a value taker.
You reap what you sow, tenfold.
Do what you love and gets you out of bed (most days, not all)
No one ever said on their death bed "I wish I spent more time at the office"
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and invest your earthly money and time in eternal riches where it cannot be stolen.

Trust your gut

Acting on intuition (and training it like a subconscious muscle) is absolutely key for your soul, because following it means you stuck to your beliefs and you will be very much okay with being wrong or failing with it, but you will hate yourself for not acting upon a previous intuition which later on gets validated as true

>>60537547 (OP)
ive basically ignored all career advice that ive ever received. if youre still working for a living, especially if youre 50+ years old, your advice is automatically worthless. the most worthless advice ive ever received is 'dont complain, its bad for your career' from some vietnamese bitch with cute feet. we both left the company but i was promoted to manager before her and im 100% remote while she's wageslaving hybrid.

You NetWork is your Net Worth.

>>60537547 (OP)
Pay yourself first. Somebody said this to me at my graduation party and I took it to heart. I made way more than enough money to live comfortably but I put almost 90% of my disposable income into investments rather than helping out family or buying tons of frivolous shit. It worked out extremely well over the 10 years that I worked.

>>60537547 (OP)
Aim to have both a stable, robust linear income source (i.e, high paying, in demand career) but also exposure to income sources with potential for exponential returns (scalable businesses, investments with high return potential, etc). If the exponential side fails, you'll still have the high paying baseline. And it'll help you build the capital you'll likely need quicker anyway.

>>60537547 (OP)
>work as minimum as possible
>never ever demonstrate you're a good employee (don't be a bad employee tho)

>>60545002
I learned that one too late. Thankfully the clowns that manage me seem to have forgotten my diligent phase so I can mega slack off while spending most of my time trading.

>>60544978
/thread

>>60544978
>make a ton of money but also remember to make a fuck ton of money on the side
thanks

>>60537547 (OP)
>career
>working
fucking kek @ you workcels

>>60537829
/thread

>>60537547 (OP)
Nobody goes into business for themselves to earn LESS than an employee. Go ahead and charge whatever the market will bear.

80% of your income comes from 20% of your clients. Go ahead and dump the 80% of your clients that don't pay shit.

Don't sell to the public, their standards are way too high and they'll sue you constantly or just not pay. If you have to do business, do business with businesses.

Manufacturing and retail don't pay in the US. Too much competition

You don't need a new idea to get rich. The 100th gas station will probably do better than the first 99

Most people don't have the balls to take the risks necessary to get rich. It's fine.

>>60545315
the average millionaire in the US has declared bankruptcy 2.5 times

success isn't about getting it right every time. You can fail as many times as you want, you only have to get it right once.

>>60545319
You can never make more than one man can earn in one day
unless you're willing to take money from others.
If you want more money than one person can earn, you need to employ other people and take part of their pay.

>>60545325
employing other people and taking a percentage of their pay is not theft, you are selling them the job, the business structure, the stability, and your time keeping them employed.

even if you tell people how much of their money you take, most still won't want your job

>>60539496
>I think the best advice is to realize that being rich is by definition being an outlier so you need to be doing something weird compared to the median person if you wish to be rich.

That's very true.
Because that the idea of investment/entrepreneurship courses, workshops, etc are completely retard. No one can really teach you how to make money.

>>60545330
Earn buy borrow die

the goal of business is NOT profits, it is growth

profits are taxed big and immediately
growth is barely taxed and usually much later

instead of taking profits, grow your business and borrow against it.

business is no longer about making money, it hasn't been for decades. It's about growing the business and borrowing against it. It's about avoiding taxes.

>>60545341
whenever possible take a loan and risk other people's money, not your own

>>60537547 (OP)
https://youtu.be/Y1NZCgjqfVc

>>60545315
How the fuck you do B2B if not manufacturing or retail?

>>60545361
>How the fuck you do B2B if not manufacturing or retail?
services

services are the only thing that can't be bought cheaper overseas. The competition is entirely local, or the few businesses willing to travel and they cost a fortune

>>60538518
Unironically based. Here's my additions:
>all is fair in love and war
>always know which way the wind is blowing
>keep records of everything your coworkers do
>especially anything mildly spicy you can turn against them later on
>hit 'em first and hit 'em hard
>when you strike, go for the kill
>if you do it right, they should never be able to get a job in the field ever again
>but pretend to be nice, non-threatening, unassuming
>never give any specific, interesting info about your life
>the less they have on you, the better
>never let anyone from your personal life meet anyone from your professional life
>keep a lawyer on retainer, but don't flaunt it.
>it's like a concealed weapon: nigger tier to brandish, but once shit gets real, everyone's packin', so don't get caught lacking'
>all is fair in love and war

>>60538567
Perma-entry-level CRINGE.

>>60545361
The company fixing your office plumbing almost certainly makes more money both gross and net than your favorite restaurant. Might even make more money than your office does.

>>60545398
The first rule of business is find ways to help people for money

help your clients, your workers, your vendors, and your community. They will pay you back.

if you're not helping people you are a criminal, not a businessperson.

If you show up on time, put in moderate effort, and don't lie you are already ahead of 90% of people and you can get away with a lot at work.

>>60545403
Most companies simply don't do the job

all you have to do is do the fucking job, and you'll put most of your competition right out of business

word of mouth beats hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising.

>>60545379
>>60545398
>>60545403

Got it.

>>60545432
Not necessarily aimed at you personally. I'm drinking and when I drink I love to spout useless wisdom on running a successful business. No insult intended

Place yourself at the pinch points of power. Between need and have there sits a person that has what people need. Try to be that person. Try to be the only person

it's cheaper to buy people out than compete with them

it's cheaper to sue competitors than to buy them out or compete with them

lawsuits cut both ways, invest in compliance.

>>60545436
>awsuits cut both ways, invest in compliance.
and insurance

a thousand dollars worth of insurance often pays millions in legal protections

>>60545440
the more hoops you have to jump through the fewer the competitors and the higher the price

go after work with lots of hoops.