Career advice for people with bad luck
Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice will try to draw grand, sweeping narratives and also typically fails to sufficiently factor in luck.
Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice will try to draw grand, sweeping narratives and also typically fails to sufficiently factor in luck. I worked at a struggling tech company for a couple years, and spent a lot of hours with my friends (also in similar situations and colleagues examining what we would’ve told our past selves. Below is a quick distillation of wisdom if: Your company is struggling If you get a retention offer, take…
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