I think it’s important to strategically job hop every 2-3 years. I worked on a system integration with a director at another company earlier this year. The director got laid off a week before Thanksgiving! And the guy was with the company for 20 years! Loyalty doesn’t pay
2-4 years in a role. Your next role or promotion can be with the same company but consider not spending more than 8 years in same company. You are more valuable with experience in several companies and will earn more.
If they pass you up on any raise or promotion, plan your exit strategy. Start looking at other companies and positions. They will never promote you. Also, save your money as if you’re getting laid off tomorrow. Building up that emergency fund will give you cushion and feel less stressed about the future of your career and give you options.
My personal career advice to young people is do what you have to do to get the entry-level phase of your career out of the way as soon as possible. The money starts coming after a few years experience.
Also very important guys don’t make your career your identity, nobody cares what your job title is only that your making legitimate legal income. The head school janitor makes around the same as a mid level cpa. My former boss with overtime made almost the same amount of money as physician.
Honestly, we needed to know it when we turned 20, I guess it's never too late, but the mindset that the job market forces us to adopt is oppressive, some people can adapt to it at a younger age than others.
Corporate America doesn't have a "what have you done for me lately" mentality. It is "what will you do for me tomorrow?" Even what you're accomplishing right now won't matter if the business feels that work won't be necessary tomorrow.
Even if you're a star performer today, while the company is making record profits and you make a presentation about how you helped benefit the company, you will still be canned because the CEO will want more profits (aka. not paying you anymore).
I am hitting mid-50s and I am still employable. My advice, just find a niche where you see the least of a competition and excel in it. Other secret, keep learning and share all your knowledge with youngsters.
I agree. I have four different teaching credentials and one of them got me a position that is niche and that no one ever leaves. There are about 102 of us in these positions in a large district and the only reason people leave is to retire.
@@p.1019I do not know your situation. In my field, you can't compete with years of experience. When I share my knowledge, I get respect from people I am sharing my knowledge with. That gets me a feedback that keeps me employed.
Great advice! Too bad I'm in my 40s now. 😂 I made lots of job mistakes in my 20s and 30s, and now I'm paying for them. Hopefully, those in their 20s and 30s will really listen to this.
Yeah, I’m 47 and I also did the same as you did. I decided to learn a new career in college and I bought his program to practice on getting a new job after I graduate.
I'm 40 soon and starting my own micro biz in January 2025. I'm tired of being just a cog in the system, giving my all to companies that give me crumbs. I'm choosing me! ❤🎉
This video is real talk. I'm in my 40s now and can tell you from experience that everything Bryan said in this video is 10,000% correct (hyperbole, I know 😂😂)! This is stuff no one tells you in high school or college. I was naive in my 20s, believing I was irreplaceable, that I would work the same place until I retire. But those experiences I had taught me differently. The biggest expense any company has is labor, in other words employees. In the end, employers exist to make money/profit for themselves first, and they will always put the needs of the business ahead of yours (even if the boss likes you). This is not bashing employers because It's not personal, it's just business. So when you put your needs first, it's also not personal, just business 😉.
Yeah, well, I'm also 40 and decided to join the military in my 20s. The treatment I've gotten since getting out isn't exactly something I can easily dismiss as "just business".
The idea of a full time job plus building a side business is unrealistic and for sure your family and people who care for you will pay the price. Plus your boss will notice that you’re not all there.
I was “lazy” in my 20’s…graduated in the worst economic recession after the Great Depression. I applied to literally HUNDREDS of jobs in my field and employers literally had hundreds of applicants for each position. It doesn’t seem much better today. It helps to have rich parents, because people with rich parents seem to have better, more stable careers.
I traveled and partied in my 20s and didn't go to college until early 30s and got my degree at 35. It worked out because they treat me like I am 10 to 15 years younger than I am, since they can't ask age, but they can ask year graduated. Plus I had an amazing time in my 20s when I was young and fit enough to enjoy it.
I've worked alongside the kids of numerous company Directors and VPs. They were just handed their job right out of college. I spent two years after college trying to find a biochemistry position. My career is great right now, but it's ridiculously unfair what some people have handed to them.
@gauloise6442 interesting and yet awesome to do the near polar opposite of what everyone thinks you should do.. granted waiting to go to school until you're quite certain what you want to study or quickly pivot to the relevant field is the smart way to avoid being saddled with loans (if you didn't have savings or an employer partially/fully reimburse)
On the topic of your boss not noticing your hours: *DOCUMENT YOUR SUCCESSES* Seriously this was such a game change. Document every single success - it can come in so handy it’s crazy.
@TheBigJohny Just every time you do something especially well at your job, especially if you can find a way to attach it to numbers (I did 'x' amount in 'y' time, or this helped save 'X' amount) and write it down, either on a piece of paper or computer, etc. Like a journal entry. It's great to look back at to boost your self esteem and wonderful for employee reviews. Also, when you get a new job-- Save a copy of the job description so you can keep track of extra tasks and use it to argue (assertively, not aggressively) for a raise.
It's always a good idea to also sign up to job board alerts, even if you are not looking. It will help you keep up to date on the skills in demand and how much you are worth.
Definitely feeling the career mistake. Education and interest is polar opposite from what field im in now. Hit my ceiling based on software competency vs knowing the fundamentals to grow/get promoted. Market is either non existent or qualification requirements are too high for me. While I’m still paid well and moderately secure, the passion is gone. Makes me wish I did more internships or didn’t take that first job out of college.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff Yeah, unfortunate for me as well, I took a job fairly fast out of college but found it very hard to transition out of customer service roles...took me years...
I worked for a tech consulting company for 2 years after 7 years of college study. I met and sometimes exceeded expectations. What do I get in return? A meager 3% salary increase and still exempt from overtime pay. Folks, you only have one life to live.
I was irreplaceable, I built internal others were using but I was maintaining, no one else knew the code base and it was testing automation software so thousands of tests that aren’t compatible with any other software. Yet I still didn’t know my worth. I worked in an enterprise from 2014 to 2022. It was all thanks to God and a colleague (that left before me) that I got a new job that paid me 2x my previous salary, I’m still there. Tech lead is the level I wanted to reach working for someone else, anything beyond that was diminishing returns.
I agree with you with jobs will get by without you. However, years ago, I worked at Sears for a couple of months. I didn't like the job and I quit that. Now Sears has gone backruplt and no longer here.
If the employer is future faking about all the great opportunities waiting for you, start looking for a new job now. If they thought you were that wonderful, they would be seeking out more responsibilities and leadership roles for you now. They like you doing the grunt work well that no one else wants to do.
Your LinkedIn course helped me attract recruiters and land a role in Big Tech at 24 years old. Thank you for sharing these hard truths and teaching us to be the CEO of our careers!
That’s good! I didn’t start my corporate career until I was 29 and that’s because I was a teacher before that. Playing catch up that’s for sure! I should have left teaching sooner! Happy there are resources like this to help people out! I wish I had them when I first started lol
@@StitchFae Most mid to large sized companies have recruiters, but that's only 10% of the power of LinkedIn. The course focuses on how to use the platform to stand out to hiring authorities, beyond even the recruiter.
Can you specifically talk about the topic on marketing ourselves? Especially for socially anxious introverts. Because that's our worst nightmare. Please help us socially anxious introverts.
This video gave me IMMENSE anxiety lol.... I now feel like everything in my career has been a mistake.. and reinforced my constant feeling that I'm about to be laid off lol... which then makes me want to apply for another job so I won't be laid off, but then that's a mistake because of job hopping!...... soooo either way we're doomed lol
After watching your channel, I started sending out my portfolio / cv to potential companies that I am trying to collaborate with possibly - I got a lot of nos - but there were a few maybes - but it got their attention and am meeting with a few prestigious companies for business lunch chats next month!
Truth you are a headcount. I worked at a place where I was only one who closed the books and did the budget and forecast. I was last hire in (4 years) first out with a headcount cut. Hurt my ego really bad. But you learn to know you are not dispensable. I worked MANY hours there, it did not matter when people in corporate are states away who made the decision. When I never let it fail they thought anyone can do the position. Guess what they did, we are all replaceable.
8:04 I wish to emphasize this point 1000 times. At the time, it didn't feel like a big deal to postpone with switching career path as current option seemed good enough. Only i my 30s have I realized the disaster I have brought upon myself that takes years to fix, let alone the lost profits from the missed opportunities. The best comparison I could find is the compound interest but the other way around. I wish it were actually painful to make those seemingly small mistakes so I could have taken action sooner.
If I were in my 20s ( I am far from it now) I would try to start my own business, definitely, corporations are brutal, they will chew you up and spit you away like there is no tomorrow, believe me, loyalty does not pay off, experience does not pay off even with degrees and certifications
Sorry but the truth is, even if you aren't lazy in your 20s and 30s (been working since I was 15) it's still twice as hard in your 40s. I'm 48 and got beat out because "the other guy had more experience". Yeah, I guess.
For those of us that started working in the online era- late 1990s to 2000's, it's never been easy to get a good paying job, not having enough experience or skills has always been a wall preventing us from getting hired. We never had it easy. That said, we need to push hard if making a career change or taking on entry level jobs to just get in the door so we can have an income. We've known the reality of the 6 month-3 year job search from the 2008-2015 recession/jobless recovery. Bryan gives good advice, but he sometimes can be too negative.
The best advice that ANY young person can accept and take to heart is to listen when older people offer advice. Not just anyone, of course, but trusted people that have achieved success and are trying to help you out. Just as Brian is doing in this video, they are trying to help you out. They are sharing their mistakes with you so that you can hopefully avoid them. Every young person that has ever lived thinks that they are smarter than everyone else. You aren't. Listen to those that are trying to help you.
Doing something your truely passionate about is always of value. People will notice it. Im a cdl a driver. I drove box trucks for many years before getting my license. While obtaining my license i met some one who only wanted the license for the money. I never saw some one struggle so much to get a license in my life. I feel for them but if your heart aint in it... it gets infinitely more difficult. They started schooling a month before me and i still got my license before they did.
I met a girl in college who was a fellow accounting major and when I asked her why she'd chosen accounting, she revealed that her mom and dad were paying her way through school but (as she put it) "only if I get something practical." Last I heard, she ended up marrying a CPA and she's a stay-at-home mom-in that "my kids are my life and I couldn't be happier" kind of way. Could've saved her parents a good 50 thousand bucks there.
I would add another one - treat your cv as advertisement document. It's not your autobiography and doesn't have to represent everything historically accurately. I know that this may sound unethical but in my book - as long as you can do the job, I don't really care how you marketed yourself to get through the door. Examples: 1. I struggled a lot to get my first job after I graduated from university, even though I worked on multiple personal projects and had well above entry level skills, but I struggled even to get interviews. I pivoted and created a fake 1 year experience (by referencing personal project I worked on) and interviews started flowing. I did well on them (since I actually had the experience) and landed a first job quite fast and was competent at it. 2. After 5-6 years of job hopping every year (in order to get 30-50 percent bumps each time) it has started to bite me in the ass. Interviewers started treating me as a redflag, at this point industry expects a 7 year senior to have worked in 2-3 companies during that period, not 7. And they don't care that you may have contracted in half of them and constant switching was just a nature of contracting. I solved that by modifying my CV yet again - placing 3-4 projects under umbrella employment of an agency I got them referred to me. Again, it's not an accurate representation of how it went down but in the end of the day it gets me through the door and I have the experience necessary. In the end it's all about marketing and being honest about your skills.
I've tried everything and at this point I'm just going to wait for a job to fall in my lap. If someone wants to make me work they will. Otherwise I'll sit here until I'm thrown out.
The whole part about setting yourself up for retirement has just never resonated with me. I'm approaching 50 and have always assumed I'll never retire, like my dad and his dad before him. (My dad's almost 80 and still works full time and plans on never retiring)
All good points. The only thing I will say that is that even companies that do not have unlimited PTO are not paying for unused days now. My company is one of them.
As my late grandfather said in my 20s after coming out of college is that having a job will take many twists and turns and many opportunities will arise in the future. May be I should've listened to him a little better after learning that you shouldn't work for the same company too long just as much as you shouldn't job hop frequently. Plus employers could easily let you go on a whim, even if you've been working with them for some 30 years and getting virtually nothing from them upon leaving.
If you can figure out a way to save money in your 20's & 30's to create a nest egg invested in the market then you can create your own income stream. Even if that investment income is modest you still have more power & more importantly freedom to make careful career decisions. There use to be loyalty towards long time employees. That stopped existing years ago at this point. I'd rather have my freedom with a meager investment income than deal with corporate hacks who care nothing about my wellbeing. I learned a valuable lesson the hard way spending almost 13 years of my life with one company having been overlooked for management positions. I just wasn't "OUTGOING" enough. It didn't matter I had the intelligence. All that mattered was being part of the clique which I was not part of. Introverts in the workplace are often times overlooked & misunderstood by ignorant people.
Thank you for imparting this wisdom on the next generation. I was lucky enough to have been let go from a job that I was way overqualified for in my early 20s, and might have taken way too long to upgrade if not for that motivation!
I don't necessarily agree with this. My brother works for a big bank as a lawyer dealing with trusts, wills and investment and he has been in the same job for years. I think he is fine with it. He also teaches law at night. The secret is the type of job you have. Consider union, city, county, state jobs. I do agree that they would replace you in two seconds so look out for yourself. I also agree that you should have more than one way to make money.
If and/or when you're able to pay off a debt or all your bills it can be very tempting to quit your job, so if you really wanted to leave make sure you have a good enough safety net in place.
I'm also in my 40s. The biggest advice I'd give to 20-30-somethings is "settling down can wait." I worked as a freelance writer, a casino wiseguy, graveyard shift at a 7-Eleven, went to college to ride out the Great Recession, and as a bit of a wanderer traveling across the US and Canada for fun. I settled down and got a "real job" shortly after I turned 40 and now as I push 50 I'm in a steady role in accounting, which is what that college degree got me. I'm "the guy with the stories"...but I'm also the guy who's seen everything and comes up with the unorthodox solution to the problem. That's my value add. My boss's boss asks my opinion on decisions because he knows I won't just be a yes man, I'll tell him what my unique experience in life has taught me. And the best part? If I don't make it to old age, I won't have spent my entire life working and waiting to retire in order to have fun in life. Go out and become interesting. It's worth more than money.
Good advice, far too many people want to get married right after college, plop down in the suburbs, and call it a life. No interesting life experiences, no war stories.
I love being an art teacher, but my major was English and teaching English is a more open avenue. As much as it might hurt me, emotionally, I think I will teach English.
Take a minute to really consider. Seriously, think about i; teaching English is horrible. I have been doing it for years now and I'm trying to get out of it. Your students (young or old) would have never read a book, they are going to be constantly on their phones. They don't like writing. And that's the tip of the iceberg.
Move to SE Asia, that is where the jobs are for that education attainment. America is cooked, only get a job in the US for health insurance that is about it.
6:22 about being too reserved: What if you have NO common topics of discussion with your coworkers? I'm seen as too quiet but 100% of their conversation is either about drinking, partying, sex, relationships or cars/motorcycles. I'm not exaggerating. I don't drink, I don't party, I'm an aromantic asexual and I know nothing about vehicles (I don't even have a driver's license yet). How do I insert myself into their convo? (And honestly it's not the kind of talk that I'd like to participate in...) They're not interested in the topics of my interest, they have a different music style, and if I keep it professional and try to talk about work related topics they clearly don't like it. Even mundane conversation starters get stale quickly due to this disparity: "Hey, what did you do on your weekend?" "Drank my ass of" "Oh. [anything I say here will be interpreted as dorky because I'm playing it by ear]" "Hmhumm..." If they're feeling particularly polite, they might ask "And you?". My response is "did some chores and played videogames". An uninterested "oh" will follow and the convo dies. Just a relationship where I find those people to be so incredibly boring and they most likely think the same. I like being and remaining employed, however. Do you have any suggestions?
Say “did some work around the house, played video-games. Do you game at all?” If answer is yes than ask what game, etc. if answer is no than ask about their weekend activities. Make the conversation about them, people love to talk about themselves
I was laid off, and they lied to the state saying it was performance. one problem that the state slammed them on... they gave me a PERFORMANCE bonus 2 months before. They wanted avoid wrongful termination, and issued me severance for a year. I was told they didnt want the investor(s) and/or state to know they were having $$$ issues.
I got laid off when Covid hit, but they fabricated a reason-"inappropriate comments on social media." It took me four months of working through an understaffed, overworked state unemployment office, tirelessly following up week after week in the middle of a freaking pandemic, all the while kept from homelessness solely by an eviction moratorium, before I finally won my case (only because the company failed to respond to a state request for information in a 60-day window-did they hope I'd give up the fight?) and got four months of back unemployment in one lump sum that let me get square with everyone to whom I owed money. There is nothing scummier than a company laying people off without wanting the state to know they're laying people off.
Great analysis! I am totally convinced that if you are really ambitious, you need to be making that switch to the FastTrack at around age 26-27. This means that you need to be a driven workaholic for the first 3 or 4 years of your career in order to make that jump out of the 'average crowd'. You can relax later once you are on your way!
Depending on your organisation or career goals. If you are young I would recommend trying to get as much experience as you can. For example, customer service posts can be horrible but they are good experience in the long term. Use this to gain more customer service experience and then try a short stint in somewhere like a call centre (short period). This will help you gain more experience. Hopefully you will gain both experience dealing with people face to face as well as digitally (two sides of the same coin lol). From these you can gain communication skills, patience and the ability to deal with difficult situations. I'm hoping you will work towards gaining some qualifications like a degree etc and keep researching opportunities for after graduating. Focus on gaining work placements at university and research popular graduate recruiter's and see if they offer a strong promote from within culture. Should you get a place with said recruiter, I wouldn't be complacent and try to spend at most one year at each grade as you try to gain promotion to the next grade and so on. Opinions are my own. Have a good day reader.
Oh my good, this is the worst piece of advice I have ever heard. With those sorts of jobs you never get anywhere. If you work at a call centre you will never meet the offspring of the wealthy, influential and the powerful , because they don't have to do those sorts of jobs. You are effectively learning to be ' a loser', to be giving your 'blood, sweat and tears' for very little in exchange. I would tell someone in their late teens and early 20s to get an education in something solid (as an insurance policy) and then if your family situation permits (meaning, you can live at home with your parents, without paying rent or worry about getting a mortgage or other responsibilities) do internships in places that would get you closer to your dream job. Take risks, try to do what is difficult when you are young.
*Boomer in their 20s* : I have a house, a wife, kids and I've been my whole working career at the same company. I'm depressed. *Gen z in their 20s* : I have *no* house, *no* gf, *no* kids and I've unemployed for the last 7 months. They say my life is much easier.
Don't look to the news media to categorize yourself because what they say is BS. Most college grads have a hard time finding a career job and end up having to take more training like graduate school or accept entry level jobs just to have an income. It's always been that way since the end of World War II. Unless you have a STEM type of degree, it's always been hard to get a career or keep one whether you're in 20s, 30s, etc, especially since Internet job search and hiring started.
FYI 50% of all boomers never climbed an economic ladder. Read the book Generations by Jean Twenge. In addition we were boosted by the economy in WWII and our parents ability to use the GI Bill.
@@pedromarques9267 generational jealousy or insults is based on propaganda from the news media. No generation has had it easy to find a career since the internet job search/hiring system started in the late 1990's. It doesn't matter what generational label you want to use for yourself, it's hard to get hired anywhere. HR so called experts write job descriptions demanding obscene amounts of experience that no one has.
So... question for you. Obviously we can't change what is already done. But for someone in their 40s who has been in the same job position for many years, what would you advise they do now to improve their situation, given that they can't go back in time and change things now. I'm asking for a "friend." lol
Regarding asking for a promotion, I wouldn't do it. You'll be the next one on the chopping block because you have now labeled yourself as "dissatisfied". If they wanted you promote you, they already would have. Don't rock the boat.
I think there's a time and a place. If the company promotes from within and they put an internal job posting in, gunning for that promotion shows that you're ambitious and looking to grow within the organization. Doing it when there's not a position open above you, that'll get you put on the egotistical "clubhouse cancer" list.
Its all about how you approach it, if you ask what you need to do to get to x role or position its clear you want more without directly asking. Occasionally the situation allows you to directly ask for a promotion too.
@@pentoo988 Bad idea. Middle managers are very intimidated by strategies like this. They will take your interest in a higher position as a direct threat and terminate you.
From my experience, the "asserting yourself in certain situations" translates the same way as a handsome guy making a brazen gesture at a female, versus a not very good looking one. The good looking guy will be called a "cheeky chappie" and she will be receptive to it, maybe even reward him for it (called the Halo effect). The not very looking guy will be labelled a "creep" and HR will be calling him in for a chat. In business terms, if they just don't like you, they'll label your input as "negative", so I always thought it best to just keep quiet, even in situations where it is patently obvious that the host is being disingenuous. The people who are allowed to express themselves and their opinions were always forever thus, without judgement. You can always tell by just a quick scan of a department who is already pre-selected to progress in the organisation and who isn't. I agree though about the assertiveness part and not allowing yourself to be walked over, definitely not. Would also add that the people who got the office game early in their 20's were often mentored and definitely were not the hardest workers, they just navigated the workplace alot smarter and knew how to take credit for other people's work or ideas. It's cerebral warfare out there.
If only I could've told my 30 year old self at the time I joined a union, I would've told him that joining a union won't necessarily make your job (or life) better as your boss can tell you that they're going to hold you to an "unfair" higher standard, which could easily mean they want to make your job more difficult in an attempt to push you out.
I've got a good question about a job in a company thats growing (rapidly?) versus a company that's stagnating and how long you should stay there for. Currently i'm in a job at an amazing comfortable company thats growing but i am worried that staying there for more than a few years can stagnate my career and salary growth, especially since i am planning to go more into the direction of specialization rather than management.
what advice do you have for someone that is born deaf and has been software coding for 30 years, degree was from a college that is no longer around (GMI), and using systems that just don't exist any longer. How do you avoid going into education debt to get certified, which then means you are then 60 years old with a massive 100K student debt and the same unemployment problem. Being the CEO is that you cannot 100% forecast the future such as how AI will impact what you do. Saying, learn it, master it, will not get you to the next level. What do people with disabilities or being ugly do if you have to be constantly marketing yourself.
Very rarely are the chances of say, you working a dustpan and broom a long limo pulls up with an executive coming out to offer a good/better job opportunity because he likes the way you operate the broom and giving you his business card. Best bet is just to file that under "almost never." LOL
Just be yourself, you know what's good for you. Don't listen to advise from 40 years olds. I regreted every decision I took following someone else's advices. Every generation has its ups and downs.
Interesting....over the weekend I saw a woman I worked with years ago.. I told her NOT to accept a management position as this company has designated the credit manager position as the scape goat when ideas go awry....
I worked a job that didn't hold up to any standards. I did my best and went above the standards. When I started to question why others were allowed to do terrible work, management basically was like "I am here to just get my paycheck." So I quit. Womp womp.
when you say a career mistake, what are we talking about here? Like if you're better at software but ended up doing teaching for a few years early on in your career?
My employer is on It’s six year with a private equity firm and just switched over to unlimited PTO for 2025, I have a layoffs will be coming, what do you think?
Have you ever came across the scenarilo where someone is an over performer but they're seen as a threat not an asset? So when they get performance reviews, the accomplishments are ignored or trivialized and managers/peers etc give rather vague and non-specific negative f/b? What's your advice on how to deal with this?
@@AshtasticAcrobat that's unlikely. This is usually the opinion of someone actually doing quite badly. But looking for excuses to blame others for their failures
"Nobody else is going to pull you along"... what about women trying to have a child? I think we as a culture owe them the room to do that without worrying about employment or a partner. Maybe there's a reason why more women than ever in our culture are holding off having children or not having them at all.
impart* you impart wisdom, you don't "depart" it. That being said, I've already fallen way behind my peer group, which is something you bring up in the video.
Hi Bryan. I've been following your channel since your early beginings and this is the first comment I'm leaving. I just want to thank you for putting out such amazing useful content for all of us. So be on RUclips or on LinkedIn, you are a gem of a human being, your words are always so encouraging. Know that just by being you, you truly make the world a better place. Blessings from France to you and your loved ones. Merry Xmas and have a great 2025. 🎄🎅
This guy just cannot shake off the corporate world. He claims to be "on our side" (whatever that means) but he still seems to hold onto what his corporate overlords want to hear. Once a recruiter always a recruiter.
I do have a question that you can talk about on your channel. There are many scientific studies that say that humans cannot multitask. Yet, there are still jobs that require multitasking. I'm wondering why is that?
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You look sick. Your left eye wants to stay closed. In your older videos
your eyes don't do this.
@jersenguard May just be the lighting. I'm feeling pretty okay, but thank you for the concern.
You inspire me. Keep up the great work.
I think it’s important to strategically job hop every 2-3 years. I worked on a system integration with a director at another company earlier this year. The director got laid off a week before Thanksgiving! And the guy was with the company for 20 years! Loyalty doesn’t pay
2-4 years in a role. Your next role or promotion can be with the same company but consider not spending more than 8 years in same company. You are more valuable with experience in several companies and will earn more.
"You are a line on a spreadsheet" - best assessment of professional life
Sad, but true.
@@gautamsinha5998 wish we were lines; the truth is we are cells…
Lets work like it. Instead of acting like its our company.
If they pass you up on any raise or promotion, plan your exit strategy. Start looking at other companies and positions. They will never promote you. Also, save your money as if you’re getting laid off tomorrow. Building up that emergency fund will give you cushion and feel less stressed about the future of your career and give you options.
Especially if it’s repeated. There are cases where you’re legitimately not ready.
Yesssss, save your money like you're going to get laid off tomorrow. Wise words my friend!
My personal career advice to young people is do what you have to do to get the entry-level phase of your career out of the way as soon as possible. The money starts coming after a few years experience.
Also very important guys don’t make your career your identity, nobody cares what your job title is only that your making legitimate legal income. The head school janitor makes around the same as a mid level cpa. My former boss with overtime made almost the same amount of money as physician.
i just turned 30 2 days ago and this is exactly what i need to know. thanks
Honestly, we needed to know it when we turned 20, I guess it's never too late, but the mindset that the job market forces us to adopt is oppressive, some people can adapt to it at a younger age than others.
You're so lucky. I was so stupid
@@hidesbehindpseudonym1920we should start knowing once we turn 17
Corporate America doesn't have a "what have you done for me lately" mentality. It is "what will you do for me tomorrow?" Even what you're accomplishing right now won't matter if the business feels that work won't be necessary tomorrow.
Even if you're a star performer today, while the company is making record profits and you make a presentation about how you helped benefit the company, you will still be canned because the CEO will want more profits (aka. not paying you anymore).
“The person who gets the job isn’t the person who is the most qualified, but the person who sells themself the best.
I am hitting mid-50s and I am still employable.
My advice, just find a niche where you see the least of a competition and excel in it.
Other secret, keep learning and share all your knowledge with youngsters.
I would say keep learning, but don't share your knowledge. The youngsters, (at least the ones I have around me now) are your competition.
Completely agree on finding a niche and excelling at it.
I agree. I have four different teaching credentials and one of them got me a position that is niche and that no one ever leaves. There are about 102 of us in these positions in a large district and the only reason people leave is to retire.
@@p.1019I do not know your situation. In my field, you can't compete with years of experience. When I share my knowledge, I get respect from people I am sharing my knowledge with. That gets me a feedback that keeps me employed.
Share your knowledge for a fee or side gig as a mentor / industry consultant. Agree with the niche part.
Great advice! Too bad I'm in my 40s now. 😂 I made lots of job mistakes in my 20s and 30s, and now I'm paying for them. Hopefully, those in their 20s and 30s will really listen to this.
40s is still young. Its not too late.
41 here. Made so many mistakes and yes. We are only a number. Even places that I was integral to keep around, well I'm not there anymore
Yeah, I’m 47 and I also did the same as you did. I decided to learn a new career in college and I bought his program to practice on getting a new job after I graduate.
I'm 40 soon and starting my own micro biz in January 2025. I'm tired of being just a cog in the system, giving my all to companies that give me crumbs. I'm choosing me! ❤🎉
This video is real talk. I'm in my 40s now and can tell you from experience that everything Bryan said in this video is 10,000% correct (hyperbole, I know 😂😂)! This is stuff no one tells you in high school or college.
I was naive in my 20s, believing I was irreplaceable, that I would work the same place until I retire. But those experiences I had taught me differently. The biggest expense any company has is labor, in other words employees. In the end, employers exist to make money/profit for themselves first, and they will always put the needs of the business ahead of yours (even if the boss likes you).
This is not bashing employers because It's not personal, it's just business. So when you put your needs first, it's also not personal, just business 😉.
Yeah, well, I'm also 40 and decided to join the military in my 20s. The treatment I've gotten since getting out isn't exactly something I can easily dismiss as "just business".
The idea of a full time job plus building a side business is unrealistic and for sure your family and people who care for you will pay the price.
Plus your boss will notice that you’re not all there.
I was “lazy” in my 20’s…graduated in the worst economic recession after the Great Depression. I applied to literally HUNDREDS of jobs in my field and employers literally had hundreds of applicants for each position. It doesn’t seem much better today. It helps to have rich parents, because people with rich parents seem to have better, more stable careers.
I traveled and partied in my 20s and didn't go to college until early 30s and got my degree at 35. It worked out because they treat me like I am 10 to 15 years younger than I am, since they can't ask age, but they can ask year graduated. Plus I had an amazing time in my 20s when I was young and fit enough to enjoy it.
I've worked alongside the kids of numerous company Directors and VPs. They were just handed their job right out of college. I spent two years after college trying to find a biochemistry position. My career is great right now, but it's ridiculously unfair what some people have handed to them.
@gauloise6442 interesting and yet awesome to do the near polar opposite of what everyone thinks you should do.. granted waiting to go to school until you're quite certain what you want to study or quickly pivot to the relevant field is the smart way to avoid being saddled with loans (if you didn't have savings or an employer partially/fully reimburse)
On the topic of your boss not noticing your hours: *DOCUMENT YOUR SUCCESSES*
Seriously this was such a game change. Document every single success - it can come in so handy it’s crazy.
how? you got right idea. can you explain more?
@TheBigJohny Just every time you do something especially well at your job, especially if you can find a way to attach it to numbers (I did 'x' amount in 'y' time, or this helped save 'X' amount) and write it down, either on a piece of paper or computer, etc. Like a journal entry. It's great to look back at to boost your self esteem and wonderful for employee reviews. Also, when you get a new job-- Save a copy of the job description so you can keep track of extra tasks and use it to argue (assertively, not aggressively) for a raise.
It's always a good idea to also sign up to job board alerts, even if you are not looking. It will help you keep up to date on the skills in demand and how much you are worth.
Definitely feeling the career mistake. Education and interest is polar opposite from what field im in now. Hit my ceiling based on software competency vs knowing the fundamentals to grow/get promoted. Market is either non existent or qualification requirements are too high for me. While I’m still paid well and moderately secure, the passion is gone. Makes me wish I did more internships or didn’t take that first job out of college.
The first job out of school sets the tone for the rest of your career. And most people don't realize it when they take it.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff Yeah, unfortunate for me as well, I took a job fairly fast out of college but found it very hard to transition out of customer service roles...took me years...
I worked for a tech consulting company for 2 years after 7 years of college study. I met and sometimes exceeded expectations. What do I get in return? A meager 3% salary increase and still exempt from overtime pay. Folks, you only have one life to live.
I'm 24, and I was laid off last year and although I kept getting interviews I still fell short. But I ain't giving up.
I was irreplaceable, I built internal others were using but I was maintaining, no one else knew the code base and it was testing automation software so thousands of tests that aren’t compatible with any other software. Yet I still didn’t know my worth. I worked in an enterprise from 2014 to 2022. It was all thanks to God and a colleague (that left before me) that I got a new job that paid me 2x my previous salary, I’m still there. Tech lead is the level I wanted to reach working for someone else, anything beyond that was diminishing returns.
I agree with you with jobs will get by without you. However, years ago, I worked at Sears for a couple of months. I didn't like the job and I quit that. Now Sears has gone backruplt and no longer here.
Timed the market 😂
I guess they couldn’t get by without you after all! 😂
If the employer is future faking about all the great opportunities waiting for you, start looking for a new job now. If they thought you were that wonderful, they would be seeking out more responsibilities and leadership roles for you now. They like you doing the grunt work well that no one else wants to do.
Your LinkedIn course helped me attract recruiters and land a role in Big Tech at 24 years old. Thank you for sharing these hard truths and teaching us to be the CEO of our careers!
That’s good! I didn’t start my corporate career until I was 29 and that’s because I was a teacher before that. Playing catch up that’s for sure! I should have left teaching sooner! Happy there are resources like this to help people out! I wish I had them when I first started lol
Glad it's working well for you! I'm quite proud of Unlocking LinkedIn and put a lot of effort into it, so it's good to know it's having an impact.
@@ALifeAfterLayoffwill this course help for someone in a creative field like film making? Do they have recruiters?
@@StitchFae Most mid to large sized companies have recruiters, but that's only 10% of the power of LinkedIn. The course focuses on how to use the platform to stand out to hiring authorities, beyond even the recruiter.
@ ok cool thanks for the response!
Can you specifically talk about the topic on marketing ourselves? Especially for socially anxious introverts. Because that's our worst nightmare. Please help us socially anxious introverts.
This video gave me IMMENSE anxiety lol.... I now feel like everything in my career has been a mistake.. and reinforced my constant feeling that I'm about to be laid off lol... which then makes me want to apply for another job so I won't be laid off, but then that's a mistake because of job hopping!...... soooo either way we're doomed lol
Career strategy is your best friend here.
After watching your channel, I started sending out my portfolio / cv to potential companies that I am trying to collaborate with possibly - I got a lot of nos - but there were a few maybes - but it got their attention and am meeting with a few prestigious companies for business lunch chats next month!
Truth you are a headcount. I worked at a place where I was only one who closed the books and did the budget and forecast. I was last hire in (4 years) first out with a headcount cut. Hurt my ego really bad. But you learn to know you are not dispensable. I worked MANY hours there, it did not matter when people in corporate are states away who made the decision. When I never let it fail they thought anyone can do the position. Guess what they did, we are all replaceable.
8:04 I wish to emphasize this point 1000 times. At the time, it didn't feel like a big deal to postpone with switching career path as current option seemed good enough. Only i my 30s have I realized the disaster I have brought upon myself that takes years to fix, let alone the lost profits from the missed opportunities. The best comparison I could find is the compound interest but the other way around. I wish it were actually painful to make those seemingly small mistakes so I could have taken action sooner.
what kind of small mistakes are we talking about here?
Welp, I've already made quite a few of these mistakes, including not working my hardest in my 20s :(
Bout to send the big boss an email requesting a promotion and raise because I run two projects when others barely struggle with one. Prayers! Lmfao
I would rethink doing that right now.
@@bamboojenkins8 Worst he says is no. Already sent, need to know if my hard work is pointless and I need to pursue other opportunities.
If I were in my 20s ( I am far from it now) I would try to start my own business, definitely, corporations are brutal, they will chew you up and spit you away like there is no tomorrow, believe me, loyalty does not pay off, experience does not pay off even with degrees and certifications
Sorry but the truth is, even if you aren't lazy in your 20s and 30s (been working since I was 15) it's still twice as hard in your 40s. I'm 48 and got beat out because "the other guy had more experience". Yeah, I guess.
this
For those of us that started working in the online era- late 1990s to 2000's, it's never been easy to get a good paying job, not having enough experience or skills has always been a wall preventing us from getting hired. We never had it easy. That said, we need to push hard if making a career change or taking on entry level jobs to just get in the door so we can have an income. We've known the reality of the 6 month-3 year job search from the 2008-2015 recession/jobless recovery. Bryan gives good advice, but he sometimes can be too negative.
They will always have an excuse. I am sure the reality is "the other guy works cheaper"
The best advice that ANY young person can accept and take to heart is to listen when older people offer advice. Not just anyone, of course, but trusted people that have achieved success and are trying to help you out. Just as Brian is doing in this video, they are trying to help you out. They are sharing their mistakes with you so that you can hopefully avoid them. Every young person that has ever lived thinks that they are smarter than everyone else. You aren't. Listen to those that are trying to help you.
Doing something your truely passionate about is always of value. People will notice it. Im a cdl a driver. I drove box trucks for many years before getting my license. While obtaining my license i met some one who only wanted the license for the money. I never saw some one struggle so much to get a license in my life. I feel for them but if your heart aint in it... it gets infinitely more difficult. They started schooling a month before me and i still got my license before they did.
I met a girl in college who was a fellow accounting major and when I asked her why she'd chosen accounting, she revealed that her mom and dad were paying her way through school but (as she put it) "only if I get something practical."
Last I heard, she ended up marrying a CPA and she's a stay-at-home mom-in that "my kids are my life and I couldn't be happier" kind of way. Could've saved her parents a good 50 thousand bucks there.
@@SimuLord Women have a special super-power us men don't have its called simp-o-vision. Men don't get that.
@@SimuLordlikely the 50k for accounting degree helped her meet a CPA and be happy so it was worth it!
Brian.. Thank You for LOOKING OUT for the everyday worker ..Enjoy the holiday season and the BEST in 25
Thanks, you too!
@ALifeAfterLayoff Always Brian... Thank You
Yes, yes, yes get a side hustle to fight back.
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Why am I sitting here as if I'm in the amen corner at church? You are a wise man. Listen up young folks!!!
I would add another one - treat your cv as advertisement document. It's not your autobiography and doesn't have to represent everything historically accurately.
I know that this may sound unethical but in my book - as long as you can do the job, I don't really care how you marketed yourself to get through the door.
Examples:
1. I struggled a lot to get my first job after I graduated from university, even though I worked on multiple personal projects and had well above entry level skills, but I struggled even to get interviews. I pivoted and created a fake 1 year experience (by referencing personal project I worked on) and interviews started flowing. I did well on them (since I actually had the experience) and landed a first job quite fast and was competent at it.
2. After 5-6 years of job hopping every year (in order to get 30-50 percent bumps each time) it has started to bite me in the ass. Interviewers started treating me as a redflag, at this point industry expects a 7 year senior to have worked in 2-3 companies during that period, not 7. And they don't care that you may have contracted in half of them and constant switching was just a nature of contracting. I solved that by modifying my CV yet again - placing 3-4 projects under umbrella employment of an agency I got them referred to me. Again, it's not an accurate representation of how it went down but in the end of the day it gets me through the door and I have the experience necessary.
In the end it's all about marketing and being honest about your skills.
100%
He said "I recommend working harder not smarter "
Right? It's supposed to be the opposite.
That surprised me too 😂
Yeah, sorry about that - but you know what I mean.
Yeah I will work harder with your sponsor. 2 minutes to setup an e-shop on Amazon or do drop shipping, brah! That's such hard work 😂😂
In my mid 30s and learning this now sadly😢
Another great video, Bryan!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've tried everything and at this point I'm just going to wait for a job to fall in my lap. If someone wants to make me work they will. Otherwise I'll sit here until I'm thrown out.
this
Been following you since the beginning. This is the best… most impactful! video you have ever done. Cheers!!
Glad it resonated with you!
The whole part about setting yourself up for retirement has just never resonated with me. I'm approaching 50 and have always assumed I'll never retire, like my dad and his dad before him. (My dad's almost 80 and still works full time and plans on never retiring)
All good points. The only thing I will say that is that even companies that do not have unlimited PTO are not paying for unused days now. My company is one of them.
High school and college students need to know that the workplace is SO different from school! School is like a zoo; work is like a jungle!
School is like a kitten rescue. Work is lions on the savanna.
@@SimuLord Lol!
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Try your best to get into a big name company earlier in your career. They pay better, have more perks and make it easier to get new jobs thereafter.
As my late grandfather said in my 20s after coming out of college is that having a job will take many twists and turns and many opportunities will arise in the future. May be I should've listened to him a little better after learning that you shouldn't work for the same company too long just as much as you shouldn't job hop frequently. Plus employers could easily let you go on a whim, even if you've been working with them for some 30 years and getting virtually nothing from them upon leaving.
If you can figure out a way to save money in your 20's & 30's to create a nest egg invested in the market then you can create your own income stream. Even if that investment income is modest you still have more power & more importantly freedom to make careful career decisions. There use to be loyalty towards long time employees. That stopped existing years ago at this point. I'd rather have my freedom with a meager investment income than deal with corporate hacks who care nothing about my wellbeing. I learned a valuable lesson the hard way spending almost 13 years of my life with one company having been overlooked for management positions. I just wasn't "OUTGOING" enough. It didn't matter I had the intelligence. All that mattered was being part of the clique which I was not part of. Introverts in the workplace are often times overlooked & misunderstood by ignorant people.
Thank you for imparting this wisdom on the next generation. I was lucky enough to have been let go from a job that I was way overqualified for in my early 20s, and might have taken way too long to upgrade if not for that motivation!
I don't necessarily agree with this. My brother works for a big bank as a lawyer dealing with trusts, wills and investment and he has been in the same job for years. I think he is fine with it. He also teaches law at night. The secret is the type of job you have. Consider union, city, county, state jobs. I do agree that they would replace you in two seconds so look out for yourself. I also agree that you should have more than one way to make money.
If and/or when you're able to pay off a debt or all your bills it can be very tempting to quit your job, so if you really wanted to leave make sure you have a good enough safety net in place.
I'm also in my 40s. The biggest advice I'd give to 20-30-somethings is "settling down can wait." I worked as a freelance writer, a casino wiseguy, graveyard shift at a 7-Eleven, went to college to ride out the Great Recession, and as a bit of a wanderer traveling across the US and Canada for fun. I settled down and got a "real job" shortly after I turned 40 and now as I push 50 I'm in a steady role in accounting, which is what that college degree got me. I'm "the guy with the stories"...but I'm also the guy who's seen everything and comes up with the unorthodox solution to the problem. That's my value add. My boss's boss asks my opinion on decisions because he knows I won't just be a yes man, I'll tell him what my unique experience in life has taught me.
And the best part? If I don't make it to old age, I won't have spent my entire life working and waiting to retire in order to have fun in life.
Go out and become interesting. It's worth more than money.
Good advice, far too many people want to get married right after college, plop down in the suburbs, and call it a life. No interesting life experiences, no war stories.
I love being an art teacher, but my major was English and teaching English is a more open avenue.
As much as it might hurt me, emotionally, I think I will teach English.
Take a minute to really consider. Seriously, think about i; teaching English is horrible. I have been doing it for years now and I'm trying to get out of it. Your students (young or old) would have never read a book, they are going to be constantly on their phones. They don't like writing. And that's the tip of the iceberg.
Move to SE Asia, that is where the jobs are for that education attainment. America is cooked, only get a job in the US for health insurance that is about it.
@phoenixrising4995 I'm a former American. Trust me, you do NOT want to go to the USA for health insurance
6:22 about being too reserved:
What if you have NO common topics of discussion with your coworkers?
I'm seen as too quiet but 100% of their conversation is either about drinking, partying, sex, relationships or cars/motorcycles. I'm not exaggerating.
I don't drink, I don't party, I'm an aromantic asexual and I know nothing about vehicles (I don't even have a driver's license yet).
How do I insert myself into their convo? (And honestly it's not the kind of talk that I'd like to participate in...)
They're not interested in the topics of my interest, they have a different music style, and if I keep it professional and try to talk about work related topics they clearly don't like it.
Even mundane conversation starters get stale quickly due to this disparity:
"Hey, what did you do on your weekend?"
"Drank my ass of"
"Oh. [anything I say here will be interpreted as dorky because I'm playing it by ear]"
"Hmhumm..."
If they're feeling particularly polite, they might ask "And you?".
My response is "did some chores and played videogames". An uninterested "oh" will follow and the convo dies.
Just a relationship where I find those people to be so incredibly boring and they most likely think the same.
I like being and remaining employed, however. Do you have any suggestions?
Say “did some work around the house, played video-games. Do you game at all?” If answer is yes than ask what game, etc. if answer is no than ask about their weekend activities.
Make the conversation about them, people love to talk about themselves
I advocated for myself for a better salary, and they passed me over for the job.
Leave
There is an element of timing and strategy when asking for a raise.
I was laid off, and they lied to the state saying it was performance. one problem that the state slammed them on... they gave me a PERFORMANCE bonus 2 months before. They wanted avoid wrongful termination, and issued me severance for a year.
I was told they didnt want the investor(s) and/or state to know they were having $$$ issues.
I got laid off when Covid hit, but they fabricated a reason-"inappropriate comments on social media." It took me four months of working through an understaffed, overworked state unemployment office, tirelessly following up week after week in the middle of a freaking pandemic, all the while kept from homelessness solely by an eviction moratorium, before I finally won my case (only because the company failed to respond to a state request for information in a 60-day window-did they hope I'd give up the fight?) and got four months of back unemployment in one lump sum that let me get square with everyone to whom I owed money.
There is nothing scummier than a company laying people off without wanting the state to know they're laying people off.
Valuable video
Great analysis!
I am totally convinced that if you are really ambitious, you need to be making that switch to the FastTrack at around age 26-27.
This means that you need to be a driven workaholic for the first 3 or 4 years of your career in order to make that jump out of the 'average crowd'.
You can relax later once you are on your way!
Depending on your organisation or career goals. If you are young I would recommend trying to get as much experience as you can. For example, customer service posts can be horrible but they are good experience in the long term. Use this to gain more customer service experience and then try a short stint in somewhere like a call centre (short period). This will help you gain more experience. Hopefully you will gain both experience dealing with people face to face as well as digitally (two sides of the same coin lol). From these you can gain communication skills, patience and the ability to deal with difficult situations. I'm hoping you will work towards gaining some qualifications like a degree etc and keep researching opportunities for after graduating. Focus on gaining work placements at university and research popular graduate recruiter's and see if they offer a strong promote from within culture. Should you get a place with said recruiter, I wouldn't be complacent and try to spend at most one year at each grade as you try to gain promotion to the next grade and so on. Opinions are my own. Have a good day reader.
Oh my good, this is the worst piece of advice I have ever heard. With those sorts of jobs you never get anywhere. If you work at a call centre you will never meet the offspring of the wealthy, influential and the powerful , because they don't have to do those sorts of jobs. You are effectively learning to be ' a loser', to be giving your 'blood, sweat and tears' for very little in exchange. I would tell someone in their late teens and early 20s to get an education in something solid (as an insurance policy) and then if your family situation permits (meaning, you can live at home with your parents, without paying rent or worry about getting a mortgage or other responsibilities) do internships in places that would get you closer to your dream job. Take risks, try to do what is difficult when you are young.
Both extremes are pretty bad between staying with the same job for too long and job hopping roughly every 6 months or so.
*Boomer in their 20s* : I have a house, a wife, kids and I've been my whole working career at the same company. I'm depressed.
*Gen z in their 20s* : I have *no* house, *no* gf, *no* kids and I've unemployed for the last 7 months. They say my life is much easier.
Don't look to the news media to categorize yourself because what they say is BS. Most college grads have a hard time finding a career job and end up having to take more training like graduate school or accept entry level jobs just to have an income. It's always been that way since the end of World War II. Unless you have a STEM type of degree, it's always been hard to get a career or keep one whether you're in 20s, 30s, etc, especially since Internet job search and hiring started.
Not exactly, but ok.
FYI 50% of all boomers never climbed an economic ladder. Read the book Generations by Jean Twenge. In addition we were boosted by the economy in WWII and our parents ability to use the GI Bill.
@@pedromarques9267 generational jealousy or insults is based on propaganda from the news media. No generation has had it easy to find a career since the internet job search/hiring system started in the late 1990's. It doesn't matter what generational label you want to use for yourself, it's hard to get hired anywhere. HR so called experts write job descriptions demanding obscene amounts of experience that no one has.
3:58 - "How replaceable you think you are"
5:01 - "I recommend that you work harder, not smarter"
Lol, slip of the tongue, but we know what you meant
This is a great video and extremely helpful. I loved how you say that you need to treat your career like a business.
As someone now mid 50s, this video is so painful because it’s true…….
So... question for you. Obviously we can't change what is already done. But for someone in their 40s who has been in the same job position for many years, what would you advise they do now to improve their situation, given that they can't go back in time and change things now. I'm asking for a "friend." lol
Not to sound vague, but there's so many variables here. I'd deep dive into the "Career Advice" playlist on this channel.
Regarding asking for a promotion, I wouldn't do it. You'll be the next one on the chopping block because you have now labeled yourself as "dissatisfied". If they wanted you promote you, they already would have. Don't rock the boat.
I think there's a time and a place. If the company promotes from within and they put an internal job posting in, gunning for that promotion shows that you're ambitious and looking to grow within the organization. Doing it when there's not a position open above you, that'll get you put on the egotistical "clubhouse cancer" list.
Its all about how you approach it, if you ask what you need to do to get to x role or position its clear you want more without directly asking. Occasionally the situation allows you to directly ask for a promotion too.
@@pentoo988 Bad idea. Middle managers are very intimidated by strategies like this. They will take your interest in a higher position as a direct threat and terminate you.
From my experience, the "asserting yourself in certain situations" translates the same way as a handsome guy making a brazen gesture at a female, versus a not very good looking one.
The good looking guy will be called a "cheeky chappie" and she will be receptive to it, maybe even reward him for it (called the Halo effect).
The not very looking guy will be labelled a "creep" and HR will be calling him in for a chat.
In business terms, if they just don't like you, they'll label your input as "negative", so I always thought it best to just keep quiet, even in situations where it is patently obvious that the host is being disingenuous.
The people who are allowed to express themselves and their opinions were always forever thus, without judgement.
You can always tell by just a quick scan of a department who is already pre-selected to progress in the organisation and who isn't.
I agree though about the assertiveness part and not allowing yourself to be walked over, definitely not.
Would also add that the people who got the office game early in their 20's were often mentored and definitely were not the hardest workers, they just navigated the workplace alot smarter and knew how to take credit for other people's work or ideas.
It's cerebral warfare out there.
Yeah channel is so far out of touch its shocking.
"You can always tell by just a quick scan of a department who is already pre-selected to progress in the organisation and who isn't." THIS!
If only I could've told my 30 year old self at the time I joined a union, I would've told him that joining a union won't necessarily make your job (or life) better as your boss can tell you that they're going to hold you to an "unfair" higher standard, which could easily mean they want to make your job more difficult in an attempt to push you out.
Resume writing, interview skills and networking!
I've got a good question about a job in a company thats growing (rapidly?) versus a company that's stagnating and how long you should stay there for. Currently i'm in a job at an amazing comfortable company thats growing but i am worried that staying there for more than a few years can stagnate my career and salary growth, especially since i am planning to go more into the direction of specialization rather than management.
what advice do you have for someone that is born deaf and has been software coding for 30 years, degree was from a college that is no longer around (GMI), and using systems that just don't exist any longer. How do you avoid going into education debt to get certified, which then means you are then 60 years old with a massive 100K student debt and the same unemployment problem. Being the CEO is that you cannot 100% forecast the future such as how AI will impact what you do. Saying, learn it, master it, will not get you to the next level. What do people with disabilities or being ugly do if you have to be constantly marketing yourself.
Yep, spot on.
If I were to meet myself in my 20s, I would have told myself not to go back to college to finish a BS degree. What a waste of time and money that was.
Very rarely are the chances of say, you working a dustpan and broom a long limo pulls up with an executive coming out to offer a good/better job opportunity because he likes the way you operate the broom and giving you his business card. Best bet is just to file that under "almost never." LOL
What about for people who are in revenue generating roles?
thank you, great advice
Just be yourself, you know what's good for you. Don't listen to advise from 40 years olds. I regreted every decision I took following someone else's advices. Every generation has its ups and downs.
But some advice is helpful like having more than one way to make money.
Interesting....over the weekend I saw a woman I worked with years ago.. I told her NOT to accept a management position as this company has designated the credit manager position as the scape goat when ideas go awry....
I worked a job that didn't hold up to any standards. I did my best and went above the standards. When I started to question why others were allowed to do terrible work, management basically was like "I am here to just get my paycheck."
So I quit. Womp womp.
when you say a career mistake, what are we talking about here? Like if you're better at software but ended up doing teaching for a few years early on in your career?
Build your Store is not a scam at all /s
Would be helpful example of mistakes were given
Unfortunately, grandstanders are in the company for a reason. Unnecessary comments in meetings, only to be heard are the norm.
This is what I would told to my younger self too.
Best career advice avoid being an employee in first place. Mistakes in the 20s are almost irreversible.
So set up your own company? I think that's excellent advice but in what though....
My employer is on It’s six year with a private equity firm and just switched over to unlimited PTO for 2025, I have a layoffs will be coming, what do you think?
Have you ever came across the scenarilo where someone is an over performer but they're seen as a threat not an asset? So when they get performance reviews, the accomplishments are ignored or trivialized and managers/peers etc give rather vague and non-specific negative f/b? What's your advice on how to deal with this?
This rarely happens
@@bobsemple9341 It happens more than you think, especially if that manager thinks you want their position.
@@AshtasticAcrobat that's unlikely. This is usually the opinion of someone actually doing quite badly. But looking for excuses to blame others for their failures
Define career mistake? As in chose the wrong career entirely?
"Nobody else is going to pull you along"... what about women trying to have a child? I think we as a culture owe them the room to do that without worrying about employment or a partner. Maybe there's a reason why more women than ever in our culture are holding off having children or not having them at all.
Don’t be a baby mama. Career and social death.
impart* you impart wisdom, you don't "depart" it. That being said, I've already fallen way behind my peer group, which is something you bring up in the video.
hmm maybe focusing more on your own mistakes instead of pointing out those of others might help
Spoiler: 20 year old you probably wouldn’t have listened. 20 year old me damn sure wouldn’t have listened to 40 year old me.
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That means a lot. Thank you.
I am 24. Definitely noting all these things. Appreciate the wisdom and wise words!!
This guy just cannot shake off the corporate world. He claims to be "on our side" (whatever that means) but he still seems to hold onto what his corporate overlords want to hear. Once a recruiter always a recruiter.
@@althunder4269 what in this video gave you this impression?
*work harder not smarter" ??
Keep telling the youngns time is more important than money and how to navigate the bs. No war but class war
Can you do a video when a cave man just woke up and he is on his 40 and has no experience what so ever only high school diploma, what to do next….
I do have a question that you can talk about on your channel. There are many scientific studies that say that humans cannot multitask. Yet, there are still jobs that require multitasking. I'm wondering why is that?
Because multitasking is being able to balance work over a time frame. Not in the moment
Its called queue tasking specifically. Meaning you prioritize tasks based on importance.