I’m a prime example of someone who’s jaded. I do appreciate the info I get from some of you recruiter-influencers and it honestly makes me feel worse! Not because your info is bad (to the contrary), it’s because it just seems like the goal post moves as soon as i get there. 😅
Budy, everyone feels like you, and there is no planning ahead for once career, this also isn´t what my life is about. Don´t worry, you will be and you will make things up once you get there just as 100% of all other humans =) You will be fine, honestly.
People giving him flak for advertising need to realize that he is currently a content creator, not an active recruiter. While he doles out advice to help us, he also needs to make money with sponsorships. RUclips ad revenue can be great but not enough to support a whole family like he has, at least at his subscriber level and average view count. Taking the extra sponsorship here and there can go a long way towards him providing for his family. If anything you should try to learn from him and generate some content to potentially make your own money from ads and sponsorships... I'm sure if someone offered you $2000+ to insert a 30 second ad for a relatively harmless product, you would too. Thanks for the vid Brian(? Sorry I always forget your name), as always, good advice that is hard to hear.
A person doesn't earn money from the Ad(s) unless they are watched in its entirety. Most of us hit the "Skip" once the option is available. That too applies to whether or not the channel content was watched for more than 3 seconds. Most view counts are not factual.
“Always have a Plan B.” Easier said than done. It’s easy to get far too comfortable with one employer before knowing shit will hit the fan. If I were to build my career in Urban Planning, I would need to take more than 2-steps back to get hired in a more entry-level role with a significant decrease in salary ($20k-$40k less per year). I would also need to get AICP certification. AICP membership and exam costs big money. Not sure if making such a huge sacrifice at this point in my life (early 40s) would be worth it while I managed to strong arm my cushy 6-figure position in the private telecom sector. I am STILL jaded by past slights and unfairness of jobs and opportunities I was passed over for.
I got too comfortable with my employer and spent a bit too much of my savings even though all this time I had them just in case shit hits the fan - guess what? Shit did really hit the fan right after I did some spending because I thought “all is good”. You know who I blame for that - myself! Your comment is filled with excuses. Having a Plan B is not that hard, it just takes effort like everything else.
When I was in my doctoral program I just knew I wanted to use data to solve problems and help people. I didn't have a plan (I had bounced from internship to internship during my doctorate) outside of just getting a full-time analyst job. I learned quickly that community colleges can't offer much and to learn from them on a few projects and then move. Eventually I landed at the university I've worked at for 8 years, and like you mentioned I relied on my institution to see my worth and promote me. Instead, I became irreplaceable but that also meant people were a lot less likely to move me officially to new roles. I would do new projects but I remained in lateral roles. This past couple of months have shown me I want to become a Chief Data Officer or Chief Data Strategist and that I can align my work to prepare me for that, either at my university or somewhere else. It helps me to be jaded, in a good way. Great video!
Doing my best not to hate recruiters right now Bryan, but the ghosting has reached a whole new level recently it feels. I just got done submitting a work sample to a job, they told me they loved it and they'll call me soon for a final interview... weeks ago... No response to emails. Dude is this industry just being outsourced? I really hate this :(
View job searching as transactional. It keeps the emotion out of it. You are a means to an end. As HR works for the company and not the employees, so does the recruiter. The recruiter is only concerned about getting paid. Follow the money.
I rarely do work assignments during an interview - It would have to be short and unrelated to their business problem. My goal would be to be in a position where you don't need to tolerate that stuff, but it requires you to reclaim control over your career.
You're right about not being overly jaded. A previous co-worker stared a small tech consulting company and is giving me part time remote work. It fills the resume and is much better than nothing.
I recently became unemployed and had to attempt navigating all the support services--- Unemployment, State Marketplace for insurance and various other services. I was shocked at the repeated ineffectiveness and lack of professionalism I encountered on a number of occasions while trying to navigate these critical services. I was blown away that these people were gainfully employed, and I wasn't! What is happening to the work force? Customer service has taken a deep tumble downward.
Agency is the differentiator. The hard lesson is learning that you have to leave if someone tries to take it from you. Nobody should have to deal with that, but giving it up is ultimately a choice. Great advice, Bryan!
Your videos have given me a sharper mind to initiate multiple streams of income. I think that’s where we’re at as a society. Start spinning plates every 3 months, build at least one or two side hustles, keep building your network by meeting new people another one is go back to college to learn new skills and update your skills. I thank you Brian, keep making more videos.
As they say, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I don’t have time for a “side hustle”. I keep my resume updated and treat work transactionally. I provide them a service and they provide me a paycheck. Because loyalty does not exist, I keep my emotions out of it.
Exactly. This channel is designed to package problems into solutions that Brian can offer during "for fee" career coaching. This whole channel is an ad for his services.
That's good advice about multiple streams of income. I own a duplex. One side is my residence and the other is a rental property. The rental covers most of my mortgage p&i, taxes and insurance. I also teach part-time. These side gigs are the only reason I still have a home. I lost my full-time job 11 months ago. I was summarily let go by my employer, who one month prior to letting me go, gave me a performance based raise and told me I was doing a great job.
In today's economy, don't be overly jaded, but do try to be over employed. At the end of the day, only you care about you. 6:50 - and this is why your social media profiles should be COMPLETELY anonymous. So you can have that freedom. 7:30 - just play the corporate games. Once you understand that what you say must not always coincide with what you actually believe, you're golden.
I strive to be a healthy form of “jaded” I don’t believe the myth that simply working hard will get me anywhere, and I’ve made very conscious and thoughtful decisions about what I’m willing and not willing to put up with. So a lot of your corporate toxic positive types call me very negative, but in reality, I think I lead a much more positive life than them because I’m able to set boundaries. It doesn’t mean I’m not willing to compromise at all, but I have a point in which I will just say “I’ll figure out something else” And then I always do.
Good for you. When I think the stuff I put up with 20 years ago. It’s the way it is I need a paycheck and I was considered a job hopper. At least my pay went up.
My boyfriend is in this situation right now. He's interviewing for a job that doesn't seem to have much opportunity to advance but it will give him a new skillset.
I work in the public sector. I have a degree and graduate experience as well as other experience. I do work with a decent employer that has decent benefits but there is little growth there but I do learn useful skills however these don't feel transferable. Glad I'm not the only one.
I'm beyond jaded. I'm a DOD contractor. Everyone here starts as a contractor and eventually gets the chance to convert to a full-time employee if you prove yourself. Sound familiar? Except all the full-time people here are lazy and are honestly the worst employees but when RIFs come, contractors are the first to go. The money is good but as a contractor we are always treated as less than. I hate it.
You can be okay with a single source of income if you live below your means and have a robust savings account. I left a job that was so bad/stressful that it was actually affecting my health. I did not have another job lined up but I did have about 2 1/2 years of living expenses saved up and I prepared for my leaving several months in advance (cut cable tv, bought $60 hair clippers to cut my own hair, went through all my expenses and cut or downsized them as much as possible). I got another job about 8 months later that has been so much better. I'm still at that job after 10 years and am making much more money and living with a lot less stress.
@@DiamondFlame45 My story was a present-day story, you know. Which means I've been working my current job for over 10 years 😬 There are companies that will keep ee's for a long time, you just have to be careful not to get stuck in the lower pay scale by staying in one place for that long. I agree that job hopping (especially early on) can increase pay a lot more than staying put at one company.
@ that’s why it’s important to strategically job hop. I am in the process of applying to new roles while employed because my current company wants to keep my in my role. They changed the goal post to what’s required for a promotion when I was doing tasks my predecessor didn’t do.
Bryan always has excellent advice on this channel. I'd like to combine a few things that he's advised. First always keep your skills and Resume up to date so that your skills can be in as much demand as possible. Second, is networking, and I'd have to say I think this is the most important. These days looking for a posted job on a job site, often only reveals toxic jobs, bad recruiters and ghost jobs. Bryan has stated that the majority of decent jobs are landed, not through job postings but through the hidden job market. How do you find a job that's not posted anywhere? By networking. Bryan is so right that you should always keep yourself in a position where you are not stressed out about losing your job. Whether it's having money set aside so you can take a long vacation and several months to find a new job, or a side hustle or secondary revenue stream. If you put yourself in that position, then your mentality changes, that your employer needs you more than you need them. In that frame of mind, if you do get terminated, it won't be stressful, but possibly liberating. They gave you the opportunity to find a better job with a better employer.
Control... a crippling mindset escalated by lacking patience for needing to be the best at what they do, use of computers, increased internet speeds, personalized mobile devices, faster GPUs, instant messaging, on-demand applications, macros, automation, and the use of AI. Meanwhile, competing against one another in order to climb the ladder on your own. When those don't work... a society spiraling into panic mode.
I would like to add to Bryan's insightful comments about being jaded relative to your work. One of the MOST critical factors in controlling your career path that I have found was the notion of saving money - and a lot of it. When you have money saved and you get laid off, which has happened to me more times than I care to remember, you are fundamentally protected from the short term shock of such an event. I have found that an adequate savings has been exactly as it is stated - savings has "saved" me from the unnecessary stress of not becoming indigent. No matter what I do or where I work, I am in a comfortable mindset of saving when I can. I typically save such that I have as a baseline 2.5 years worth of savings. That is more than enough time to comfortably manage any kind of income disruption that one experiences. And, for any of you who read this comment and have any excuse for not saving, and I mean ANY excuse, you are where you are at because of your myopic thinking.
This is the solution! Not only to support yourself financially, but you can navigate the job market to find a great role versus a role due to a desperation.
At 63 I’m a different kind of jaded. Short timer attitude I’m doing my job 40 hours and done. Not scrolling email at 9 pm. But I do my job which is different from a lot of my co workers.
Excellent video! So needed this! Can you speak about a current employer holding you back by cutting your hours and also blackballing the employee to keep that person trapped and down?
Unless you employ or lead a group of soldiers growing coffee for you in your back yard, you don't have a daily coffee "regiment" (4:10) . Don't worry though - nobody that I know does. You probably have a daily coffee "regimen" like many of us do :-) Please keep up the excellent work.
At about 4:32-4:34 there's a child's voice or something in the background and it sounded like one of my own, I went and checked - nope, they were asleep but didn't appreciate me waking them up :(. I went back and looked at it, sure enough it was just here on the computer, but it sounded so much like it was outside of my headphones. So if anyone else heard it, don't worry about it, it's just internal audio. Ok, sorry to interrupt, back to the content.
So i checked out the magic mind supplements. I think a retail of $90 even at $50 is insanely overpriced for what is effectively some caffeine, b vitamins and c vitamins. I would highly recommend people just eat a balanced breakfast, say an orange a couple of eggs and a piece of lean meat and grab a cup of coffee for the caffeine. I'm not saying this was a bad sponsor for your channel, but it really doesn't make sense. There are way cheaper alternatives that will give a significant boost to your mental focus than these supplements from magic mind.
usually when I meet hrs, they happen to be the nicest people (and the most jaded :)). please know that not everyone consider you enemies, we have mutual enemy whose name is - corporations!
I am in a different field now. But I worked retail. I was asking what do I need to do to move from customer service desk to customer service manager. The person I spoke to who was a member of management said they weren't going to demote anyone so I could get the position. Um, that isn't what I asked. But okay.
Much needed video. I felt a little jaded due to my career stagnating. But, I have learned to build a growing network with potential employers on LinkedIn. I have decided to see the bright in life including my career. I never want be tied down to one income. I am investing in my skills and I know it will pay off in the end. Just have to be patient with myself. Thanks
Good video. But stop with the excessive advertising. I understand you need the money, but I expect you to hold yourself to a higher standard than this!
He's selling snake-oil. Hard for me to ever trust anything else he says, because he's either crazy or untrustworthy for selling those crap supplements.
Jaded...yep.....took up a new job and made a BIG risk (as I wasn't totally sure what I was getting into) because it paid more and it's remote. 10 weeks training and all this crazy coding. Anyhow, so many red flags : Insane trainer making people quit! In fact, I think we are down from 20, to 14 now and we are still in training. The trainer was so bad, everyone made a report and she was removed. After I took up this job, I noticed the SAME job posting up about 1 month later! Says a lot about the job. Too old for this sh**......sometimes feeling better off dead.....
This is like saying "to make money in the stock market simply buy stocks right before they go up in value and sell them before they go down in value." Now that's good advice right there, it will make you a boatload of money if you manage to pull it off, and if everyone tries it, someone will in fact successfully do it by luck alone. However it's terrible advice as almost nobody who tries it will succeed. Your advice is actually more useless, its just "have the correct strategy and then do it" without any details as to what the correct strategy is.
I mean I get that it's hard to be more specific in a broad topic like this, cause like a "carrer strategy" is gonna look different depending on what the career wanted is, but you have to have some level of "here is how you go about developing this strategy, here are the limits of what you can practically do, here are the general types of strategies etc" You also have to factor in that the whole situation might change and the work someone did in the past might get dramatically lessened in value due to circumstances and you might have to readjust.
Don’t just focus on salary. Look at the whole benefit package. I’d rather get paid less if it means a ton of vacation and a flexible schedule/ working arrangement.
Don’t worry about salary, get your experience and then bail in a couple years. Based on you having to ask us how to negotiate means you probably shouldn’t negotiate. Most who do negotiate have experience and something to offer the employer which the rest of the candidate pool cannot offer.
@user-vi5vd3ty9d So, I do not have the experience but I did have 2 certificates from school for the position and they are offering me 10 dollars less then average pay for the position, and I completed there training in 2 months and was told it was a 6 month course, on top off getting certified on 2 of their tools that was supposed to take another 6-8 months after training. Should I still take the less?
@ Is there growth in the industry? If they offer $40k a year but competitors on average offer $75k, I would take the $40k, get a year or two then shift to more money in that industry. Thats how you get experience and add value when you apply elsewhere in future. It will suck for 1-2 years, but 1-2 years will go fast. I did this, started at $35k 9 years ago. I now make 6 figures in the industry doing same job with a senior title.
@user-vi5vd3ty9d yes there is expediential growth in the industry, plus the company itself is building 2 more fabs on the same property ones projected to be up in 2028 and the other to be finished by 2034, the company just received a government grant for a pretty good fortune. I guess my biggest concern with accepting the opportunity is that I accepted to little, the company from what I saw on Glassdoor, indeed, and another site is that for the same type of experience range is that extra mark. Honestly the hardest part is the hour drive, haha but you're right I should just suck it up and get the experience.
People say: “Omg he’s advertisting too much - why don’t you just give us all your resources and knowledge without any monetary compensation?!” also people: Just freeloading all the information, not willing to give anything back in return, not even a like or a sign of gratitude Me: uhum got it 😐
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Lots of people come to your comments to ventilate their frustrations I guess.
I'm fed up with my job as well, but I do appreciate the advice.
I’m a prime example of someone who’s jaded. I do appreciate the info I get from some of you recruiter-influencers and it honestly makes me feel worse! Not because your info is bad (to the contrary), it’s because it just seems like the goal post moves as soon as i get there. 😅
Budy, everyone feels like you, and there is no planning ahead for once career, this also isn´t what my life is about. Don´t worry, you will be and you will make things up once you get there just as 100% of all other humans =) You will be fine, honestly.
@@sierraecho884 Thank you for the kind words.
RIght, and these employers are under paying as well so that doesn't help with being jaded at all
NGL this video legit solidified my position in sticking with your content foreva.
People giving him flak for advertising need to realize that he is currently a content creator, not an active recruiter. While he doles out advice to help us, he also needs to make money with sponsorships. RUclips ad revenue can be great but not enough to support a whole family like he has, at least at his subscriber level and average view count. Taking the extra sponsorship here and there can go a long way towards him providing for his family. If anything you should try to learn from him and generate some content to potentially make your own money from ads and sponsorships... I'm sure if someone offered you $2000+ to insert a 30 second ad for a relatively harmless product, you would too.
Thanks for the vid Brian(? Sorry I always forget your name), as always, good advice that is hard to hear.
A person doesn't earn money from the Ad(s) unless they are watched in its entirety. Most of us hit the "Skip" once the option is available. That too applies to whether or not the channel content was watched for more than 3 seconds. Most view counts are not factual.
Your videos are always so insightful. I’m definitely suffering from being jaded in my career but it really does stem from a feeling of powerlessness!
“Always have a Plan B.” Easier said than done. It’s easy to get far too comfortable with one employer before knowing shit will hit the fan. If I were to build my career in Urban Planning, I would need to take more than 2-steps back to get hired in a more entry-level role with a significant decrease in salary ($20k-$40k less per year). I would also need to get AICP certification. AICP membership and exam costs big money. Not sure if making such a huge sacrifice at this point in my life (early 40s) would be worth it while I managed to strong arm my cushy 6-figure position in the private telecom sector. I am STILL jaded by past slights and unfairness of jobs and opportunities I was passed over for.
I got too comfortable with my employer and spent a bit too much of my savings even though all this time I had them just in case shit hits the fan - guess what? Shit did really hit the fan right after I did some spending because I thought “all is good”. You know who I blame for that - myself! Your comment is filled with excuses. Having a Plan B is not that hard, it just takes effort like everything else.
When I was in my doctoral program I just knew I wanted to use data to solve problems and help people. I didn't have a plan (I had bounced from internship to internship during my doctorate) outside of just getting a full-time analyst job. I learned quickly that community colleges can't offer much and to learn from them on a few projects and then move. Eventually I landed at the university I've worked at for 8 years, and like you mentioned I relied on my institution to see my worth and promote me. Instead, I became irreplaceable but that also meant people were a lot less likely to move me officially to new roles. I would do new projects but I remained in lateral roles. This past couple of months have shown me I want to become a Chief Data Officer or Chief Data Strategist and that I can align my work to prepare me for that, either at my university or somewhere else. It helps me to be jaded, in a good way. Great video!
I already suffered ENOUGH post trauma from my last job that was toxic and my current job is a pretty good respite for me.
Please do a video on DEI and H1B from a recruiter's perspective.
good one
It’s both nonsense
you want this channel taken down?
@blango-san this ain’t 2020 anymore
Career?! Who has one of those anymore? If you're lucky, you may have a job that you can tolerate until you're laid-off within the next 1-2 years.
I hope you find a job that you love and that loves you so much that it ends only when you decide it ends
Doing my best not to hate recruiters right now Bryan, but the ghosting has reached a whole new level recently it feels. I just got done submitting a work sample to a job, they told me they loved it and they'll call me soon for a final interview... weeks ago... No response to emails. Dude is this industry just being outsourced? I really hate this :(
Yes, much of this industry is being outsourced to Indians, both offshore and onshore.
View job searching as transactional. It keeps the emotion out of it. You are a means to an end. As HR works for the company and not the employees, so does the recruiter. The recruiter is only concerned about getting paid. Follow the money.
@@NormalPerson229it’s frustrating because a lot of them only speak basic English and have a thick accent.
If they are considering you, they will reach out.
I rarely do work assignments during an interview - It would have to be short and unrelated to their business problem. My goal would be to be in a position where you don't need to tolerate that stuff, but it requires you to reclaim control over your career.
You're right about not being overly jaded. A previous co-worker stared a small tech consulting company and is giving me part time remote work. It fills the resume and is much better than nothing.
I recently became unemployed and had to attempt navigating all the support services--- Unemployment, State Marketplace for insurance and various other services. I was shocked at the repeated ineffectiveness and lack of professionalism I encountered on a number of occasions while trying to navigate these critical services. I was blown away that these people were gainfully employed, and I wasn't! What is happening to the work force? Customer service has taken a deep tumble downward.
I work as a contractor for a county office, you're not exaggerating; I'm surprised some of these folks can walk and breathe at the same time.
B. Continue your good work. Be blunt B. I enjoy your videos because you say the truth.
Thanks Paul! I see you're doing good work with your LI profile.
Agency is the differentiator. The hard lesson is learning that you have to leave if someone tries to take it from you. Nobody should have to deal with that, but giving it up is ultimately a choice. Great advice, Bryan!
Your videos have given me a sharper mind to initiate multiple streams of income. I think that’s where we’re at as a society. Start spinning plates every 3 months, build at least one or two side hustles, keep building your network by meeting new people another one is go back to college to learn new skills and update your skills. I thank you Brian, keep making more videos.
“Career strategy” is a facade. Your career is mostly at the whim of the markets, layoffs, luck, other people, HR, DEI, etc.
As they say, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I don’t have time for a “side hustle”. I keep my resume updated and treat work transactionally. I provide them a service and they provide me a paycheck. Because loyalty does not exist, I keep my emotions out of it.
Exactly. This channel is designed to package problems into solutions that Brian can offer during "for fee" career coaching. This whole channel is an ad for his services.
@@janetgrega5613easier said than done
Gain more skills, get more work
What you're describing is exactly opposite of having a career strategy.
That's good advice about multiple streams of income. I own a duplex. One side is my residence and the other is a rental property. The rental covers most of my mortgage p&i, taxes and insurance. I also teach part-time. These side gigs are the only reason I still have a home. I lost my full-time job 11 months ago. I was summarily let go by my employer, who one month prior to letting me go, gave me a performance based raise and told me I was doing a great job.
In today's economy, don't be overly jaded, but do try to be over employed. At the end of the day, only you care about you.
6:50 - and this is why your social media profiles should be COMPLETELY anonymous. So you can have that freedom.
7:30 - just play the corporate games. Once you understand that what you say must not always coincide with what you actually believe, you're golden.
I strive to be a healthy form of “jaded”
I don’t believe the myth that simply working hard will get me anywhere, and I’ve made very conscious and thoughtful decisions about what I’m willing and not willing to put up with. So a lot of your corporate toxic positive types call me very negative, but in reality, I think I lead a much more positive life than them because I’m able to set boundaries.
It doesn’t mean I’m not willing to compromise at all, but I have a point in which I will just say “I’ll figure out something else”
And then I always do.
Good for you. When I think the stuff I put up with 20 years ago. It’s the way it is I need a paycheck and I was considered a job hopper. At least my pay went up.
My boyfriend is in this situation right now. He's interviewing for a job that doesn't seem to have much opportunity to advance but it will give him a new skillset.
I work in the public sector. I have a degree and graduate experience as well as other experience. I do work with a decent employer that has decent benefits but there is little growth there but I do learn useful skills however these don't feel transferable. Glad I'm not the only one.
I'm beyond jaded. I'm a DOD contractor. Everyone here starts as a contractor and eventually gets the chance to convert to a full-time employee if you prove yourself. Sound familiar? Except all the full-time people here are lazy and are honestly the worst employees but when RIFs come, contractors are the first to go. The money is good but as a contractor we are always treated as less than. I hate it.
You can be okay with a single source of income if you live below your means and have a robust savings account. I left a job that was so bad/stressful that it was actually affecting my health. I did not have another job lined up but I did have about 2 1/2 years of living expenses saved up and I prepared for my leaving several months in advance (cut cable tv, bought $60 hair clippers to cut my own hair, went through all my expenses and cut or downsized them as much as possible). I got another job about 8 months later that has been so much better. I'm still at that job after 10 years and am making much more money and living with a lot less stress.
But that’s not the reality anymore. Companies don’t even keep employees for 10 years anymore and employees know you make more money by switching
@@DiamondFlame45 My story was a present-day story, you know. Which means I've been working my current job for over 10 years 😬 There are companies that will keep ee's for a long time, you just have to be careful not to get stuck in the lower pay scale by staying in one place for that long. I agree that job hopping (especially early on) can increase pay a lot more than staying put at one company.
@ that’s why it’s important to strategically job hop. I am in the process of applying to new roles while employed because my current company wants to keep my in my role. They changed the goal post to what’s required for a promotion when I was doing tasks my predecessor didn’t do.
At some point though, you'll be forced to take a job that isn't ideal to make ends meet.
Bryan always has excellent advice on this channel. I'd like to combine a few things that he's advised. First always keep your skills and Resume up to date so that your skills can be in as much demand as possible. Second, is networking, and I'd have to say I think this is the most important. These days looking for a posted job on a job site, often only reveals toxic jobs, bad recruiters and ghost jobs. Bryan has stated that the majority of decent jobs are landed, not through job postings but through the hidden job market. How do you find a job that's not posted anywhere? By networking.
Bryan is so right that you should always keep yourself in a position where you are not stressed out about losing your job. Whether it's having money set aside so you can take a long vacation and several months to find a new job, or a side hustle or secondary revenue stream. If you put yourself in that position, then your mentality changes, that your employer needs you more than you need them. In that frame of mind, if you do get terminated, it won't be stressful, but possibly liberating. They gave you the opportunity to find a better job with a better employer.
i love ur videos brian!!! thanx so much for ur support in these tough times!
My pleasure!
Jaded my entire work life!
Control... a crippling mindset escalated by lacking patience for needing to be the best at what they do, use of computers, increased internet speeds, personalized mobile devices, faster GPUs, instant messaging, on-demand applications, macros, automation, and the use of AI. Meanwhile, competing against one another in order to climb the ladder on your own. When those don't work... a society spiraling into panic mode.
I would like to add to Bryan's insightful comments about being jaded relative to your work. One of the MOST critical factors in controlling your career path that I have found was the notion of saving money - and a lot of it. When you have money saved and you get laid off, which has happened to me more times than I care to remember, you are fundamentally protected from the short term shock of such an event. I have found that an adequate savings has been exactly as it is stated - savings has "saved" me from the unnecessary stress of not becoming indigent. No matter what I do or where I work, I am in a comfortable mindset of saving when I can. I typically save such that I have as a baseline 2.5 years worth of savings. That is more than enough time to comfortably manage any kind of income disruption that one experiences. And, for any of you who read this comment and have any excuse for not saving, and I mean ANY excuse, you are where you are at because of your myopic thinking.
This is the solution! Not only to support yourself financially, but you can navigate the job market to find a great role versus a role due to a desperation.
At 63 I’m a different kind of jaded. Short timer attitude I’m doing my job 40 hours and done. Not scrolling email at 9 pm. But I do my job which is different from a lot of my co workers.
Excellent video! So needed this! Can you speak about a current employer holding you back by cutting your hours and also blackballing the employee to keep that person trapped and down?
If overly jaded was a person. It would be me.😂
Unless you employ or lead a group of soldiers growing coffee for you in your back yard, you don't have a daily coffee "regiment" (4:10) . Don't worry though - nobody that I know does.
You probably have a daily coffee "regimen" like many of us do :-) Please keep up the excellent work.
At about 4:32-4:34 there's a child's voice or something in the background and it sounded like one of my own, I went and checked - nope, they were asleep but didn't appreciate me waking them up :(. I went back and looked at it, sure enough it was just here on the computer, but it sounded so much like it was outside of my headphones. So if anyone else heard it, don't worry about it, it's just internal audio. Ok, sorry to interrupt, back to the content.
Thank you so much Bryan! ❤🧡💛💚💙
I really appreciate your content. But I cannot help but feel like some of these videos are getting less relevant and pushed out to fit an ad.
So i checked out the magic mind supplements. I think a retail of $90 even at $50 is insanely overpriced for what is effectively some caffeine, b vitamins and c vitamins.
I would highly recommend people just eat a balanced breakfast, say an orange a couple of eggs and a piece of lean meat and grab a cup of coffee for the caffeine.
I'm not saying this was a bad sponsor for your channel, but it really doesn't make sense. There are way cheaper alternatives that will give a significant boost to your mental focus than these supplements from magic mind.
usually when I meet hrs, they happen to be the nicest people (and the most jaded :)). please know that not everyone consider you enemies, we have mutual enemy whose name is - corporations!
I don’t mind the ads if you don’t want ads pay for it or fast forward
I am in a different field now. But I worked retail. I was asking what do I need to do to move from customer service desk to customer service manager.
The person I spoke to who was a member of management said they weren't going to demote anyone so I could get the position.
Um, that isn't what I asked. But okay.
Career? It's just a string of jobs and you taking opportunities as they come up. You get sick of one place and move on to something better.
This is the definition of not having a career strategy - a string of jobs you're taking as they come up.
Brian, what's hood with it mayng?
Great advice.
Much needed video. I felt a little jaded due to my career stagnating. But, I have learned to build a growing network with potential employers on LinkedIn. I have decided to see the bright in life including my career. I never want be tied down to one income. I am investing in my skills and I know it will pay off in the end. Just have to be patient with myself. Thanks
You're on the right track!
Timely reminder
There's an irony in career self-starters ragging on a business-minded content creator for marketing his services.
He's not a 501c3, y'all..
What of the content of this most likely new snake oil?
Good video. But stop with the excessive advertising. I understand you need the money, but I expect you to hold yourself to a higher standard than this!
He's selling snake-oil.
Hard for me to ever trust anything else he says, because he's either crazy or untrustworthy for selling those crap supplements.
Yep that’s why I don’t subscribe to this channel.
Thanks for the comment, but I'll continue to build multiple streams of income and not feel bashful about it, like mentioned in the video.
Make sure you don’t forget to take your medication before you comment
I didn't think it was excessive at all. He's on topic for the majority of the video.
You must be new to RUclips if you consider this excessive lmao
Jaded...yep.....took up a new job and made a BIG risk (as I wasn't totally sure what I was getting into) because it paid more and it's remote. 10 weeks training and all this crazy coding. Anyhow, so many red flags : Insane trainer making people quit! In fact, I think we are down from 20, to 14 now and we are still in training. The trainer was so bad, everyone made a report and she was removed. After I took up this job, I noticed the SAME job posting up about 1 month later! Says a lot about the job.
Too old for this sh**......sometimes feeling better off dead.....
I'm sorry but this is dumb. Your advice here is basically "Just do everything right."
Yes - operate with career strategy instead of winging it and then complaining how unfair life is.
This is like saying "to make money in the stock market simply buy stocks right before they go up in value and sell them before they go down in value." Now that's good advice right there, it will make you a boatload of money if you manage to pull it off, and if everyone tries it, someone will in fact successfully do it by luck alone. However it's terrible advice as almost nobody who tries it will succeed.
Your advice is actually more useless, its just "have the correct strategy and then do it" without any details as to what the correct strategy is.
I mean I get that it's hard to be more specific in a broad topic like this, cause like a "carrer strategy" is gonna look different depending on what the career wanted is, but you have to have some level of "here is how you go about developing this strategy, here are the limits of what you can practically do, here are the general types of strategies etc"
You also have to factor in that the whole situation might change and the work someone did in the past might get dramatically lessened in value due to circumstances and you might have to readjust.
Great advice!
Jaded, good Miley Cyrus song 😊
Unsubbing since you're selling snake-oil now.
What a disappointment.
Thanks for following along!
So does anybody know a good way to negotiate a salary, if you are a temporary employee that got offered a Full time Position with the company?
Don’t just focus on salary. Look at the whole benefit package. I’d rather get paid less if it means a ton of vacation and a flexible schedule/ working arrangement.
Don’t worry about salary, get your experience and then bail in a couple years. Based on you having to ask us how to negotiate means you probably shouldn’t negotiate. Most who do negotiate have experience and something to offer the employer which the rest of the candidate pool cannot offer.
@user-vi5vd3ty9d So, I do not have the experience but I did have 2 certificates from school for the position and they are offering me 10 dollars less then average pay for the position, and I completed there training in 2 months and was told it was a 6 month course, on top off getting certified on 2 of their tools that was supposed to take another 6-8 months after training. Should I still take the less?
@ Is there growth in the industry? If they offer $40k a year but competitors on average offer $75k, I would take the $40k, get a year or two then shift to more money in that industry. Thats how you get experience and add value when you apply elsewhere in future. It will suck for 1-2 years, but 1-2 years will go fast.
I did this, started at $35k 9 years ago. I now make 6 figures in the industry doing same job with a senior title.
@user-vi5vd3ty9d yes there is expediential growth in the industry, plus the company itself is building 2 more fabs on the same property ones projected to be up in 2028 and the other to be finished by 2034, the company just received a government grant for a pretty good fortune. I guess my biggest concern with accepting the opportunity is that I accepted to little, the company from what I saw on Glassdoor, indeed, and another site is that for the same type of experience range is that extra mark. Honestly the hardest part is the hour drive, haha but you're right I should just suck it up and get the experience.
People say: “Omg he’s advertisting too much - why don’t you just give us all your resources and knowledge without any monetary compensation?!”
also people: Just freeloading all the information, not willing to give anything back in return, not even a like or a sign of gratitude
Me: uhum got it 😐
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How to give employers and recruiters the finger. Start your own business.