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A young person should worry about building a rounded intellectual inner life rather than about their career, because they will spend their whole life inside their own head.
Holds DHDan Houser
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Young people should not think in terms of a career at all: a career is imposed on you, while a calling comes from within and transcends it.
Holds NONeri Oxman
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Junior hiring matters more in an AI world, not less, because younger people are more open-minded and more native to the new ways of working.
Holds ESElizabeth Stone
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The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel.
Holds JKJeff Kaplan
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If you are not willing to try hard, do things yourself and dig deeper, you should know what you are getting yourself into before betting a career on tech.
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Anyone choosing a career should work out where the money comes from and what value they add; asking the question at all puts you ahead of your peers.
Holds GSGrant Sanderson
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A company should manufacture fresh internal challenges for its best people, because the alternative is that they go and find those challenges at another company.
Holds TPThuan Pham
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A career is not built by searching for jobs but by accumulating a reputation slowly, so that when you become available the opportunities come to you.
Holds TPThuan Pham
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Adolescence, not the first three years of life, is the period that matters most for how a brain turns out.
Holds CRCharan Ranganath