BEST Advice you have ever received in your life.
Hi guys,
I just wanted to know what the best advice was you have ever received - the typ of advice that you recall everytime you have to master a difficult situtation...
I am surprised this thread hasn't received any responses yet so I will share my experience. Over the years, I've received a ton of good advice but one, which I can't quote but did get the gist of, really did it for me.
You know why spoiled kids are so messed up in the head? It's because they never had to earn anything in their lives. We live in a culture where being lazy is considered cool and working hard is seen as some sort of a crime, it's messed up. Hard work and success that comes from it is the joy of life, one of the best you can experience. The spoiled kids will never know that joy which is why they're so messed up in the head. You see, it is the moments where we are on the edge after having done something and waiting for its results, our hearts beating and just knowing that the decision to come have a big impact on our lives, those moments make life worth living. Without such moments, life would not be exciting at all, we would become jaded.
I wish I received that advice before entering college, wouldn't have ruined my transcript. Throughout college I was too busy trying to emulate the spoiled party animals and hardly paid much attention to my grades. I hated my major (Biology) but was forced into it by forceful parents, it was hell.
Now I am 25 and spend every day planning for my career while working as a lab tech during the weekdays and bartender during the weekends, just to get close to clearing 50k yearly. I have been planning on grad school but the whole mess is going to take some time to fix. Even though that is the case, I do feel like once I make it, the struggle now will make it all even more enjoyable.
Cheers for spending your Saturday nights on WSO.
Thanks for pointing that out lol, couldn't get the night shift at the bar so I had to work the day shift instead.
That's not really that bad.
Have you looked into sales roles a big companies.... Oracle,SAP (tech sales)..... Recruiting? If you kill it in those positions it is also very lucrative.
They could give two shits about what degree you have or what your GPA is/was.
I will look into it right now, software sales is something I've read about but I am having issues on how to actually reach out to people in that industry. Thanks!
make spreadsheets to track resource consumption ie. money, food, time.
Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to your other thread, but it fits in here to0.
Don't accidentally knock someone up.
Determine what your morals, principles and all that other stuff are. Know whats your willing to compromise on and what you will absolutely not deviate from.
Avoid slippery slopes, maybe someone reading this with more experience can throw some out. ie.tit for tat
“It don’t stop ’til the casket drop"
"Never burn a bridge on Wall Street" - Dick T.
"Believe it"
"Never burn a bridge"
"read this http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/6-real-habits-ive-observed-from-s…" - Papa Harambe
“Don’t let Krusty’s death get you down, boy, people die all the time. Just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. Well, goodnight.”
"There's no cure for being a cunt"
"Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings"
'Whatever you do, do it well - be humble, work hard and be a man'
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
I could eat a kilo of doritos cool original(irony) with that stuff you just typed.
My input: There's loads of lessons we should learn. My fav is "don't bite the hand that feeds you" and "do you"
awesome stuff
"$11k is shit money."
Life's not fair.
A salesman once told me that to sell something, you often have to get the person to like you. To get someone to like you, you have to get them to talk most of the time. When someone talks most of the time and you listen, they begin to like you. They think you're a great person. He said his optimal ratio was 80/20. 80% listening, 20% talking.
He told me that in NYC in 2011. Been using it ever since. Never forget the importance of listening. Selling or not selling, or if just at a cocktail party or something, if you're getting bored of someone talking, just remember their words and experience are important to them. Their words are investments in you. They value you being there. This is how deals are made and relationships forged. It is trust building as well. Don't forget it.
I wanna be a salesman and this is awesome advice.
yeah start to notice how it is hard NOT TO purchase something when the employee has a very friendly manner and seems likeable.
GOLD
Always marry a woman for her personality. The reason so is because all women have at least a dozen personalities and you are bound to like a couple of them.
There's nothing you can't learn. Take a structured approach then redline.
"Don't be an idiot." Changed my life
Some good advice I have received is to keep putting yourself in uncomfortable situations. That's how you learn.
"Losers focus on Winners, Winners focus on winning."
It doesn't matter what you do - just be at the top of whatever you do.
Best advice I have ever received- look for the good in people. Helps me to have empathy, good people skills and overall makes me a happier and kinder person.
If the river runs red, take the dirt road home.
Don't take a dump on someone else's life, especially when they are doing all they can to get by.
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