Question of the week: What's the best career advice you ever received?

"You can't get what you don't ask for" is probably the best advice I ever received. Also, it's up to you to be ready for new opportunities.

One of the best thing I read in Pragmatic Programmer book is "It is your life. You own it. You run it. You create it."

Believe in yourself.

You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.

"Believe in yourself more so than you think you do."

In my very first sales job, I was told that my time is the most important thing to protect - spend time with leads where there is mutual benefit and don't be afraid to close off conversations are heading nowhere. Seems counter-intuitive to the idea that salespeople should pester until you buy but poor time management is a daily struggle!

"You don't have to impress people right when you enter a company, they will likely return only envy and doubts. Give the best of yourself when you're about to quit." I know this piece of advice is quite controversial, and I still question it occasionally. But somehow it works.

"Something is better than nothing" is the advice that changed my life. Some dude on discord told me this.

Back in my visual effects days my creative director always used to say "Suggest 3 options to the client. The one they reject, the one you're okay with doing and the one you would enjoy doing. When they land on a second one, you can convince them the third one is better".

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take