Dr. Roger Smith, CTO for PEO STRI, asked me a very thought provoking question:
"What one piece of career advice would you write on the back of your business card? Imagine that you are about to give your business card to a young person entering your profession. But first, you turned that card over and wrote a short piece of advice to help them get started in their career. What would you write on the back of your own business card to help this person? "
If you would like to see the results of Dr. Smith's queries and/or provide your career advice that would go on the back of a business card, then please go to this site.:
Dr. Roger Smith's Advice on Back of a Business Card Site
I think it is very cool that Dr. Smith is doing this because the type of advice that I saw others provide are priceless!
My personal response was the following:
I do have three things that I tell any young person, four things if I think they will listen and five things if I know them.For any young person, my career advice is:
1) Life is short.
2) Death is certain.
3) If you do not make your own decisions now, time will make them for you.
If I think they are listening to me:
4) Always pay yourself first. I tell the story about the importance of compound interest using the twins story on my blog.
NOTE: The entry above is from the presentation that I give to Colleges and Unviversities.
If I know them well or their parents well, then I add the final piece of advice:
5) Never, EVER, sleep with someone who has MORE problems than you do.
