I saw this article in the paper the other day. It was on the front page of a section about careers.
Don’t worry if you can’t read it. In fact, it’s really good that you can’t read it. Because it’s really really bad advice. It’s the kind of horrible advice that promotes victim thinking. It’s the kind of advice that explains exactly why 80% of American’s report disliking their jobs. And the funniest part is that this article was written by the same company that did that study – CareerBuilder!
Let’s go through each of the 7 pieces of advice, and I’ll tell you what they SHOULD have said (which is the opposite of what they did say).