1000 Years of Career Advice
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1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Occupational Therapist Pros and Cons – In this post I’ll go through the below pros and cons of being an Occupational Therapist:
Pros
The salary is good
Opportunity to grow
Good variety in the work
Rising demand
It can be rewarding
Cons
Lots of physical activity
You need a strong stomach
Sometimes patients don’t improve
You need good composure
Things can get ugly
As an Occupational Therapist (or an “OT”), you will interact with patients face-to-face and work to better their physical, mental, or emotional state.
You will plan and administer therapy that rehabilitates the patient and allows t ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
I spent three years as an auditor with a big accounting firm straight out of university. I hated it so much!
But now 15 years later I have some perspective and I can see that working as an auditor definitely has some benefits!
In this post, I’ll discuss the following pros and cons:
Pros:
You learn lots
They give you lots of responsibility
You get great exposure
There is a great peer group
It really adds to your CV
They pay can be good
You get to move around
Cons:
The work is really boring
Clients will see you as a pain
It’s not seen as a cool job
Managers and partners can be really anal
You ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Not everyone loves university. For some, it is hard work.
In the below post, I’m going to through some of the things you can do if you hate your degree:
Talk to your lecturers/tutors
Speak to ex graduates
Explore the option of switching degrees
Make a list of things you like and don’t like
List out your options, costs and consequences
Talk to some final year students
Make a study group
Ask yourself if you are enjoying university itself
Don’t compare yourself to other people
Don’t be afraid of dropping out
I Hate My Degree – 1)Talk To Your Lecturers/Tutors
Don’t just suffer alone.
Inste ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
How To Progress Your Career – there are many things you can do.
Some people work longer hours, or take on more work but does it really get them anywhere?
The below are smart ways to progress your career:
Constantly work on your people skills
Figure out what is important to senior management
Get a sponsor
Learn how to simplify complex info
Don’t get stuck in the detail
Feedback
Use the 80/20 rule
Make lots of contacts
Get experience in many different types of roles
How To Progress Your Career – 1) Constantly Work On Your People Skills
Some people don’t have great interpersonal skills. Many pe ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Should You Love Your Job?
According to the graduates I interviewed in my book ‘1000 Years Of Career Advice’, yes you should!
The book interviews 100 graduates 10 years on from university about their career paths and advice for the younger generation.
In the book, the interviewees offer lots of different pieces of career advice, one that kept coming up again and again was:
‘Do something you enjoy doing, you will excel at it, and you won’t see it as work’
For this blog post, I’m going to take a cross-section of the interviewees and talk about why they advise doing something you enjoy. You will ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Vet Pros and Cons -> Becoming a veterinarian offers a rewarding career, but it is not without issues. For those who have chosen this profession, the rewards can be considerable.
The below are ten revealing insights into the world of the veterinarian. Hopefully, this will help you better understand this profession before you make the decision about whether to become a vet.
Pros:
Excellent pay
Working with animals
Lots of demand for vets
Every day is different
Job satisfaction
Cons:
Long expensive training
Treating sick animals
Surgery
Dealing with pet owners
Long hours
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1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Dentist Career Pros And Cons -> Dentistry is one of the most sought-after professions in the medical field.
In this post, I’ll go through 5 pros and 5 cons of having a career as a dentist:
Pros:
The salary is great
You can be your own boss
High demand
No two days are alike
You can set your own hours
Cons:
High cost
Education committments
Pressure
Being on call
You are responsible
Pros:
There are many excellent reasons to become a dentist:
Dentist Career Pros And Cons – Pro #1: The Salary is Great
Being a dentist is not easy money. You will earn every dollar through education, hard work ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) measures two pervasive, independent dimensions of personality, Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism-Stability, which account for most of the variance in the personality domain. Each form contains 57 “Yes-No” items with no repetition of items. The inclusion of a falsification scale provides for the detection of response distortion. The traits measured are Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism. When you fill out Eysenck’s Personality Inventory (EPI) you get three scores.
The ‘lie score’ is out of 9. It measures how socially desirable yo ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Bill Gates Career Advice #1: Surround Yourself With The Best
“Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self,”
As the best selling author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn says;
“You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”
If you spend time or work with people better then you then you will be pulled up to their level, and vice versa.
That’s why you should always strive to study at the best universities and work for the best companies as you will learn from the best.
Bill Gates Career Advice #2: Finding Out What You’re Good At ..read more
1000 Years of Career Advice
3y ago
Do you think that once you finish university you will start earning big cash? Or that you will be qualified in your chosen profession? Do you think you’ve done the hard part?
Thats what myself and lots of my friends though when we graduated 14 years ago.
If you want to be recognised by a professional body, i.e. Law, Accounting, Medicine, etc, school and university is the easy part!
Lots of my friends did tough degrees like medicine and law only to find out that there was multiple exams and years of work experience ahead of them.
I know loads of people who failed exams and dropped out because w ..read more