Advice on Advice: Take It or Leave It
There’s a tonne of advice out there for juniors wanting to break into the industry — books, blogs, and people wanting to give you their two cents. But advice comes from experience, and experiences are personal. Which means there’s a lot of conflicting advice out there. In a regular column Lauren Ami MacDonald tries to make sense of it all.
Whether it’s professional or personal, relationships don’t always work out. But when you’re hired to partner an existing employee, you’re basically accepting an arranged marriage. Which is great when you want a job and don’t have a partner, but sucks noodle when it doesn’t work. Obviously, you should give it a damn good shot. Not just for yourself, but for your partner, who thought they’d be getting the counterpart of their dreams, but instead ended up with you. I’ve worked with people who have had me thinking, “why is this so hard?”, and others who have had me thinking, “this is the tits”. It’s OK for things not to work out with everyone. How could they? If you don’t think that the partner you’re placed with is someone that creatively makes you stronger, then chances are they’re thinking the same thing. You could always talk to them about it. We do work in communications.