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.
Seated at my desk, I am seen to be typing. Typing is good because typing is doing something, but something is just that: nothing in particular. No person can be equally productive at all parts of the day (or night). Personally, I am at my best in the morning, so I get in early and start before everyone else. I think the point is to understand yourself, and work with that. Staying in the office till 11 p.m. every night won’t mean much if you’re not getting anything out of it. And it won’t mean much to your boss either.
Lauren Ami MacDonald is a Copywriter at The Secret Little Agency, Singapore. She’s got a lot to say about the advice she’s collected.