The best career advice I have:

Be kind. To everyone.

@Sheril This is just so important and vital, good advice ^^
@Sheril Best career advice, best relationship advice, best karma advice. I love it.
@Sheril .You are too decent & magnanimous Sheril. God bless โค๏ธ you.๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‘
@Sheril agreed!๐Ÿ‘

@drdelle @Sheril

This advise should be issued as a reminder for people before starting their daily work routine.

@TatianaIlyina @Sheril "What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other" -- George Eliot (really like that sentence, use it as mail signature)
@drdelle @TatianaIlyina @Sheril in some companies the opposite is true, maybe per ignorance, inertia, negligence, resistance to change, etc. All we can do is preach with example.
@drdelle @TatianaIlyina @Sheril Oh, I did too for a while. (Not that I got bored with it - I just change sigs regularly.)

@Sheril
Great career advice and great life advice

I say to my kids (when they are being horrid): kindness, kindness, kindness and kindness

@Sheril

So true! ๐Ÿ‘  

(out of millions of reasons)

@Sheril you never know who you will cross path with again in the future. Better to stay in good term always ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธโœŒ๏ธ
@Sheril Agreed. You don't have to like everyone, but that doesn't stop you being kind to everyone. Not everyone likes you, but that doesn't matter as long as they're kind.

@Sheril

Itโ€™s good advice.
Iโ€™m still figuring out how to deal with people that mistake kindness for weaknessโ€ฆ Those that would exploit kindness for sport, piss me off.

@situok @Sheril Quite. That whole Cobra Kai "mercy is for the weak" thing has it backwards. Kindness, compassion and mercy are signs of strength.

@robinturner @Sheril

Iโ€™d like to think that my default settings is something resembling pleasant and friendlyโ€ฆ

It takes negative stimuli of some sort to trigger ๐Ÿ† mode..

Iโ€™m only human.
We all have our boundaries and limits.

@Sheril

Best life advice ๐Ÿ˜Š

@Sheril And if you can't be kind, best say nothing at all.
@Sheril I used to have "Integrity, Competency, #Kindness " listed on my resume as my core values, but a career coach told me to take off kindness because it would wig out hiring managers who would think I was a radical nutjob. How did kindness become a marker of radical nutjob? Have they seen Twitter lately? Is a lot of kindness going on there? #kindness #corevalues #hr #hiring #phr #shrm #sphr #aptd

@Sheril Excellent advice. May I add: always think of yourself as self employed, a contractor. As we are seeing in the news corporations have no obligation to keep you employed. Learn to be your own boss.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men, Charles de Gaulle once remarked.

@Sheril so many people fail at this. Was just thinking yesterday how disturbing it is that bullies still exist in adult workplace

@Sheril

Be kind. But take no sh*t.

:)

@Sheril Not only us it the best thing to do, but kindness really will take you places. Lots of people will give you that shot if you're kind and wait for a chance.
@Sheril these are good words to live by, IMO, but curious why this is posed as career advice. Will it lead to greater material or other success?
One in five #ceoโ€™s are on the psychopath spectrum, and #corporations & #corporateculture lack #conscience, and only show regard for employee/consumer rights and interests as required by law, or to remain competitive in labor and economic markets.
Some of the richest, most powerful and respected people are arrogant antisocial A-holes
@tolortslubor @Sheril it's probably true that kindness is an impediment to attaining top positions you were never going to attain anyway
@Sheril I guess that's not a good advice for army men ๐Ÿ˜‹
@Sheril โ€œBe kind to others. Love your family. And always take care of yourself.โ€Someone I follow on the bird-sounding platform posted this after a personal tragedy. Never forgot it.
@Sheril I got fired from Ron's Repo Service for that.
@Sheril A friend of mine used to have this tagline in his emails:
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
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@Sheril this might sound cynical but it's easier to be kind than to work hard - i think i avoided getting fired at some jobs simply because they liked me even if i was lazy as a 20 year old greyhound
@Sheril You never know who might be asked about you some day.
@Sheril Including your competitors, who someday may be your colleagues.

@Sheril

That's a great goal but not achievable by most of us in this age of fascism. Musk, MTG, Gosar, DeSantis, False Idol, Koch, Thiel, Jordan. .. the list goes on. Very difficult to keep balance and seeing beyond their hatred and policies that instigates violence and horrific suffering.

@Sheril The one that always stuck with me:

"Don't be an arsehole. Share what you know."

@Sheril "Listen more, talk less."
@Sheril I really wish I could remember where it comes from, but there is a saying to "Bring your whole self to work" which I personally buy into, but I definitely think it needs to be tempered with "Be nice always" for sure
@Sheril It canโ€™t be said better!

@Sheril I think that is more like life advice. Career advice would be like:

"Try and always work towards learning something new in your profession."

I am a Knowledge Management Specialist in IT if I stop learning new stuff I am dead.

@Sheril

My version is a little less ambitious.

Donโ€™t be an asshole.

@Sheril I try to, but i can make exceptions to people i see being consistently, and apologetically not being kind, they can learn the difference between nice and being weak. But yeah, being kind should be the default, even if it sometimes cost, it's just way better for everybody.
@Sheril Good advice. Difficult to practice...
@Sheril And especially the secretaries/clerks.
@Sheril Remember the saying? "Be kind always, be kind all ways.โค๏ธ"
@Sheril Thank you for the reminder. Stay well
@Sheril I once Heard that the people that you meet when you are going up are the same you meet you are going down
@Sheril For careers and for life. ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ
@Sheril My father's maxim: "Always be nice." And by that, he meant for us to actually *be* nice.
@Sheril I would add "Be Curious"