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4 Highly Underrated Careers Lessons That Will Make You Successful from Working at a Start-Up
What to do and what not to do
When I was 18 I told my parents that I was not going to university, I was met with widened eyes filled with worry and fear.
See, in my community going on to get a university degree was the common rite of passage straight after high school. What I did want to do was something a bit more unconventional.
Why? I intuitively knew that exposing yourself to new experiences is the best teacher.
So I landed myself in a start-up, and unknowingly I was learning lessons in business that my degree wouldn’t have taught me.
Here are four that will help you at any point in your career as it helped in mine:
1. Don’t tell people how old you are when you’ve just started and here’s why
Communication is as much about what to say as well as what not to say. I was 18 and fresh out of school, I knew that — but nobody else did. There was power in that, people didn’t assume my professionalism or background.
When you’ve just come out of the school system you need to go through a process of unlearning…
