10 Career Mistakes That You Can Easily Avoid

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“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” — Warren Buffet

In the last decade, I went from student to entrepreneur to freelancer to climbing the corporate ladder to blogger to teacher.

Yes, that’s not a normal career path, and it’s also not what I ever expected. But life hardly turns out the way you expect.

That’s because we’re only human. And humans make mistakes.

Recently I received an email from a reader. He asked about my biggest career mistake.

That got me thinking. And writing. A lot.

And after writing more than 2000 words about my career mistakes, I thought: “Wow dude, you’ve made every single mistake you possibly could.”

Anyway, I’ve cut out the obvious stuff and I made a list of my top 10 mistakes. I hope that one of the points is useful to you.

1. Assuming That Your Career Is Linear

That is, by far, the most important lesson I’ve learned. Firstly, I’ve learned that assumptions are always bad. We collectively assume a lot of things without ever asking or researching.

One of those assumptions is that careers progress linearly. Who ever said that? When I think…