Is the Career Advice You're Following Actually Holding You Back?

A lot of the career advice being passed around was built for a labor market that no longer exists. Here is a list of claims to question, and what to do instead.

A few weeks ago, I ran a survey of 360 Work Rewritten community members. One theme dominated the responses:

What bad career advice am I following?

Or more specifically:

How do I reconcile the advice I’m getting from parents, mentors, and college career centers with the job market I’m actually experiencing?

And occasionally, more bluntly:

How do I politely ge…