Enjoy being in school. Savor the ability to learn, and use the opportunity to establish a firm vision for what you want your working life to look like. It’s better to craft your own vision before someone else crafts it for you.
The reality that arrives on your doorstep shortly after graduating is this -- the working world today is in a sorry state, defined by workaholics and counter-productivity. Those already entrenched in it will unintentionally pass their beliefs off to you, should you let them.
Your automatic response may be to match their stride. After all, you are the new guy, aren’t you? Who are you to question the rules of this new working world?
Question away because that’s the precise thing the broken working world needs. Insist on being relentless in pursuit of your vision. To many, you will look entirely unreasonable. Keep forging ahead. A lack of so-called reasonability is the precise thing we need to change the tide.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
