That’s not our role here, provide our parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings. Our role here is to contribute the best we can to the society. Use our talents and make sure we add the greatest value possible to other people’s lives.

Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn’t have taken care for ourselves, wanted the best for us, continue to care about us and our future, but none of it is good enough a reason to fulfil their dreams/ do everything in order to make them happy/ provide them with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves.

People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and are free to make their own life choices (are not marionettes in the hands of their parents).

Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.

Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process.

Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process..

Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their hard work, are the ones who advance to positions of greater power and responsibility.

The focus should be on becoming a strong andinfluential personality – cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.

In the present day corporate world, it is utmost important to build a personal brand for yourself and anyone who knows the basics of brand-building would know that it is impossible without proper self promotion!

Move out of your comfort zone, develop those necessary skills and go all out for that much needed advancement!

Use social events, social networks and every get-together at work to build a stronger brand YOU!

Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.

Put time and effort to promote your personal brand.

Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere. Right information matters the most. This applies to your work place too.

Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.

Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential.

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.

Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.

Make sure the job you select complements your personal life the best.

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

Itis our ability to have an insight into people thatgives us the power to predict the future.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.

Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review.

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

The goal is to create a “chit,” or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

Job change is a very crucial decision. This decision can make or break your career.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

Your career is your business.

Get into Investment Banking

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.

In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.

Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your ‘work style’ the best.