Dajia Picks

The market throws a 34567, but you should have been collecting your cards three years ago so that by now you’d have a 45678 ready to play. The question is, would you have collected those cards back then? No, just like you didn’t study properly when you were younger. You only realize the value of studying hard after you graduate and can’t find a job.
You only start panicking when the market actually throws a 34567, wondering why on earth you don’t already have a 45678.

As you climb higher, people become more like zombies. Because there's no real "you" left—you've disappeared entirely, leaving behind only a position, or rather, an ecological niche. Whoever sits in that role has to become the exact same thing.

Meanwhile, grassroots employees are wonderfully diverse—people of every stripe, with every kind of idea. Each one is a vibrant, living, breathing person with a unique face.

No matter how great your resources are, they can give you endless opportunities to showcase yourself, but they can’t walk the long road of honing your craft or change your audience’s preferences.

More often than not, it’s not about what you want to do—it’s about what you can actually do.