Career Advice from Dilbert

Scott Adams, the creator of the wonderfully funny (and scarily accurate) Dilbert comic strip shares his advice on how to have a successful life.

If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary... become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

Jack of All Trades.....

‘Man is the only animal that has bothered to work out half-a-dozen quite different ways of swimming, yet we are stillthe slowest of all swimming animals.’
-Miles Kington.

Two points from this great quote.

1. It's no use being an all rounder if you are useless at everything.

2. Don't reinvent stuff that has already been invented. Look around at your competitors, colleagues, friends and allies. If they've done it before, borrow it.