19: Career Advice: Why Millennials Need To Carry The Water

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Today we’re talking career advice. But this career advice is going to be unpopular among the millennial crowd. Everyone wants a mentor, or someone to “pick their brain over coffee." Everyone wants to become an executive overnight. But first, you need to carry the water. You need to put in your time. Here’s what no one ever tells you early in your career: you actually have two jobs. The first job? Crushing your job. Your day-to-day to work. The things you were hired for. Your second job? Managing up and making the life of your manager or boss easier. That’s what we’re talking about today on Seeking Wisdom. Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io/ Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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0:00.0	Today on Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about carrying the water.
0:13.7	Boom, I'm scared today.
0:15.8	I've never seen Dave this fired up.
0:17.8	Get ready, people.
0:18.5	I am fired up. I am fired up.
0:27.2	Okay. Dave, this fired up. Get ready, people. I am fired up. I am fired up. All right.
0:27.8	So we're going to talk about carrying the water.
0:30.2	And basically, that's an old saying that most of us know, which is for people when
0:37.2	they're getting started early in their career to
0:39.1	actually spend time carrying the water of those above them, whether that's mentors, whether
0:45.1	that's the people in their workplace, whoever it is, and basically learning through the
0:50.4	age-old apprentice method. And the reason that this came up recently is that we always talk about the grind here.
0:57.5	And I noticed something, you know, when talking to other founders and other people of a certain
1:03.4	vintage, aka old, that it seemed like a lot of people that they were dealing with at work
1:10.4	or their colleagues who
1:11.7	were, you know, just out of school, fresh out of school, had a different set of expectations for
1:17.4	how quickly their career would progress. Yeah. So when you mentioned this idea, when you
1:22.3	mentioned this to me, I didn't know what you meant by carrying the water at first. And then
1:25.9	you explained it to me. I'm a big
1:28.4	sports fan and so the analogy for me was a lot of times the rookies at training camp on a hot
1:34.5	100 degree day, they got to carry the pads of the veterans after practice. They got to carry their
1:41.5	shit. Yep. Bringing into the locker room. And so that's what you said. You said, yeah, it's that. And that's true in sports and the military and way long ago and in the workplace. I don't know, doing things for your parents. Exactly. There's just so many things. And we're going to talk about all of them because this is a topic that gets me fired up. but you basically were just saying like, you know, early in your career, we talked about this back and forth. Earlier, you kind of have two jobs, right? You kind of have like, you have a job of you have to do your work. Yep. You have to be good at your job. Whatever. You're a designer, right? You have to be amazing designer. You got to, you know, create value for the company
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