Advises that have deeply impacted yourlife

Hi steemians,

You will probably have receive a tip or piece of advise that was mind blowing, transformed your life or improved your career path or life. In any case I would like you to come and gave everyone that might eventually read this even future generations a safe place to read them.

I was given a great advised once and it really ramp up my professional career in the most interesting way.
I was around 21 years old and I was trying to find a place where to do my graduation project as a key project to be able to graduate. Most of the students in my class were already signing contracts in major companies and top brands which made a bit nervous. Some of them were even hired right away and started to received some salary. It could be that most of them were already earning something or I was paying way too much attention to what they were now achieving and the fear to fall behind that pushed to pursue some of the stuff they were already receiving.

I kept on looking for places but then I had the word benefits, amount of money and even technologies to develop but I was not paying attention to how I was preparing to get interviewed or which things were important to my career growth besides money, in fact now I consider it to be a reward of your previous growth rather than your right to earn.

I was then interviewed by a small company that was innovating in open source technology, using Joomla which seemed to be a big deal at the time and using technologies I was interested but It was the truly the beginning of my professional growth. The owner of the company asked me:

What are you expecting from this job? What do you want to ear and can you do? Literally show me.

I was really paralyzed and then I thought I was like asking a genie what I wanted. Today I believe I received more. I asked I wanted this amount of money and I also want a flexible schedule and I want to get certifications and I also want to blah blah.. you know how it goes. But after hearing for a while and then he asked me:

Do you know how much is that developer earning? Pointed out a very experienced developer (from I could get from his stickers, books and look) and then he told me:

You should learn first and then think of money

That was the piece of advise that really got me started in improving my professional growth and formed most of my career path. I was not hired but this is the few times that I really did bad in an interview and then walk away with a smiley in my face. I believe that day he gave me more that he could've with a job offer. I still remember how terribly I felt and how good I felt when he said that.