The worst career advice that you get from people is when they say stuff like “you need to take control of your career, you need make sure you get what is coming to you, no one is going to care about you the way you do, so you need to make sure you fight for all of this stuff”, etc, etc. Those are all terrible advises.
Your job, whatever your job is, is to add value to your employer. It is not your job to try to extract value from your employer and try to get as much of it into your pocket. Rather, your job is to add as much value as you can for the employer and then you can capture some of that value.
Contrary to what most people think, being underpaid is a very powerful position to be in. Because, if you are adding more value than you are costing then it means also means that you are a very valuable employee. And if your employer is rational, you are going to be treated well.
Nobody has ever gotten fired for creating too much value for their employer. And nobody keeps a job very long if they are getting paid more than they are worth.
This text was adapted from a podcast interview with legendary investor Bill Miller on Master in Business. The whole podcast is well worth the listen
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