Unhinged take from a career coach - stop playing nice. #careeradvice #careergrowth #careergoals

There is a real difference between being kind and being nice, and sometimes if you want to get ahead, you can't always be nice. What's important is that you are always fair, but you need to be putting yourself first because if you don't, then who will? Take the promotion even if someone else in the office really wants it and they're close to you. You deserve it just as much as they do, and if your friendship is that close, you're going to be okay. Leave the corporate that loves you and is so grateful to have you in the team. At the end of the day, you are just a number, and if redundancies start coming out, you're probably going to be affected. Stop doing things for free. If someone is asking you to do a ask for them, that means that they think you're good enough to be paid for it. So get paid for it. Any person that's wanting to get ahead in their career, you're going to come across people that might think you're a bitch, or they might think that you're too much, or they might think that you're too bossy or opinionated. Those things are only true to that person. The person that it matters the most to as to whether that's true or not is you. You know your behavior, your morals and values, and if what you are doing aligns with that, then that's what matters. It's your career, it's not theirs. Always put yourself first.