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Advice For the Young at Heart
Originally published on LinkedIn as part of the #IfIWere22 series
In the spirit of the #IfIWere22 series, here’s my advice for 22-year-olds and the advice I wish I had been given at that age.
When I was 22, I had just graduated from college and was working at a dead-end retail job on the East Side of Cleveland. I had no dreams. I had no aspirations. No goals. There was no internet. No Facebook. No online job searching. You still had to look at the want ads if you were seeking employment.
If you wanted to own your own business you either bought an existing business or started something out of your home. You couldn’t make money selling things on eBay or Etsy. You couldn’t start a blog and litter it with Amazon ads. You couldn’t get a job in social media doing the same things you were already doing at home all day. To make a movie you needed a real camera with actual film, not just a GoPro or an iPhone.
Life is exponentially easier now. I get my dry cleaning picked up and dropped off by Tide Cleaners. I traverse the city via Uber. My groceries come from Instacart. I get job openings emailed to me every morning from LinkedIn and Indeed. I trade stocks free on my phone using Robinhood. And I run errands using Zipcar.
All this being as it may, my advice to myself or anyone else at the ripe young…
