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How to Quit Your First Job

Eat Your Crust

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What Do You Learn From Your First Job?

"I like having a lot of direction where they're very clear with what they expect," she says. "Having my manager go over clear expectations for my role and like let me know if I'm doing something well or not good" She adds that in design, it's easy to just be like, hey, can you design this? And then you're like, oh yeah, sure. Okay."

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Speaker 1
Yeah, we
Speaker 2
were actually talking about this a little bit before we started recording, but we were talking about how when you do your first interviews straight out of college, you're like, I'll literally take whatever I could. Yeah. So when recruiters ask you stuff, like what kind of managing style do you prefer or questions like that, you're just like, one at a company that hires me. I will
Speaker 1
take anything. Yeah,
Speaker 2
a manager. Second topic is what did you learn from your first job about your preferred managing style? One
Speaker 1
thing that work doesn't do as well as school is like you don't have as much of the constant feedback. You know, I feel like in school, it's like, oh, I didn't do well in this midterm. So I know that I needed to try harder. Whereas in work, it's a lot more nebulous. So I feel like for me personally, having my manager like go over clear expectations for my role and like let me know if I'm doing something well or not good. That's like super super helpful for me because I'm always just like, I don't know, like I'm writing code but should I
Speaker 3
be doing it faster or slower?
Speaker 1
Because essentially like first job too, you're trying to calibrate to how real people are like in the real world. So like, is it normal to pull all night or
Speaker 3
still? I
Speaker 1
think I learned that kind of similar, I like having a lot of direction like where they're very clear with what they expect, where they're very clear with directions. I think in like design, it's easy to just be like, hey, can you design this? And you're like, oh, what? Like, okay. But if they're like, hey, can you design this? I'm looking for this, this and this. And then you're like, oh yeah, sure. Okay. Otherwise, I find myself just being like, what am I doing? Is this what you're looking for? Yeah. Yeah.

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