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Career Advice is a topic that I have always found interesting, probably because I feel it so often misses the mark. Here are seven pieces of career advice I shared with my 22-year-old reader. If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. For Mark Twain, the frog is the thing you don't want to do.

I recently got a message from a 22-year-old reader asking for career advice. Career advice is a topic area that I have always found interesting, probably because I feel it so often misses the mark. I take this as a challenge.

I sat down and synthesized the advice I would have wanted to receive early in my career (or what I would tell my own son if he were just starting out).

The 7 pieces of career advice everyone needs to hear: (1) Swallow the frog, (2) Do the old fashioned things well, (3) Work hard first and smart later, (4) Build storytelling skills, (5) Build a rep for figuring it out, (6) Show up early and stay late, and (7) Dive through cracked doors.