Giving advice comes very easy to people, including myself. Essentially, you give your opinion on how one should do something, feel about something, or figure something out. You let them know your thoughts and how your way of thinking could do well for them as it has done so for you. However, taking advice is a very different story.
 

You live your life everyday with decisions you must make – from the breakfast you eat to the jobs you apply for to how you get along with people at work. So when someone else gives you some advice, you may enjoy it or downright hate it.
 

The best career advice that I have ever received came from my own two parents, a typical source for advice for most twentysomethings. The advice came at a pretty amazing and terrifying time. I had made the decision to quit my job at a well-known media company in Los Angeles and move in with my then-boyfriend-now-fiancé to Chicago. He had been accepted into medical school, and we were moving to the Windy City together.
 

My parents, to put it mildly, were not happy with the decision. I had an incredible job working with the breaking news team, and I had worked so hard to get to this point. They saw me moving to Chicago as a major mistake, both personally and professionally. I wasn’t married nor engaged. I had limited connections in Chicago and journalism jobs were much tougher to find there than in L.A.
 

In my opinion, I was doing something scary, but also great for myself. I had begun to feel burned out at my job and questioned my career path. I was also tired of living under everyone else’s expectations and having never taken a major risk myself.
 

So. I moved…
 

I moved without any idea of what was going to happen next.
 

Months later, I still had no solid job and I was pretty freaked out. The biggest highlight so far was that I was now engaged, but wedding planning was easily far from my list due to having no real income. Crying randomly during the day was a normal thing. I’d be watching TV and see someone just generally happy and lose it, worrying I had made the biggest mistake of my life.
 

Speaking to my parents was also incredibly tough during this point in my life, as I felt I had completely let them down. But it was at this point where I was given some of the best advice I could have imagined from them. Their advice?
 

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This was a pretty big thing to hear from them, because usually the advice was go for success, to be a leader, conquer! But they knew something I had been trying to figure out for a long time… That is you will never be able to be truly successful if you’re not HAPPY. You can have a great salary and a great title and a shiny business card and impress people on LinkedIn. But when you go home at night, will you be HAPPY?
 

So. I am choosing now to pursue that. I’ve taken a few dips along the way as well as risen up. I’ve made some progress and still have those crazy thoughts of “Oh is this even what I should be doing now?”
 

But what drives me is my parent’s advice. To pursue a career and truly a life that makes me HAPPY. Not iffy or sort of OK or make it to the next paycheck whatever life but truly HAPPY.
 

If you’re sitting there not sure what to do with your career, just think about what would make you happy. You are not going to get everything at once and there will easily be some struggles to get there. But you’ve got at least one other person here to encourage you – thousands here at RIZZARR if we’re being honest – to help guide you on your way.
 

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