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The Unwritten Rules of Work: 4 Years In, 10 Rules I’ve Learnt
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Day one. Suited and booted. You have waited your entire life for this moment. All your education, late nights in the library have led up to this point and you are here. Ready to take the working world by storm.
Little do we know what’s actually in store for us.
When you start work everything is new. The first time you walk through the doors and think “I’m getting paid for this” is a pretty nice feeling. Regardless of where you start (and everyone starts somewhere), it’s a nice acknowledgement that you have entered the working world. Don’t worry though, the novelty soon wears off of course but in that very moment, you feel like a fully-function adult.
It’s pretty exciting stuff.
However, quite quickly you realise that the working world has a number of unwritten rules. Rules that you are expected to just know, they aren’t detailed anywhere (trust me I’ve looked). You will get them wrong, I did, everyone does.
This article is written with hopes of passing the torch, to you, if you’ve just started work. Hopefully, it will give you a list of things to look out for. A list to be at the very least, aware of.
