New work for The Wall Street Journal, who argues that recent graduates and other new hires should spend less time chasing their dream jobs and more exploring opportunities in front of them, which might be disguised as low-level tasks. Author Bonnie Hammer recounts learning her profession from the inside out by doing a lot of unglamorous grunt work. All that work ultimately prepared her for a role that others might consider a “dream job”.

Long ago, I gave up on my dream of playing centerfield for the Mets and settled for the life of an illustrator so maybe this isn’t a terrible tip.