Lilly pads of your career

“Lilly pads of your career” is a tag Kyle uses for the question of what a young person should look for in a career — the stepping-stone moves that carry you from one stage to the next, surfaced alongside Career Advice in his notes on Charlie Munger’s talk.

Where this appears

• Charlie Munger — A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom — tagged on the question “What should a young person look for in a career?” alongside Career Advice.

Kyle’s note, June 4th, 2020

• Random Thought Self-aware Lilly pads of your career
  • Alex Spencer has jumped from video sharing to podcast analytics to E-Commerce Tech Roll-Up to medical mask manufacturing to Micro PE software Holding Companies
  • Similar to the question: “Would you rather have a Harvard degree or a Harvard education?”
  • “Would I rather make millions of dollars doing something I don’t enjoy thinking about? Or never become rich but do something I really enjoy?”
  • I have no interest in Alex’s medical mask manufacturing, but if he goes off and makes millions, will I regret not dropping everything and joining him in such a specialty? And I think the answer is no.