Keep Moving In The Right General Direction

Here is some career advice by longtime Silicon Valley executive Ben Fathi in his post What I Learned from Working for Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. An excerpt (bold added):

What I can tell you as a piece of career advice is to only work on things you are passionate about. As long as you’re learning, keep at it. There is so much to learn and this industry moves so quickly that you will fall behind if you stop learning even for an instant.

As long as you’re moving in the right general direction, I used to tell people, it’s all good. Don’t try to plan out your entire road trip from New York to LA before you start out. (If I’d done that, I would have lived an entirely different life — never having even signed up for that first computer science class.) Instead, on your way to LA, just make sure you’re driving in a generally westerly direction, then keep going. And keep learning along the way, course correcting as necessary. You’ll eventually end up in the right place; and you’ll have a lot of fun along the way. I know I did.

You could make parallels between career and financial advice. Keep yourself moving in the right direction. As long as you’re learning, your career will progress. As long as you keep saving and investing in quality productive assets, your portfolio will grow over time. If you find something you don’t mind working feverishly on for 60-80 hours a week (ideally when you are young and don’t have a family to ignore), go for it. Add in some luck, and both your career and finances will be zooming along. If you aren’t zooming right now, don’t worry. Just keep moving forward in the right general direction.