DISCLAIMER: If this article looks familiar, it’s because we first published it on 18 Nov 2019. We’ve made some major edits to ensure it's still relevant in 2024.  When we first entered the workforce in the early 2010s, there weren't a lot of Singaporean sites offering career advice. That’s why after ten years in the workforce, we thought we’d look back and write something for our former selves. We’ll be the first to admit it. Some of these lessons were not easy to learn and even harder to accept. We would have scorned some of them when we were younger, more prideful versions of ourselves. But as the saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. We spent close to a decade being clueless salarymen. Don’t repeat our mistakes. Mistake 1: Being afraid to leave a toxic job because you “haven’t stayed long enough You joined a company only to find out within a week you were sold a false dream....