Find the right job in the right field can be such a daunting experience, especially when you just graduated from college. With their own struggles and realizations over the years of moving from one job to another and even shifting careers completely, Nick and Tony have all the right advice to help you find out what’s the best career for you. In this episode, the bros talk about what you should be thinking about when looking for a job, student loans, rejecting life-altering job offers, ladies, and how to Man Up in your career search.

The episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:

• How Nick reframed his thinking about getting a job in line with your college degree vs getting a job that pays the bills (00:06)
• Why are internships important when pursuing a particular field? (03:37)
• Are four-year college degrees still needed with today’s market demands? Nick weighs in on how niching of skills won’t sustain current college education systems. (06:02)
• Nick and Tony discuss the importance of college education despite its big price tag (07:21)
• What are ‘big picture skills’? How do they help you with your future career and decision-making? (09:07)
• What standards does a degree set for your future employers? (11:12)
• How the probability of student loans can help you rethink your choice of field (12:22)
• Are there ways to lessen student loan and unemployment anxieties? (13:51)
• The trade-off of living a good life with a job that pays the bills vs pursuing your dream job (16:22)
• Does having money equate to happiness? (18:09)
• Tony shares how the reasons why he decided against a life-changing job offer (19:42)
• Nick’s pieces of advice for people who are working less-than-ideal jobs (23:02)
• How working different jobs can help you develop your career and figure out what you really want to do with your life (25:24)
• Does doing a job part-time lessen the merit of the worker? Nick shares a story where he found an advantage in doing part-time work. (26:33)
• The one important thing people have to understand and accept when looking for jobs (30:51)
• Why knowing what you want out of your career defines how you move through jobs (33:42)
• Changing your mindset about career and job opportunities (38:35)
• Nick shares what he thinks young men’s biggest distraction is (40:55)
• What kind of jobs ensures that you always have work and control, according to Tony (42:40)
• The hard truth about knowing whether or not you’re ready for a job (44:45)
• If you’re almost at the end of your college education and you still don’t know what to do, maybe it’s time to sit down and reevaluate (48:19)
• How to decide on your future career: use your network, change your mindset, and be flexible (49:30)
• Closing statements (50:59)