Ask HN: What's your best career advice for fresh employees?

Are you sure success in the corporate world is what you want?

This x1000. Before you plan the next 10 years of your life in a certain direction, spend some time ensuring thats actually the direction you want to take.

Edit: Will also add, for entry-level success in the corporate world, learn to do what your told, without hesitance or question.

Read books -- biographies can be especially helpful - Andy Grove, Bill Gates, James Dyson, and Steve Jobs come to mind.

Scott Admas has an interesting reading list to make you make influential/successful > http://blog.dilbert.com/post/129784168866/the-persuasion-rea...

can you clarify/define "corporate world"? which is the other world?