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More than anything, these come to mind:
Don't ever let yourself believe anyone owes you anything. Don't empower yourself to deserve anything beyond the norm. All the same, don't be a pushover either. Everyone's been through that "new graduate, world-by-the-tail" phase, and you snap out of it until you realize you actually have to work hard and pay your dues before you're established/steady/respected/und... It seems that as time wears on, younger people feel they deserve more and more when they're only at the starting line. Out there like everyone else. All the talent in the world but a clean slate as far as what they'll do with it.
Sadly, this is exactly what they won't teach you in college, unless you have a great professor that can see enough in you to give you some extra advice about what the real world is like. I really think that many schools these days are terribly lacking in professional preparation for students to at least somehow introduce them to certain elements of the working and business world.
Granted, all that can be applied to much more than design jobs. I'm partly speaking from experiences of my own here. I've been working towards a new job since August and got exactly what I was hoping to get and started last week. Along the way I found copies of the very first resumes I was sending after graduation in 2001 and especially when I moved to Chicago. Hilarious stuff, you have no idea.
Anyhow, that's my 10 cents. I think more than anything you have to realize that you're going to be working for a long time to a) be successful, and b) survive - so if you can head down a good path from the beginning, good things can and will happen.
- should say "and you snap out of it when you realize you actually have work to do..."mg33