Build resources that let you wait for better opportunities.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
The ability to wait is one of the least discussed advantages. Without reserves you take the first workable offer, because you have to, and the first workable offer is rarely the best one available. With reserves you can decline and let something better arrive.
Build whatever cushion you can, framed not as security but as patience. Even a few months of runway changes which opportunities you are able to consider, and that difference compounds across a career.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What did you accept early because you could not afford to wait?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.