<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Garbage In Our Careers</title><link>https://garbagecareers.com/</link><description>The career advice nobody says out loud</description><item><title>Essay 2: The One That Matters Most</title><link>https://garbagecareers.com/essays/the-one-that-matters-most/</link><guid>https://garbagecareers.com/essays/the-one-that-matters-most/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>You must have guessed it. The one that matters is your immediate manager. This is your customer. You have to help this customer succeed. And once your customer succeeds, you succeed. Not always a…</description></item><item><title>Essay 1: The Fundamentals of Success</title><link>https://garbagecareers.com/essays/the-fundamentals-of-success/</link><guid>https://garbagecareers.com/essays/the-fundamentals-of-success/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The toil of labor should not come without professional progress. One of my personal mistakes was focusing solely on competency in my initial years. I believe this stemmed from a college-inspired mindset that conditioned…</description></item><item><title>Prologue</title><link>https://garbagecareers.com/prologue/</link><guid>https://garbagecareers.com/prologue/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Roughly 40% of our waking hours during the ages of 18-65 is spent working, commuting or getting ready for work. If we are depositing such magnitude of time on a side quest, I don’t…</description></item></channel></rss>