Surviving in the Corporate World
* Be a team player
– This sometimes means doing boring work

* Pay your dues
– New grads will often be given simple, boring tasks at first– Don’t complain about boring task – your time will come!

* Act professionally when dealing with other groups in the company
– Be nice, even if others are not being nice
– Resist getting angry
– Don’t attack others
– Focus on solving the technical problem at hand

* Don’t try to save the world
– the world doesn’t want saved!
– Report what you find to your manager, let him/her save the world
– Just make sure your piece of the world works OK!* Learn all you can from the senior designers in your group– Education doesn’t stop with college
– It’s up to you to make sure you understand how things work– Learn all parts of doing design