Career Advice That Actually Works (According To Boris Johnson)

Boris Johnson has been made Foreign Secretary in Theresa May's Brexit Government.

Career Advice That Actually Works (According To Boris Johnson)

by Vicky Spratt |
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You know that feeling when you’ve really messed up at work? Perhaps you’ve sent an email to the wrong person, missed a deadline or slightly missed the mark on something. You go home with a sinking feeling in your stomach, try in vain to shake it off overnight and wake up the next day still convinced you’re going to get fired, finally exposed as being totally incompetent and never going to work anywhere again.

You’d think that would be how Boris Johnson felt after he, quite literally, compared the European Union to Hitler. Or when he woke up the morning after Britain voted for Brexit and realised he’d been spouting rhetoric without a plan for months. And when he organised a press conference to announce that he would be running for leader of the Conservative party before pulling out, ostenisbly because Michael Gove defected from his team, started his own campaign and said that he didn’t think Boris was the right man for a job.

We’ll never know how it really feels to be Boris Johnson but we can marvel at his bouncebackability. Nothing sticks to him. He is Teflon. He, like a political Lazarus, is able to raze his career from the dead. He is the comeback King, he’s turned his story from Decline and Fall to The Rise and Rise of Boris Johnson. He’s never once compromised his (questionable) personal brand and he’s your new Foreign Secretary.

You've spent years interning for a pittance and applying for job after job and Boris Johnson just goes and does it...just like that. Perhaps it’s time that we all started to take career advice from him? There’s a lot that we can learn from him:

Boris Johnson’s been living life like it’s golden by the above rules for 52 years and he seems to be doing OK. So cut yourself some slack, kick back and relax. Stop trying so hard. In fact, just go home.

Here’s how the world has reacted to the news of Boris’s new job:

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Disclaimer: obviously don’t do any of the above, unless you really want to lose friends and alienate people

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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.

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