As someone at the other end of their career , looking back at where I started , the best advice I can give is always chase your dreams . Sounds pretty cliche , but motivation is the number one ingredient to success . Don ' t be too stressed about longterm employability , so long as you ' re flexible you ' ll always find work . I went through 3 redundancies in a small industry without many players , and always landed on my feet , often in a very different role . The change in responsibilities reinvigorated my interest in my work . An opportunity at an interesting company like ML might be the only thing that could tempt me to cancel my early retirement ! <| sep |> I would like to make a formal request to ban the word ' cuck ' unless you can tell me what it means and how the person you are calling a cuck is a cuck .