You can only work for people that you like. If you have a choice never have a job. Some people are toxic avoid them. Professionalism is not enough or the good is the enemy of the great “…After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.” Less is not necessarily more. Style is not to be trusted. How you live changes your brain. Doubt is better than certainty. On aging. Tell the truth.
You can read ‘Ten Things I have learned’ by Milton Glaser via his website.