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Warren Buffett | Should you take a job without knowing the salary?

Should you take a job without knowing the salary?
Should you take a job without knowing the salary?

Quite often finding out the salary before attending an interview or accepting a job offer is one of the first things most individuals will do.

While salary is incredibly important, to ensure a new role will cover the costs of the commute, living and the luxuries, business magnate Warren Buffett believes that this can in fact be detrimental to someone’s career, and you should instead work for someone you respect.

In fact, Buffett stands by this advice so much that when he started out his career before he made his millions, he took a job with his mentor Benjamin Graham, without asking what the salary would be, reports CNBC.

In an interview with author Gillian Zoe Segal in 2015, he said he ‘found that out at the end of the month when I got my pay check’.

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