“You should stay in a union job. If you don’t, the union can’t protect you anymore”.

Terrible advice from a union rep many years ago after I got hired to a management position. I ended up tripling my salary within 5 years after leaving the union position and then started my own adjacent business that I eventually built up to 2M/yr revenue.

If I stayed in the union job I would be making $45k a year right now.