AOL recently caught up with Lexy Funk, the woman that launched Brooklyn Industries when she was only 26 years old. From selling handbags and vinyl that she found in dumpsters to being the CEO of a business that has 16 stores across the country.

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Here Funk tell AOL the best piece of career advice she has to offer:

What’s your best piece of career advice?

I think somebody’s career is sort of like a piece of software. You have to know when to go to version two. I think if you fall in love with a job you need to stay and you need to pursue that, but I think people become too staid. I think they should become more idiosyncratic, and they should be learning in all kinds of different jobs.

Especially early on, they should try different disciplines; I think they should try to work in different areas so that you kind of get a vast understanding of what it is that you want to be doing, and also you can learn from those different experiences. And then the last thing I would say is that, if you’re able to, either through work or for pleasure, the more that you travel and the more that you kind of see the world, the better an employee you become.

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That being said, my sister has only worked in two companies in her entire life, and she grew really rapidly in the first one. And I’ve worked for myself for the last 18 years, so I haven’t exactly followed that piece of advice. But I do think, sometimes people come and if they’ve sort of been stuck somewhere and they’re disheartened, you always think, “Well, why didn’t you move, why didn’t you try something else?” I think people who are really agile thinkers are very useful for companies, and I think you become an agile thinker when you’re constantly pursuing things.

I think the other thing I would say for career advice is to stay hungry and to keep learning. I think to keep learning is very important. It’s great when somebody knows something new or when they’re very curious. And when you can do that within your career, that’s probably the best advice I can give.

Read fulle interview HERE

Amazing adivice from Lexy Funk.

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