Mark Cuban’s top career advice for young people: ‘Get paid to learn’ [Video]

Mark Cuban advises young people to approach their careers the same way that many professional athletes do: like they’re free agents.

The self-made billionaire entrepreneur and minority owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks recently took to social media platform BlueSky to share his top piece of career advice for young professionals, responding to a post about college graduates feeling “locked into” a specific career path for the rest of their lives.

“I tell every kid that asks, that you paid money to learn. Now it’s time to get paid to learn,” wrote Cuban, 65. “You need to be the best as you can at your job … But you are always a free agent. You can always be looking and learn more in a new job.”

Cuban followed that advice to build his own career. In his 20s, he landed a job at a computer software sales companydespite having only one computer science class under his belt — so he studied computer manuals to teach himself …