What do you wish you had known?

Colleagues,
 
These questions are primarily posed to individuals in their first five years of college/university choral leadership. 
 
First question:
 
What do you wish your advisor(s) in your graduate program had told you about being a successful college/university choral conductor?
 
Second question:
 
What did your advisor(s) in your graduate program try to teach you about being a successful college/university choral conductor that you wish you had taken more seriously?
 
Thanks for your replies.  I am hoping to use the responses (without identifying information) in a Repertoire & Standards article for Choral Journal. 
 
For my more experienced colleagues -- I will have questions for you later.  Please allow newer colleagues to take the lead on these.
 
Thanks.

Bill McConnell
National R&S Chair for College and University Choirs