Please don’t dig where you stand just cause someone tells you to

One place I worked at had some guideline or ethos that “you dig where you stand”, I guess about seizing the opportunities within your reach; it makes absolutely no sense at all: what if you’re on top of a septic tank or a power line, or are in the middle of the mine field? You’d be in for a big surprise… What about moving to some place where there may be gold or diamonds and dig there instead?

Thus my recommendation is to dig where there’s treasure or you’ll end up with at best nothing.