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Think about how you demonstrate to yourself and others about your work? Do you consider it only a way of earning a livelihood, or labor activity brings more pleasure? Indeed, for one person, work is a tool for self-realization and success, and for another, it is a way to gain financial independence.
The best job is the one you dream about
AT school years We treat work as an opportunity to do what we love. Ask a first grader what he wants to be when he grows up? And the child will tell you about his dream. And the dreams of children of this age are simple. Someone wants to become an astronaut, a firefighter or a doctor, and someone wants to become a famous football player, actor.
If you conduct a career guidance test for high school students, then the students will be divided into humanities and techies, units from the class are gifted with both abilities. And an oral survey will show that the guys prefer those specialties, the core subjects of which are easier for them. A rare humanist crams mathematics for admission to a technological university, and if this happens, then only at the insistence of his parents.
After graduation, many have to say goodbye to their dream. Some guys come again, but for a different specialty. This is usually due to disappointment at the first job or the inability to find a job in the profession. How often do we hear that a diploma is not useful? And how many have received education, found a job, but are dissatisfied with it? And looking forward to the end of the working day. An important role is played by the attitude of a person to work. And this is not only love for the profession as such, loyalty to one's work and idea, but also a reaction to failures, criticism of the authorities, the ability to take responsibility for one's work.
Are we changing jobs or attitudes towards it?
It so happens that the daily performance of even your favorite business is tiring and boring. When the vacation is still far away, and the forces are already running out, thoughts about changing jobs come more and more often. Change of place is not always the best choice. Before accepting this important decision, it is worth weighing all the pros and cons of the previous occupation. Perhaps it's time to change not the job, but your attitude towards it.
Ask yourself questions and write the answers on paper:
- Why do you work and what benefits do you want to achieve your professional activity?
- Do you enjoy work?
- Are you satisfied with the salary?
- What prevents you from feeling comfortable in the workplace?
- What is your relationship with your superiors and colleagues?
- Did what you dreamed of as a child come true?
Most likely, you will see little things in front of you that can be corrected by changing your attitude to work. And thoughts about changing professions and blues are symptoms of overwork, which will help get rid of good dream, full meals , walks on fresh air in the park. But if you don't feel like you can fulfill your potential, your job doesn't meet your needs, and you keep wondering "why am I still here?" This is a serious reason to change your life. Proper attitude to one's work, calmness, adequate response to stressful situations, prioritization "home - work" - such an installation will help to work successfully without unnecessary nerves and lead healthy lifestyle life.
Here will be discussed About, how to approach work. The following tips will help you worry less about failures at work, learn to stand up for your rights as an employee, not be afraid of your bosses, and find a balance between life and work.
I was prompted to write this article by the negative experience of many of my acquaintances who take work too seriously, are too emotionally involved in the events that take place in their office. And therefore, intrigues and incidents at work make them worry a lot, thinking about work even in their free time.
My past work experience also served as the basis for this article. Once I let the employer exploit me, stayed at work and saw it as a priority over my personal life. Now I no longer make that mistake. And I want to tell you about the rules that help me protect my personal life from work, stop worrying about mistakes, because of the attitude of my superiors, and consider work activities as serving my own, and not other people's interests.
This post is mainly about . But I think my advice can help workers of all kinds.
Rule 1 - Work for money, not for an idea
This is an obvious statement, don't you think? But, as often happens, people forget the most banal things. And this is facilitated, including, by your employer. It is more profitable for an employer that an employee works mainly for an idea, and only then for money. Why?
A person who understands that the meaning of his work is his salary is very difficult to exploit.
He will not stay a whole month after work, forgetting about family or personal life when he is not paid for it. He will not miss the opportunity to move to another job with more favorable conditions labor, because he works for money. He will not do a lot of work that is not related to his field of activity if he does not receive financial compensation for this.
He will appeal to the law that governs labor Relations in controversial situations, instead of silently agreeing with the most absurd demands of employers.
Therefore, many corporations seek to find employees with a desire to work "for the idea" and this desire is encouraged in every possible way in the process of work.
Despite the fact that modern corporations are products of capitalist societies, within themselves they also contain many features of socialist formations. A "cult of the leader" is being created, a regulation of corporate values. The purpose of the company and the collective good are elevated to the rank of the highest interest in the work of each employee. An ideological atmosphere is created, in the environment of which the employee works not for the benefit of his own prosperity, but for the benefit of the company, team, society!
They try to convince people that, despite the fact that they earn money by working in a company, they are here for something more than just mercantile interests. And in order to maintain such conviction in people, organizations resort to many various means: trainings, speeches by managers, propaganda, awarding, conferring regalia and titles (“employee of the year”), brand exploitation, imposing patriotism on a corporate scale, etc. etc.
How absurd the use of these tools goes depends on the particular company. In large Western corporations (Western - not in geographical terms, but in relation to the business building model: Japanese, Korean firms can also be attributed to this model, like many domestic organizations), corporate patriotism is cultivated more strongly than in all other firms.
Is it bad? Not always. On the one hand, there is nothing wrong with the fact that the company is looking for dedicated employees, that it is trying to create incentives for them to work, in addition to money, thereby increasing their interest in the work process.
On the other hand, patriotism, loyalty, corporate values can serve as justifications for the exploitation of personnel for unscrupulous employers. Many companies don't care about anything other than their profits. They do not care about your personal life and your personal interests, it is beneficial for them that you work as hard as possible and as much as possible. And the more you work and the less you ask, the more profitable your work is for the managers and shareholders of the firm, but the less it is beneficial for yourself.
Working “for an idea” also gives rise to a lot of unnecessary worries and frustrations. For a person who works for money, the worst case scenario at work would be his dismissal. He may be afraid that he will not be paid, or will not be paid on time, or he will not receive a bonus. If he made a mistake in his work, he would not lament about it, because he would not necessarily be fired for this?
A person working for an idea (or for the sake of satisfying his own ambitions) may be afraid that his efforts will not be paid attention to by his superiors, that his colleagues will not admire his professionalism. An employee “for the idea” treats his mistakes at work as a personal tragedy, as proof of his personal failure.
Employees for the idea come sick to work, stay in the office until late, work on weekends, even if they are not paid. For the sake of work, they are ready to neglect own health, his personal life and his family. Corporations look upon such behavior as a virtue, although, in my opinion, it is only a form of morbid obsession, subservience and dependence.
By working for money, you have less emotional attachment to work.
By doing this, you become connected to your work with fewer strings that the employer can pull in their interests, and not in yours. And the less you are attached to it, the less frustration you experience and the more space you have to think about something other than work. As a result, you begin to relate to failures more easily, you forget about work when you come home, reprimanding your superiors does not turn into a personal drama for you, and work intrigues pass you by.
So always remind yourself why you go to work. You are here to earn money, provide for your family. The worst thing that can happen here is that you get fired. For some, dismissal is a critical event, for some it is not, since a job can always be found. But, in any case, dismissal does not mean that you will be anathematized, made a traitor to the Motherland. It just means leaving your current job and looking for a new place and new opportunities.
Work is only a means to an end! This is not a goal for which you must sacrifice your family, your health and your happiness.
To work for money means not only to refuse to work primarily “for an idea”. It means not working to satisfy your passions and ambitions. If you work in order to command, to put pressure on people, to seem important to yourself, then you will perceive any failure at work as a challenge to self-esteem and, as a result, you will take failures to heart.
Please do not think that I want to force you to give up your love for what you love, replacing it with cold pragmatism. Love your job, but do not turn this love into a painful addiction! In everything you need to observe the measure.
And I found a job better than that where I worked before. The new place did not live up to my expectations and after a month I found an even better place. I still work there (note: I worked there at the time of this writing. I currently work for myself).
Maximum? Exactly. And who said that you should ask the employer for a salary corresponding to the average salary in the market? Why not get paid above average?
First, it is difficult to talk about average salary if you do not know what is happening in the labor market. (The only way for the average employee to find out about this is to go to interviews, as I wrote)
Secondly, the average salary is like average temperature by hospital. Why should you be guided by this figure at all?
Go to interviews, don't be afraid to ask for a higher salary than what you're currently being paid and see how they react potential employer. Different companies pay differently. Somewhere they will laugh at your requests, but somewhere they will make you an offer and will pay as much as you ask. Be prepared for anything, visit many different companies, see how things are going there.
Otherwise, you will think that it is impossible to earn more than 50 thousand in your position, working in Moscow. Usually people do not tell anyone about their salary, because "it's the way it is." But this unspoken rule sometimes works against us. We do not know how much our colleagues earn, how much our friends earn, because no one tells anyone such information.
As a result, it becomes more difficult for us to adequately assess the amount of our salary, and therefore we put up with what we are offered. But what if you found out that your office colleague, who works as long as you work, receives 80 thousand? Wouldn't your 50,000 still seem worthy compensation to you then?
(I have indeed come across such situations more than once when different employees of the same class were paid differently in the same company! Not because they had different experience, but because one asked for more, the second for less at the interview! You are unlikely to be offered more than you ask, even if they are ready for it.)
Personally, I try to tell my friends how much they pay me if they ask me, and I try to get similar information from them in order to understand what the situation is in the market now and what my position in this market is. Do I need to change something? Is there another possibility?
Of course, I don’t talk about my salary to just anyone, but this issue can be discussed with friends or close colleagues.
Rule 8 - Don't be afraid to lose your job
Your organization is most likely not unique. If you live in a large city, especially in Moscow, then there are many places where you can work even on the best conditions.
Search, learn, explore, develop. And do not be afraid that if you are fired from this company, your life will end. You may find something else. Don't be afraid to lose this place.
There is nothing wrong with this. Moreover, dismissal is not only grief, it is a chance. Chance to find something better!
Therefore, do not let your superiors blackmail you and intimidate you with dismissal. Moreover, not only you will have problems in connection with your dismissal, but the organization in which you work, since the company will have to look for a new employee and train him. So it is not known who else will have more problems.
At my first job, I did not cope well with the work due to the same inattention and excitement. They began to scare me with dismissal, so they probably wanted to.
I still didn't like working for this organization. So I said, "OK, I'll quit myself." I was not seven spans in my forehead, I was an ordinary, slow, green university graduate. But even such a person the company tried to keep! As soon as I said that I would quit myself, they began to dissuade me from this decision.
It was not profitable for the company to look for another person, despite the fact that I had only been working for a few months and did not know much yet. Perhaps they thought that I was not doing well because of my inexperience and that I needed time to gather my strength and do a quality job. In this they were not mistaken, time passed and I eliminated my shortcomings. Now I'm doing pretty well with both my main job and my second job (this site).
But I still left this company and got a job for more money and better conditions.
Conclusion: the dismissal is not only a loss for you, but also for the company. No one will fire you without the most compelling reasons to do so.
If you want to quit own will, but you are afraid that you will let someone down, betray, then discard these stupid doubts! It is not necessary to perceive the company as a ship in which each employee moves towards a common goal along with other employees. Do not think that if you leave this ship, you betray the general idea.
In fact, the purpose of the company is solely the purpose of the owners of this company and shareholders. In order to achieve their goal on their "ship", they hire rowers who are paid for their work. If you want to transfer to another ship where you are paid more, why not do it? Would you betray your fellow rowers? No, because they will still be paid no matter where the ship ends up (unless it gets caught in a storm). It may be harder for them to row after you leave, but the captain will find a replacement for you. Especially for each of your colleagues, just as you have the choice to leave the ship.
Your goal and the goal of your colleagues on this ship is to row and earn money for yourself and your family.
The captain's goal is some distant island. But, having reached this island, will the captain share its treasures with you? No, he only pays you to row!
Therefore, you do not need to identify your goal with the goal of the corporation. You should not identify your colleagues to whom you have become attached with the heads of the organization. There is a captain, and the rowers are hired workers.
This understanding will help you become less attached to your office and, as a result, worry less about work. After all, there are always other possibilities! And at your current place of work, the light does not come down like a wedge.
Rule 9 - Know the Labor Law
Did you know that weekend work is paid double? Do you know that if they want to fire you, then you are required to pay several salaries (Unless, of course, you are fired under the article)?
Now you know. Study the law, do not let unscrupulous employers exploit your ignorance of the law. The company is required by law to pay overtime. You have the right to have your work paid in full.
Of course, domestic organizations often circumvent the law. For example, this happens in firms with a "gray" part of the salary. In such organizations, an employee has fewer rights: he can be fired just like that, he may not be paid, or his salary may be reduced without warning. This does not mean that I do not recommend working in such firms. But still, I consider the absence of a “gray” salary to be an essential criterion for choosing a job. If the company works "in the white" - this is a big plus.
I am writing about this because many do not think about it and consider tax avoidance to be the most natural thing! When I went to interviews, I asked the question: “Do you have a white salary?”
They looked at me in surprise and answered: “White ?? Of course not! So what?"
And the fact that I, as an employee, is at great risk when I work in such an organization. Most often, everything can be dispensed with and if the organization is normal, you will be paid. But you are not immune from anything. If the company has problems, if it faces the need to reduce employees, you can simply be easily released on all four sides (or simply reduce your salary by half) with virtually no compensation.
Remember, breaking the law and denying you your legal rights is not the norm!
Knowing the law will help you stand up for your rights and make your job easier. After all, you have rights, which means there are guarantees, which means there are fewer reasons for concern.
Rule 10 - Home is separate from work
After work, put all thoughts of her out of your head. Think of something else. Leave all your worries about an unfulfilled plan, a report not sent at your workplace. Work is not the most important thing in life. For many of us, it's just a way to make money. All the endless working intrigues, conflicts, unfulfilled obligations are all nonsense, trifles.
Many of us do not decide people's destinies at work, but are just links in huge organism working in the interests of the shareholders and owners of the corporation. Is your role in this system really that important to you?
All the activities of the corporation are the employment of some people, the dividends of other people, and access to certain benefits of third people. All corporations together form the market, which has the function of distributing goods and services in society.
It is undeniably useful and helps to organize social relations. Such a system is not an absolute evil. But is it worth deifying this car? To deify the role of the cog in it? Relax! Take this role easy! Didn't get the job done? It's OK. Get it out of your head if the work day is already over. Think about it tomorrow, as the heroine of a famous novel used to say.
Stop obsessing over your work. There are many things in life that need your attention and participation. Work is not your whole life.
Some people are proud that they give themselves so selflessly to work, they are ready to give up everything in order to please the authorities, to help the development of the company. They see it as nobility, loyalty and a certain kind of heroism. I don’t see anything in this other than escaping from my problems, dependence (workaholism), selfishness, weakness, servility to authorities, narrow-mindedness, lack of interests and hobbies.
Your family needs you more than your boss. Your health is more important than any money. Life was not created to be a hero at work for 12 hours every day until retirement. If you devote your whole life only to work, then what will you achieve in the end? Of money? Confessions?
Why do you need all this if you have wasted years of your life in vain? This will make you a hero in the eyes of your boss, but is that all you want?
The endless pursuit of money, recognition, fulfillment of the plan, authority and prestige - this is the pursuit of emptiness! There will be nothing at the end, even though it may seem to you now that this is the highest goal!
Work is only a means. A tool to realize your life goals. Work should be subordinated to these goals, and not vice versa. If you treat work as a means, you will be much less frustrated by failure. Your head will become much less stuffed with work matters. You will be able to think of something else besides work. And understand what you really want, what is the true purpose of your life ...
Conclusion – no need to demonstrate knowledge of these rules at work
As I already wrote, I used to be very worried about work and worried a lot about the result. I was ready to stay late, ignoring my wife's desire to be with me at least in the evening. I did it because I thought that “this is how it should be”, that this is the most important thing, that work is “everything”.
But then my attitude to life in general and to work in particular began to change (I wrote about this in an article). I realized that there are many things in life more important than work and work should be subordinated to my life, and not vice versa.
Some people are so arranged that when they suddenly understand something important, come to some new conviction, they give themselves to this conviction with all the passion of a new discovery! Only after some time do they manage to find a balance between their discoveries and the demands of the outside world.
Therefore, when I got tired of worrying about failures, when I realized that work is not the main thing, I began to treat it with demonstrative indifference. When colleagues again began to accuse me of being wrong, and because of me some client would not receive their goods today, I, instead of clutching my head, blaming myself and apologizing (as I did before), calmly said, “so what? What is it? and turned to the monitor.
From extreme to extreme. This of course was not entirely correct on my part. But what was, was. My new reaction was also understandable.
You should not take an example from me in this case and sharply revise your line of behavior at work. Take the work easier, but do not show obvious indifference. If you make a mistake, calmly draw conclusions, try not to make mistakes in the future and openly admit your mistakes. Just don't worry about it, that's all.
If you used to stay late at work all the time, let someone else’s work be blamed on you, and suddenly you got tired of it, then you don’t have to leave right away. workplace, as soon as it hit 18-00, without doing your job (of course you can do this if you don’t value this place at all). People do not expect this from you and expect that the work will be done. Therefore, everyone should be prepared for the fact that you will no longer sit up late and do someone else's work. Warn people about this so they are ready. Warn new employers right at the interview that you will not agree to free overtime.
I'm not trying to educate you some kind of nihilists, I just want you to take your work easier, have other interests in life besides it, do not allow corporations to exploit their own labor!
I also don't try to raise bad workers. If you do not treat work with fanaticism, this does not mean that you will become a negligent employee. On the contrary, you will perform many tasks better if you do not worry too much about possible failure.
Influence human emotions effective decision making can be tracked in poker. This is a game that I love very much for its versatility. Winning it depends not only on luck, but also on the ability to play.
I think any poker professional will confirm the following thesis. If a player is very worried about the result, worried about the mistakes made, he will start to play even worse, make the wrong decisions and make even more mistakes.
Calmness, control of emotions, calm attitude to losses - the key to success in poker. If a player is strongly emotionally involved in the game, if his goal is to teach other players a lesson, to prove something to someone, to be the very first, and if he is mortally afraid of defeat, he will most likely endure it.
Therefore, approach work the same way a good player approaches the game: calmly and with a cool head. Do not make work a field for the realization of your ambitions and the resolution of your complexes. Your life and dignity are not at stake. Work is not the most important thing in life. Relax!
As a last word of advice, I would advise you not to demonstrate knowledge of these rules in the interview. The employer expects from you that you will work for the idea of the prosperity of the company or for the idea of personal professional development, but not for money! Because it is difficult to exploit a worker for money!
If this is expected of you, then play by the rules of the employer and show with your appearance and answers that professional development, the opportunity to work in such a great company is more important for you than money.
I wrote about this in an article.
I hope these tips are helpful to you. Some of them are more suitable for young people living in big cities where there is a wide choice of work. But, I am sure that the advice to take it easier on work is suitable for any employees, of any age and profession!
Growing a business is like raising a child. You raise it, care for it, give it all your time. If you need to go away for a while, ask a friend you trust to look after the child. A friend will make sure that the child does not hurt his forehead, but it is naive to expect that he will replace you in everything, will read books or play educational games. The same is true in business. Employees or even junior partners have a different attitude towards work than the owner of the company. And that's okay.
You can require subordinates to work with the same enthusiasm as you, while the company is small. When the business starts to grow, you will have to restructure.
Either you monitor and control everyone so that everyone works as much as you work (that is, 24 hours a day), or you still overpower yourself and resign yourself to the fact that people, although they do less than you, still are doing something.
At this point, you will realize that in order to expand the business, you will have to hire 20 people who will do the same amount of work as five people like you. But this is the only way out. Just because you can't find five like you. If you manage to find at least one, you are unlikely to hire him. Most likely, he also builds his own business.
Not all managers can accept that any employee is a person with their own interests and values. In especially neglected cases, the manager turns into a micromanager and begins to make sure not only that programmers write code without bugs, but also that cleaners carefully wipe the dust. Caught under such pressure, people quickly “break down” and leave. The worst remain - those who do not work, but simply pull the strap.
Money - the obvious way make people work harder and better. But there are nuances.
I believe that all people are naturally lazy. But to varying degrees. Sometimes laziness is not interrupted by any money. A man bought himself a cheap car, an apartment in Khrushchev - and he doesn’t need anything else. He has no incentive to earn more.
We need to look for those who are not devoid of a healthy need for a constant improvement in the standard of living. It is enough for such an employee to set clear goals and offer adequate rewards for achieving them. These are the people I try to hire. It is from such employees that good leaders are obtained.
In addition to money, staff can be motivated by the tasks that the company sets for itself. They say there are people who don't care how they make money, but I don't understand that.
There was a period of complete poverty in my life. When I started building a business, there was no money left for myself - I paid only to employees. But even if then I was offered, for example, to go to the market to trade for a lot of money, I would not go - I was interested in programming.
Over time, I developed for myself several criteria that an intelligent employee must meet.
Appropriate attitude towards management
Normal employees always have a little conflict with you. If an employee always looks into your mouth, sincerely believes or pretends that “the boss is always right”, it is better to part with him as soon as possible. Because business does not need faithful servants, but normal professionals who can argue with you in order to defend the best solution for the company.
Love for your work
Again, this is not about love for the authorities or for the company. A good employee likes his professional duties, the tasks that he solves. I came out of the ordinary programmers and I remember that I usually worked more than eight hours a day. If at 17:30 I found some kind of thread to the bug, I sat on the task for another two or three hours, while the suit was going on. To work like this, you need to truly love what you do.
Understanding the difference between "to be" and "to seem"
You can sit in the office for ten hours and spit at the ceiling. It will be just an imitation, a public demonstration of their "over-employment". Another thing is if a person stays overtime for the benefit of business, really gives all the best in order to get a result.
Situation control
Managers should have this quality. A good boss can be called at any time to find out what's going on in his department. If he can describe the situation with a delay of a day, that's fine. If he has a desire to find out what subordinates are doing, only after the question of management, then there are problems.
I do not claim that I have been able to describe ideal employee. There are probably other important qualities, but these are the most important. The ability to be like the owner of the company, to work in the same way and as much as he does, is definitely not among them. Simply because there are no such people in nature.
Each person must understand that work is, first of all, a way to achieve certain benefits. It is not man who serves work, but work which serves the good of man. Everyone knows the saying “labor made a man out of a monkey”, but resourceful people came up with a sequel: “and it is labor that will destroy us.” So, so that labor does not “destroy” a person, each of us should have right attitude to him.
Work is good and bad. Good job , this is the work that gives you pleasure, corresponds to your individual qualities and abilities, is able to benefit not only you (we are talking about this case about material welfare), but also to your employer. Bad job , for you personally, does not meet these three criteria.
Attitude to work, too, can be correct when you understand that work is a way to achieve the set results and goals, and wrong when work is not a way to achieve the goal, but is presented as the goal of your entire existence.
It should be noted that the ratio of work and attitude to work is of four types:
- Bad job and wrong attitude
- Good Job and Wrong Attitude
- Bad job and right attitude
- Good job and right attitude
Consider each of the four types and what each situation can lead to.
Bad job and wrong attitude. This is the most critical situation. From this type of ratio, you can not get pleasure for your work, nor achieve your goal.
Good job and wrong attitude. With such a ratio, certain results can be achieved, but the achievement of the highest goal is unlikely to be realized.
Bad job and right attitude. You can achieve some goals, but at the same time spend a lot of your strength and energy. This ratio can lead to a large number failures and to your moral exhaustion.
Good job and the right attitude. The most optimal ratio. Only with such a position it is possible to achieve the highest results and in the shortest possible time.
These four types of work relationships and attitudes are a very simple way to test yourself and understand which type you belong to. If you are not satisfied with what is on this moment You can always change your life for the better. Do not forget that, first of all, work should bring pleasure, and the fact that you will temporarily receive a penny for the work done, well, "Moscow was not built right away."
Man controls his own destiny. We must not forget that we ourselves make ourselves the way others see us. And if you want to achieve certain results in your kind of activity, then first of all start with work on yourself, and most importantly, work on your attitude to work. How you treat your work, you will achieve such results.
