Honestly, the Get Bored advice is huge. I’ve found myself occasionally in between things just giving myself like 2-5 minutes to sit with the moment and let my mind rest and it helps a lot with the day feeling like it’s going too fast.
There's an important lesson you have to learn at a certain point in your career: how and when to say no.
In your early years, it makes sense to be the guy who scoops up the side quests. It's basically the best way to learn new skills and figure out what interests you.
When you reach a certain level of seniority, you'll need to be much more selective about what you take on. You should be focusing on the highest value work that your skills allow.
So what do you do when these requests come up? Ideally you delegate them to a junior team member, but you can also just say no. Obviously you should be professional about this, but it's perfectly reasonable to say that what you're doing is higher priority and you can't be distracted from it. If it's important, they'll ask someone else, and if it turns out you really are the only person who can do it, then you can pick it up when you, the expert, think it's appropriate.
And since this advice only works for specific people, in specific elevated positions, who oversee someone else/another team, or who is actually invaluable, the original comment of "get fired" still applies to 99% of the planet.
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otacon239@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 19d
Honestly, the Get Bored advice is huge. I’ve found myself occasionally in between things just giving myself like 2-5 minutes to sit with the moment and let my mind rest and it helps a lot with the day feeling like it’s going too fast.
FireWire400@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 19d
Just fixed the last panel for you
disorderly@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 19d
There's an important lesson you have to learn at a certain point in your career: how and when to say no.
In your early years, it makes sense to be the guy who scoops up the side quests. It's basically the best way to learn new skills and figure out what interests you.
When you reach a certain level of seniority, you'll need to be much more selective about what you take on. You should be focusing on the highest value work that your skills allow.
So what do you do when these requests come up? Ideally you delegate them to a junior team member, but you can also just say no. Obviously you should be professional about this, but it's perfectly reasonable to say that what you're doing is higher priority and you can't be distracted from it. If it's important, they'll ask someone else, and if it turns out you really are the only person who can do it, then you can pick it up when you, the expert, think it's appropriate.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 19d
And since this advice only works for specific people, in specific elevated positions, who oversee someone else/another team, or who is actually invaluable, the original comment of "get fired" still applies to 99% of the planet.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d
People in lower positions also need to assert boundaries in the workplace.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 19d
Trust your gut kinda base. A lot of guts telling people vaccines cause cancer etc. these days. Learn what good data is and seek it whenever possible.
egerlach@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 19d
Can anyone make out that signature and find the creator? It looks like "sillygautomireddy" to me, but searching that doesn't come up with anything.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 19d
@sillygautamireddy on instagram
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 19d
two of them are pretty hard to do