Your Job Owes You More Than A Paycheck
When you need a job in a hurry, any job will do. You're not thinking about the long term when you're desperate to get hired. You just need to get some money, so you're not likely to be choosy when somebody makes you a job offer.
The more aware of your marketable skills you become, the less willing you will be to take just any job. You will start to have your own requirements for accepting a new position. The first time you turn down a job offer when you don't have another offer waiting, it will feel strange.
It might feel a little scary. You will be listening to your trusty instinct, which will tell you "Pass this job offer up -- you can do better!" And you will do better. Your gut knows best!
The longer you stay in the working world and the higher your flame grows, the less desperate you will feel. For most people, the process is not linear.
You don't go from having no marketable skills and no confidence to feeling as though you will never worry about finding a job again, and having unlimited confidence. The process is wavelike. You'll go up and down.
Sometimes your Mojo Fuel Tank will be full, and when your mojo level is high you'll trust in yourself more than you might do at other times.
If you ever accept the wrong job out of desperation and fear that the right job might not show up in time, you'll learn an important lesson. You'll learn how painful it can be to stay one more week and one more month in a job that sucks your precious mojo away.
You'll learn that as badly as we need money, having the wrong job can be much worse than another month of unemployment.
What is the wrong job? It's any job that only pays you some cash and gives you nothing else. The right job gives you much more than just a paycheck. You deserve much more than that!
You deserve to have a job where you can use your talents. You deserve a job where the people are fun and smart and friendly. You deserve to work for a manager who respects you and whom you can respect, too, for his or her wisdom and humanity.
You deserve a job where your flame can grow -- where your ideas can be heard and you can gain new experiences. You deserve all of that, and more!
If your current job gives you nothing more than a paycheck, you're getting robbed.
You can get another job that gives you more of the valuable things you want and deserve from a job, but you have to step out of your comfort zone to do it. You have to wage your job search differently than you've done in the past.
You can get a better job whether it's a job in the same career path you've been following so far, or a job in a totally different industry or function. Career change can sound very scary, but as you step into the process you'll see that it's not.
Hiring managers need help in every industry. Job ads don't tell the whole story. Job ads are intimidating. Anyone would feel unqualified if their spent their time reading job ads!
Job ads are full of nonsense. Employers ask for the moon, but hiring managers who can see your power and heft coming through in your Human-Voiced Resume and your Pain Letter won't care about the fact that you don't have all the goofy, extraneous and unnecessary Essential Requirements specified in the job ad.
You can get the job if you posssess thirty percent of the listed requirements. People do it every day. You only have to brand yourself for the jobs you want, reach out to hiring managers who might need your help, and stop completing online job applications.
Company career sites are not a viable job-search channel now, if they ever were one. There is a better way to get a job these days.
You can step into your power and get a job that celebrates your gifts -- a job that gives you so much more than just a paycheck!
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7 年It has been my passion to work for the environment, but unfortunately there has been no opportunity for me. I know how it feels when you do the job for money, makes you star questioning you life. but also don't know the better way also. I am still looking for that job, that's what makes me happy.
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8 年Please don't get me wrong on this issue raised in my initial comment. I have always subscribed to the mantra that the customer is always right. I place the highest premium on ensuring supreme customer satisfaction, all the way back to my days as a newspaper delivery boy on early Pittsburgh mornings from third grade through the completion of high-school. That noted, when a customer is repeatedly requesting changes to the way that the business supports the customer in terms of product, and asking for those changes to be implemented posthaste, then that becomes a little bit more of a situation where that customer is treating my business as simply blind hired help rather than as a respected and valued business partner. My hopes when I raised those concerns with the senior executive was that we could find a better way to provide the high level of customer support that was needed to continually implement on all the customer change requests while simultaneously not burning out the high-performing work group that delivered continuous winning results where the rubber meets the road in terms of the functional area's core performance deliverables. The concept of needing to find a healthier way was completely discarded or did not register.
Customer Focused???Systems Thinker???EQ???Servant & Clinical Leader???Quality Care???Registered Nurse???Medical Freedom???Process/Quality Improvement???Change Mgmt???Strategist???Teams???Skeptic???Perfectly Imperfect
8 年I once raised concerns directly with a senior executive when I worked as a leading contributor on a high performing team for a company with a workplace culture that made non-stop requirements of my team to provide unreasonable suspense dates on Project deliverables for recurring peripheral work that related to, but was not my team's core functional responsibilities. I advised the senior executive that the recurring work was quite disruptive to our ability to maximize our performance as the non-stop changes coming at us all the time was leading to burn out of the high performing team and that I thought we would do well to see if we can try to identify a better process to manage this incessant customer driven change. The senior executive replied to me, "If we want to keep these jobs we had better continue to do whatever it takes to make that customer happy." It was clear that there was no room for discussion despite unanimity from the middle managers of the impact of the situation. My reply was "How wonderful. We'll all kill ourselves and be dead trying to keep these great jobs." There was an awkward laugh and then we went back to work on the rush job of implementing on yet another customer driven change.