Way too old.
In my late 30s, still doing it. I don’t expect to be rewarded though, I just want to toil away without being a dick to people around me.
Thank you
30s. Earning well, no issues yet.
Being good to the people around me and those in my community isn’t an act. It’s just how I feel I should be.
I now work on projects I’m passionate about, and spend years prior swinging a tool.
Everyone’s path is different. I was lucky, but I didn’t act a certain way because I was trying to put up an act. It’s just how I conduct myself.
Lucky af here too. None of the “work sucks” stuff ever realllly resonates with me. But I sympathize all the same. Just happened to get super lucky in most every way. We need to do better for the majority, but even an evil system ends up working well for some folks (perhaps only a privileged few). So, caution people on blanket “absolutely everything sucks, trust no one!” kinda thinking.
At 15, on my first job. There were 3 others in the same position. I finished first, perfectly, while they goofed off. Told the manager, all excited. She had me clean out a closet while I waited for the others to catch up. It was a real defining moment.
The best thing is that this is true in every job. Your reward for being 15% more productive than everyone else is an extra 5% in wages. Sometimes not even that.
Your reward for being 15% more productive than everyone else is 25% extra work
Fixed.
Also this.
This is only true in the kind of jobs where you’re just a pair of hands.
In most jobs the more “productive” you are, the more you learn, and the quicker you progress to the next level.
While you’re making money for your boss you can be learning how to make money for yourself.
On second thought, perhaps what you said is true, but that 15% premium compounds over the years.
It’s really, really going to depend on your work environment. In some cases, being the person who is 15% more productive buys you some leverage and slack that others don’t have. Was that guy in some roles - there was definitely shit I was able to get away with that would’ve ended in disciplinary conversations for others.
The trick, though, is being to suss out when that’s actually the case, when you’re just deluding yourself , and when that might’ve been the case once but for whatever reason isn’t anymore. That’s tougher.
Yeah, in my environment I find that people tend to remember who they can trust with a task and who’s going to fuck it up. And that’s often the basis for networking.
Sadly, not until the late nineties.
My god, how old are you?!
Well, I once picked up the dropped jock strap of a dude hanging on a cross. Joshua, or something like that.
Or, I’m so old that when I fart, mummy dust comes out.
Or, I’m so old I banged your mom and her mom both.
Take your pick :)
Don’t be an ass.
When I had to have a tiny mental breakdown over getting a single day off after spending the year prior doing favours for the store manager like driving the delivery truck and being the pillar that kept the fresh departments standing. Ohh and I hadn’t had a holiday for 2 years.
Now I work 4 days a week by choice, I come in do my work well enough then sign off. I constantly remind them that if I’m not being actively paid by the company I see myself as unemployed and free to do what I want.
In my late 30s I realized I could work a little less hard, ask for support, and ask for what I wanted without expectations. It’s an improvement so far.
In my early 30s and after the constant flow of assholes fail upwards and get promoted ahead of me, I decided to set fire to the world and did a Office Space.
That constant directness led me to run a department.
Thankfully, around 7-8th grade. The English and History teachers worked in tandem to impose a critical thinking background to their lessons. Of course, it made me and others cynical as shit, but we were at least less surprised when life decided to go in dry.
I miss MadTV… Great refetence.
Trust me, if you’re thrust in unprepared and need to learn the lessons for yourself you will turn out more cynical in the long run.
I used to be so Idealistic…
Can I just respond to this with the entire lyrics for The Logical Song by Supertramp?
23 - no one liked me…
Have you considered being likable
Did you still act like you were in freshman year?
Still haven’t figured it out yet
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Way too damn old.
I was pretty young when I knew this in my brain.
I was way too old before I really believed and felt it in my soul.
Don’t be a doormat, but be nice and take a little time to be a bro at work. I’ve been given many great opportunities because I tried to be nice. As long as you’re competent and you care, you don’t even need to be competitive.
33 - After burning out from taking too much on 😅
