Career Advice Talk

Do You Get it?

1st September, 2007 - Posted by Robin Ogden -

Okay, I didn’t for a long time.  I poured all my energy into my work.  Had a lot of fun, but never really had a plan, just worked really hard and made plenty of sacrifices that affected other parts of my life.  Like the time I missed the funeral of a dear friend’s mom because “I’ve got to be at a meeting in
Denver”.  Or, “you go out with the kids to dinner, I’m too tired”, having just come in from an overseas trip.  Or how about the alliance I had with my boss, and following his lead in talking smack about the upper management.  It was fun, edgy, but bit me in the butt in the end.  I was successful, made tons of money, had a great bunch of friends at work.  But I never played the game correctly.  Now, many will say that ‘playing the game’ is a bunch of hoo-hah politics.  And “I don’t like politics”.  But I now ‘GET IT”.   Playing the game is about living your life.  It’s about making your life work in the way you want it to work.  Every action you take in your job/career has implications not only for the advancement of that career but in the advancement/quality of your entire life.  So get with it!  Realize that most of us will spend 90,000 at work in our lifetime.  Why not make those 90,000 hours work for you?  Our work at firedUP careers is all about digging what you do.  Individually, we’ve been in business for along time.  We’ve just launched a our NEW BUSINESS  to help people ‘get it’.  The time is right to say to yourself…”life’s too short.  I want to dig what I do.”

Posted by Chris Fogarty - FiredUP Careers

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