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The easiest way to love your job is not to do it
I’ve really enjoyed the past two weeks holiday and spending time with family. Chris and Kate left this afternoon and Mum and Andy are off on Wednesday. Unfortunately holidays don’t last forever — I return to work tomorrow. I’ve just read an good article in the Guardian on Tips for surviving life in the workplace. It’s an amusing article, but describes many unfortunate truths and realities of work. Here’s one of my favourites:
Get yourself noticed
Getting ahead in business means getting noticed, but working hard makes you almost invisible. Therefore it’s a lot better to work hard at getting yourself noticed. What senior management likes more than anything else is junior managers who show signs of initiative and volunteer to do things. Most of the reason for this is that the more junior managers volunteer to do, the less senior managers will have to do themselves. Of course, volunteering for things and doing things are two different matters. Once you have got the credit for volunteering for a project, it’s best to get as far away as possible from the project before the work kicks in. The best way to do that is to volunteer for another project.
Posted by Eliot at 2:44 PM on Sunday, 7th January 2007