How To Lose Your Job & Save Your Career
How To Lose Your Job Professionally
Usually you try to maintain yourself into a company by taking higher roles as you move up into the organizational hierarchy, you feel elevated and complimented once your direct manager tells you: Good job!.
Not only that, the below expressions are designed to make you feel exceptional, and they are very well used by higher management officials for that particular sake:
- We could not have done it without you!
- You are an asset for us!
- Keep it going!
- The company’s profit increased by 40% and you are part of it!
- You will receive a salary of bonus compensation thanks to your dedication
Definitely words have power, and the above expressions could impose optimistic views and ideas in a person hence helping in yielding out a better outcome. However, are those expressions really up to your work? Are they enough to thank you and appreciate the efforts you have allocated for a particular business in a company? Keep in mind that you usually spend two thirds of your time in a business which is not yours and will not eventually provide you more than the agreed payroll in your contract. In other words, your successes are lifting others while you are sinking in your payroll “safety zone”.
JJack Ma Quotes about business. “If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, monkeys will choose bananas because monkeys do not know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer a job and business to people, they would choose job because most people do not know that business can bring more money than wages. Profit is better than wages, for wages can make you a living but profits can bring you a fortune.”
It is important to clarify that there is nothing wrong in acquiring a job, in fact acquiring a job at the very beginning of your career life is crucial to start specially if you are in no position financially to invest, however it is important to set goals in this job and to have a date in which you will leave it and eventually become financially independent. You will be implementing part of what I nominate as the Job-Dependency Cycle. This cycle which starts with you joining a firm till the point you become an owner of another and then somebody else starts working in your business at the same exact point you tarted one day.
Some people might understand this cycle as kind of a rebellion against a principle (Work to live). However the cycle emphasizes on a better usage of your skills for both your society and your future. You will never quit working or become that boss sitting in a chair giving orders, you will be rather focusing your strength for something purely yours and something you know if it goes up it will lift you and the opposite is completely true.
Personally I was part of a completely new department in my firm, I launched it, I set the goals and internal processes, I spent days and nights struggling to come up with solutions and new opportunities, I dedicated almost 16 hours daily to develop business plans and ways to increment profit, I was so excited in the process that I never felt exhausted. Although my work had a notorious like from higher management and I am very respected on the firm, I still felt something was missing, the truth is that after all what I have done, I realized that dedicating 60% of the time I spent on this new department in a personal business could have at least created a steady source of income for me. Despite all the efforts invested on such a department, my position was still the same, my income changed slightly (mainly due to peanuts commissions from your sales), and then? you are still a your same position and as if nothing changed at all.
As a business owner you must take into consideration a risk plan and back up stages for dark days, remember in this point you do not have a team ready to back you up and cover your mistakes. At this points you should have learned diplomacy and alliances, never be tough toward competitors or other business sectors, nobody knows how circumstances could play in the market.
Again, rebellion is not a good approach to start up a business. If you are taking the risk of starting your own model, don’t attempt it just to show off or just to be financially independent, moreover take into consideration the below checklist to narrow out your possibilities and get the right ingredients for success:
Our parents always thought us to be good workers, they never mentioned to be good employees. It is important to emphasize the difference between those two terms; a worker is somebody who gets an outcome for himself, however an employee is somebody go gets an outcome for somebody else.
Social pressure has embedded the idea of being a good employees on us, we were raised to be good to our managers and not be good managers. We must pass a leading mindset to our further generations rather than teaching them how to be followers.
A wise man once taught me: “The only constant things in life are changes”. Today I am writing an article worried about my next steps in my company. Tomorrow is still bright and with many surprises to come. Live this present which was in the past the unknown future. Moreover let this present be a good past in your future.
