06.24.08

Underemployed, or Do employees dream of contracting?

Posted in Empowerment, Insights, Life Management, Mental Refinery, Publish Often, Stuck in the Old World, Using Experience, Work Adaptations at 1214353241 by Sean Canton

You spend the first six months at a job learning your place, testing your limits and generally meeting what is expected from you. After that, the work-expectation set point has been established, and you have nothing to anticipate besides advancement, quitting or getting fired in a blazing row. There is no challenge, and you go to work not watching the clock, but looking for ways to pass the time. Read the rest of this entry »

06.06.08

Momentum : Why the first 6 months at a job are the most important.

Posted in Empowerment, Insights, Mental Refinery, Sane Management, Stuck in the Old World, Work Adaptations, business as usual at 1212776466 by Sean Canton

Momentum is a critical part of living and feeling vital, to always know that new opportunities are emerging and that one’s abilities are being utilized to their utmost. To make the most out of now, so that in the future, more will be available. To never be stagnant, stuck or otherwise without options. Most employees are lucky to make it 6 months without momentum being killed, not by an inner sense of torpor, but from not being placed in a situation where one’s potential can be realized through daily situational challenges. Read the rest of this entry »