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. (more…)
24 June, 2008
23 May, 2008
How to use Piles Effectively
Piles of stuff are a paradox. What appears to the uninitiated as a disorderly mess, to the creator of said pile, is the quickest way to file, categorize and find items, using the intuitive and associative powers of the mind. How can a thing be both an organizational solution and a problem?
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21 May, 2008
Self Replication, the objective for life and work.
With any situation, you can respond with fear or creativity. At work, you can use every opportunity to self-promote in an attempt to protect your job, or you can utilize the resources available to your position to learn and prosper. This article deals with the latter, in a hypothetical scenario.
Lets say, you have a given skill set, that you have worked at for some years, while you have certainly not reached a level of mastery, you are more than competent and able to teach others what you know. Instead of forcing you through the constant rote-regurgitation of your experience, your work has graciously lent you an assistant who is less skilled in the area of your expertise to help with your workload. (more…)
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