So, earlier I talked about what do you want and also for you to think about what are you bad at. Now, it is time to put those things down and for you to narrow down what do you actually want! Yay, getting somewhere! But don't get ahead of yourself. We must know what are we want to get ourselves into before looking into getting what we want. We need to be sure that we will not be doing things that we don't like in order to be happy doing what we are asked to do. To make it simple, lets look at a list of things we usually don't like to do.
So, basically we will need something that is higher up in the work food chain. We don;t want to be doing the entry level boring stuff. At my level, I can choose not to but for someone starting out, you got to prove yourself first. Speaking of being in the higher levels, we actually have to do more of the things that we don't like in order to do what we would like. It's a trade off. Simply put, we need to do it because we have the necessary skills and we reached these levels because we passed through doing the things that we didn't like in the first place. And we did them well. Next after knowing what we don't want to do, we have to think what can we actually live with? So please look through your list and choose, what can you live with and why? Why can you take it? With that, you will now have a list of things you will never do, things you may do, and things you don;t mind doing. Stay tuned for the next post where we will start looking at what we want to do! I read an interesting article here on build a career worth having. The writer made some good points about our careers and what we should be doing. I totally agree and have always felt that once you have reached a comfortable earnings, you will not focus so much on money but on achievements. Another thing is everyone should look to do their best and not just to draw a paycheck. I strongly recommend you to have a read! Often I have seen many who are not focused on their job. And when it comes to those who are supposed to lead, it causes much catastrophe to the entire company when they lose focus. Earlier on I wrote about how your boss contributes 101% to your work and also on how that can make you perform really well, or not at all. Whenever we work, we all need to focus on the task at hand and also on the bigger picture. Whenever we need to make a decision, we must always remember what is the greater impact of our decisions. It is not just about ourselves and we must always think of doing what is good for the company and also the people who report to us. The learning I want to share today is to keep focused on the objective, the impact of it and the tasks required to reach the objective. It is not just about getting things done but getting things done in order to achieve the goal. As I sit and write this, it echos in my head "What do you want to do?". And I find that this is a common question I come across when talking to friends about career choices. It's not that I am an expert in this, but for myself, it does help to write it out in order to get some clarity in my head. I too am always thinking what do I want to do? What do i want to achieve? But it's more than just that. It's more than what do you want to do, what are you good at, what do you have passion for... It's also about what do you not want to do, what you dislike, what can you live with and what compromises are you willing to take. What are you going to handle? I know for many its all about how much am I going to get paid and that no matter what, you can take it for the money. Kinda sounds like some profession? Not knowing what you are getting until u get in? So while I think more and write more on this over the next few days, think of this first. "What am I not good at?" Sounds simple? It's harder than it looks. Knowing what you are not good at will help you choose what do you want to do, and ultimately knowing what you are good at. So as part of my sharing on what i learnt from startup training is to simplify things. Many times in our life, we tend to think a lot of what we want to do, analyze the situation, what others will think and so on. This makes everything complicated. More importantly it makes us second guess ourselves. Even when it comes to our ideas, what we want to do, what do we want to achieve, we usually will think all sort of things and add more and more layers in order to cover what we think or what some other people think will be the shortfalls of the system. This complicates things. Keep it simple. Strip it down to the core And if its something you cant explain in 5 minutes, its too complex. Strip the idea down to the core, understand what is it that you want to do, why is it special an Well, I like Johnny Depp. I think he is a great actor, the roles he plays, the way he portrays characters... I just think he is great. Anyway, my point today is to relax at work and don't be too serious. Try to relax and enjoy yourself at work. :) I know of a few people who think that I try to be funny while at work... and yes, I do try to be funny. In my experiences, being serious causes everyone else to be serious, making people stressed out and makes others question their actions. As we should know, our moods are contagious. Whatever mood you are in will affect those around you and so when you are trying to save the world from imminent doom, its time to be serious and focus on that. But when you are not, try to cheer up and relax. What you feel will make your colleagues feel the same way too! I remember studying in sociology class years ago, the dominant person (usually me) will influence the people around them. And others will absorb the energy and mood that is emanating from that person. We all will influence and be influenced by those around us and thus cause a change to the social dynamics. So, when the world is not ending and no imminent doom in sight, try to relax and get others around you to relax as well. It makes everyone work better as we will not be scared of making a mistake. We will not be wasting time re-reading an email 10x just to be careful. We will not be checking everything over and over again just to be safe. Just smile, say Hi, make a joke or something. Lighten the mood and I noticed that work gets done faster that way. :) I just want to share with you guys today on Prezi.com. I have looked at it and tried to learn how to make one but am not really good at it. What Prezi does is to help animate presentations, making it much more interesting and more importantly, engaging to your audience. Instead of boring Powerpoint animations, Prezi allows you to zoom in, scroll, fly around your presentations and it just looks cool! So why am I talking about this company? Well, I find that what it does is great and useful no matter what you do. Whatever company or job you are in, this will be able to spice up your presentations and especially for keynote presentation or canned presentations, this works great! For all you HR, Corp Comm guys, do check it out and use it for the boring employee on-boarding presentations or product launch pitches... Prezi it to be more interesting! Go check it out at ww_w.prezi.com to find out more. It's interesting and fun to make :) I am a tech guy, though I specialize in hardware and systems. I do notice something common these days which is the newer people who join into the work force lack basic technical skills.I am not talking about skills in specific hardware or software or even programming, but basic skills such as setting up your computer, getting it connected, trouble shooting connections are pretty bad. What's going on? I think it has to do with the fact that everyone is trying to make life easier. Lets just take basic networking as an example. In the past, we had to know how to load drivers for the network card, how to cable it up in a token ring as not to lose connections down the line, how to setup our IP addresses, subnet masks, DNS etc. These days, just plug it in and let DHCP take care of it for you. I find it amusing when people have no idea what is a DNS, why is it important and why if you change it to 8.8.8.8, you can't access your corporate network at all. Don't believe me? Try changing a colleagues DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS's) and see how long does it take for them to figure out why they can't access their email, file shares and other i Somehow or rather, both sides don't seem to like each other. MNC's will say startup guys are
Startup guys also say MNC people are
Maybe I am exaggerating but that is the feeling I get when I was going through the FI course. It was not just local guys but those who were sharing with us from the US as well! But I really feel that MNC's will benefit from having people with startup training in the organization! Maybe not in all roles but for project based roles or product based roles they will be great! So why do I say that?
I'll talk about why corporate guys are good for startups later on... but these are my thoughts for today. Do let me know if I forgot something! It's not about the money. Money has clouded our judgement, our motives and our actions. But what do we want is to have a purpose!
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