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I personally take on jobs I'm not assigned. But I think believing someone owes you a promotion for working hard is bs. Instead, work on the things you find valu
by pleasanthipster 11y ago
I personally take on jobs I'm not assigned. But I think believing someone owes you a promotion for working hard is bs. Instead, work on the things you find valuable in whatever way you want it to be.
Tbh though I actually agree with your comment 100% but there is a positive way to spin it
- dagw 11y agoI personally take on jobs I'm not assigned. Instead of or in addition to your normal duties? Or do you find that your normal duties don't fill a normal work week?
- mikekchar 11y agomikekchar's rule of strategic incompetence: Never be really, really good at something that your don't want to do. Otherwise people will keep asking you to do it. Corollary (and the useful bit): If you show yourself to be really, really good at something people will keep asking you to do it. If it's something you like, then you will be happy in your job. In any job there are 1000's of things that need to get done that nobody is doing right now. It is a good investment to do some of the things that you enjoy and get really, really good at it. Over time you will find that it will become your job.
- vinceguidry 11y ago> Never be really, really good at something that your don't want to do. Otherwise people will keep asking you to do it. This is how I was able to avoid getting roped into the IT help desk role. I did that job for a year at another company, I'm really good at it. But when someone comes around looking for help and the guy they hired isn't there, I do not offer to help. No way am I going back to that, I didn't develop Rails skills for nothing.
- test1235 11y agoEmail templates for me. I could do them, being primarily a frontend dev, but I would rather turn down a job than have to deal with that bs.