"Let’s be honest. “Do what you love” is great if you can swing it, but nearly everyone will have to get a job they hate at some point. If you don’t want to stay there, though, treat the job like it’s just training for a better one." via Treat A Job You Hate As Training to Move On to Something Better
Not every culture, no matter how well-intentioned or how many happy-smiling faces greet you at the door, works for us.
When that happens, we still have to engage, though, in order to "treat the job like it’s just training for a better one."
When the going gets tough ... engage.
I've had jobs that, well, sucked. Everything, everyone. That included me the longer I stayed there. Fish outta water was what I was. Clearly, something worked ... for them. Not for me.
But to move on to something better ... I needed "treat the job like it’s just training for a better one." So I carved my own paths, a few of them didn't take me over the cliff. I studied and chronicled all the things in that place that worked, once worked and no longer worked. Sure, I shared them and yeah, events showed I was right but I was the wrong messenger at the wrong time.
But I learned a lot.
Mostly, I learned what not to do. EVER.
Sometimes, frequently, success is just learning what NOT to do and NOT doing it.
But back to them, when the going got tough, I engaged. My manager didn't want me to engage, my CEO definitely didn't want me to engage. Matter o' fact, he told me once to "stop thinking like a CEO." Yeah, funny. And still I engaged and learned and my personal integrity remained intact.
When the going gets tough ... engage. It's your decision, not your manager's or your 'culture's' or HR's. Engage, learn, grow, move on to something better.
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