This is dumb. But just to talk corpo for a bit (because that is the reality for many of us): early in your career, putting in extra study time (or just making time on the clock if possible) will give you a leg up for certain kinds of white collar work. Just because you’ll know more.
But doing work on weekends will set you apart as a damned sucker who can be used by others to make career moves. So do that if you want to feel someone’s pump in your eye socket as they trample you to reach for their dream job.
You’re never going to get promoted to an easier job if you’ve proven you can build like 2x more widgets than your co-workers.
You’ll get to a better job by showing up with your co-workers to the boss’ house and asking nicely.
I’m lucky enough with my position that we have pretty well defined pay bands that mention our levels of knowledge, easily identifiable systems and managers that are basically expected to pay us to those bands when our knowledge increases. The one thing we don’t have is enough time to effectively skill people up past a certain point. If you can spare the time, you basically will get promoted. We also have a lovely flex time system - work whenever between 7-6:30 as long as you hit 36 hours a week over 3 months, never heard of any pressure to come in early or anything like that with it either.
I love transparent / open books, and I bring it up at every company I join, but unfortunately I don’t know of any local employers that do this, outside of big institutions or tiny cooperatives. But I guess I can just keep looking on the remote job market.
Your job sounds very human! I’m happy with my set up as well. We don’t have a Clock so to speak, so as long as you’re available, make meetings on time, and get your tasks done, no one cares how you do it.
This is dumb. But just to talk corpo for a bit (because that is the reality for many of us): early in your career, putting in extra study time (or just making time on the clock if possible) will give you a leg up for certain kinds of white collar work. Just because you’ll know more.
But doing work on weekends will set you apart as a damned sucker who can be used by others to make career moves. So do that if you want to feel someone’s pump in your eye socket as they trample you to reach for their dream job.
You’re never going to get promoted to an easier job if you’ve proven you can build like 2x more widgets than your co-workers.
You’ll get to a better job by showing up with your co-workers to the boss’ house and asking nicely.
I’m lucky enough with my position that we have pretty well defined pay bands that mention our levels of knowledge, easily identifiable systems and managers that are basically expected to pay us to those bands when our knowledge increases. The one thing we don’t have is enough time to effectively skill people up past a certain point. If you can spare the time, you basically will get promoted. We also have a lovely flex time system - work whenever between 7-6:30 as long as you hit 36 hours a week over 3 months, never heard of any pressure to come in early or anything like that with it either.
I love transparent / open books, and I bring it up at every company I join, but unfortunately I don’t know of any local employers that do this, outside of big institutions or tiny cooperatives. But I guess I can just keep looking on the remote job market.
Your job sounds very human! I’m happy with my set up as well. We don’t have a Clock so to speak, so as long as you’re available, make meetings on time, and get your tasks done, no one cares how you do it.