Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
The key is LEVERAGE.
I started out as a go-fer for a business, Quickly moving up the ranks as turnover was high. Amassed skills along the way. I butted heads with mgt. all the time, but these weren't men who moved up through the ranks themselves, but clowns who were parachuted in. With a wide scope and range of skills, my leverage regarding ability in multiple positions insured job security against petty mgt. who couldn't see the forest from the trees.
Cap has issues with bullish!t degrees and I can't blame him. But the whole time nobody knew I had a degree in field X and was self-taught in a related craft. Actual work results were what spoke loudest.
In my day-to-day job, what I've taught myself and learned in the workplace amounts to 90%, and what I learned in school amounts to 10%. But that 10% is a foundation I don't regret in the slightest.
Kinda like learning the alphabet before you can do any decent writing.
Anyway, in your workplace, make yourself as invaluable as you can to establish leverage against crappy mgt. decisions. I didn't plan this so I suppose in retrospect I lucked out in a way.
Keep the company's big picture in mind and you'll easily leapfrog over the useless toads.
Dec 17, 2013, 8:21:09 AM
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