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TimmyClutch said:
Make sure all of your accomplishments are memorialized somehow so when it comes time to review, you can give them a list of your highlights.
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perhaps it’s just my history with low level employment, but besides sales, I haven’t really had much opportunity for accomplishment - just task completion. Specifically in working with autistic and special needs children the only real areas for career accomplishment were reserved for graduate students. The only other areas where you could strive were in personal relationships, and that stuff is just chalked up to “having the right personality for the job”
 
Mine is only about money. I feel personal achievement in things I accomplish and that's enjoyable but the only reason I'd like to take on increasing responsibility in a work context is to get paid more.
 
Yeah, I think I'm also lucky in the fact that I was raised comfortably middle class and have always been comfortably middle class in an area with a pretty insanely low cost of living and I don't really like cars or watches or super nice dinners so money has never really been a significant driving factor for me. I'm pretty sure that's defined as privilege.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
perhaps it’s just my history with low level employment, but besides sales, I haven’t really had much opportunity for accomplishment - just task completion. Specifically in working with autistic and special needs children the only real areas for career accomplishment were reserved for graduate students. The only other areas where you could strive were in personal relationships, and that stuff is just chalked up to “having the right personality for the job”
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New job, new opportunities. Find someone who is doing well at this new company and try to figure out why they are doing well and emulate. If you cant figure it out, ask them, how they are able to do a good job. People like compliments. A lot of things can be considered accomplishments in business, new organization system, new outreach, new way of doing things, just think about how you can best sell what you are doing.
 
Yeah. Seems like task completion could be sold as accomplishments.
 
One of the concepts I have taken from running is "Rate of Perceived Exertion". So, a typical weekend run for me will be at 50-70% of my max effort, or RPE. I think of work the same way. There is no way I can maintain the effort needed to be a complete executive badass. There are definitely weeks or months where I am sprinting at 90-100%, but any longer than that and I'm definitely feeling burnout. So, I'd say I cruise at around 50-70% of max effort throughout my typical work week. I do find it hard to go less than 50% without feeling guilty. But, this level seems to balance work and home needs pretty well.

Edit to add that Chat Thread gets my 100% all the time.
 
mako1331 said:
I have absolutely no desire to rise above my current position. I’ve been asked to go into administration on numerous occasions and my superintendent was actually almost adamant about it in our last meeting, but I really enjoy where I’m at and what I do. Of course education is pretty different in most aspects than private business I think.
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Yeah this is me. I strive for more conservation impact and to help students but not more prestige or power or whatever. I want to do this from within my position, I have zero interest in administrative positions. I'd take more money though.
 
What is everyone's dream job?

Mine is to be Chief of Staff to a high level exec again at some point. I just want to be Hand of the King,
 
What I'm in should probably be my dream(ish) job, but I'm just over it all, and honestly dream job is a bit of an oxymoron for me, personally. I get paid shit, which would be fine if it came close to keeping up with cost of living, but it does not. It is very stable and reasonably secure, though, I guess. I deal with cool shit most of the day if I want to, meet interesting folks occasionally, but unless I'm specifically called on to do something or there's something in my face that needs doing, the effort is pretty minimal, which sometimes I feel guilty about, but not really when I put it in perspective of the world being on fire and getting paid shit and some things being totally at the mercy of a psychotic legislature. I also got the best review of my life this past year, so I guess I'll take it and just see how long I can ride it out. Circumstances on the job are about to change drastically in the next year though, with a multi-year building closure, so I'm not sure how I'll handle that.
 
birdman said:
Yeah this is me. I strive for more conservation impact and to help students but not more prestige or power or whatever. I want to do this from within my position, I have zero interest in administrative positions. I'd take more money though.
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Same here. Education is a good place for people who want to grow horizontally in terms of impact and reputation without having to move up the ladder in terms of power and responsibility. I don't have to do administration unless I want to. Thankfully I have plenty of colleagues interested in being chair one day, so even though I've been asked, I can say no without pissing anybody off.

But you've got to be creative to get more money. Either make lateral moves or find something you like to do and move up doing that.
 
mako1331 said:
Yeah, I think I'm also lucky in the fact that I was raised comfortably middle class and have always been comfortably middle class in an area with a pretty insanely low cost of living and I don't really like cars or watches or super nice dinners so money has never really been a significant driving factor for me. I'm pretty sure that's defined as privilege.
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This was me and it led me to have jobs that I really cared about. Both my wife and I made career moves in the last year where we could finally talk about real saving/retirement beyond the company provided 401k for the first time ever. It’s fine, but my kids are about to go to college and we’re freaking out a little.
 
TimmyClutch said:
General Counsel at a Private Jet company (cough @guitardeac cough)
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Like attainable/for real or like in a “I want to be Batman” sense?

For the former, ability to start own NP with significant funding (i.e lottery winning) to focus on the works and filling in real gaps and advocating for systemic change without having to grind for funding constantly.

Latter - actor, would love to go the Hugh Jackman route and get some noterity through film and settle into doing live musical theater
 
IamThunderbolt said:
This was me and it led me to have jobs that I really cared about. Both my wife and I made career moves in the last year where we could finally talk about real saving/retirement beyond the company provided 401k for the first time ever. It’s fine, but my kids are about to go to college and we’re freaking out a little.
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Yeah, I think that being able to pay for our kids’ college is our driving economic motivation. Luckily for us with the size of our school and the area we live in it’s not super difficult to find tons of scholarship money if they put forth any effort in high school.
 
IamThunderbolt said:
Like attainable/for real or like in a “I want to be Batman” sense?

For the former, ability to start own NP with significant funding (i.e lottery winning) to focus on the works and filling in real gaps and advocating for systemic change without having to grind for funding constantly.

Latter - actor, would love to go the Hugh Jackman route and get some noterity through film and settle into doing live musical theater
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Well unfortunately, I think GM of the Patriots is slightly out of reach, so I went with attainable/for real life
 
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