How do you stay committed to learning why you need to do well in your job when you know you could be surplused at any time — and it can all feel pointless?
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43 years, I never worked for "the leaders." I did stuff, people depended on that, I worked for them. That's the answer. F leadership and their schemes.
That's why I enjoyed being a sup - I could address BS from the higher ups and let my people do the important work.
It's been like that for years and years and years. You just put your head down and do the work you are asked to do; and then you get paid for it. Pretty simple. If you are looking for more challenges or a better environment, you get out of a place like AT&T ASAP. You don't stick around.
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Make your best effort up to the point where more company effort begins to negatively impact family, mind, body and spirit. Do your best for personal respect and knowing your limits. Try to build and grow. In the end it will increase your value, even if the corp. doesn't see it. It will keep you valuable to other potential jobs, to people you care about and to your self worth. Balanced effort will keep you valuable and healthy.
Do the minimum, keep quiet, be well liked by the bosses. Just say yes, don’t disagree. Do a decent job, not great, don’t be the go to person for everything - mediocrity will get you promoted, hard work and results will get you more hard work. You’re too valuable to promote if you’re producing.
Imagine, if you will... One big, bald ape screaming and beating his chest. A bunch of smartly dressed apes with perfect hair and expensive cars shriek wildly at every grunt the bald ape makes. Down below, thousands of monkeys wearing Jos. A. Bank sports coats and pant suits scurry around inside a huge plexiglass cube, looking for a place to sit and slinging fe--s at one another.
Surrounding the quagmire stand 10's of thousands of confused creatures who are working tirelessly to on transcribing the complete works of William Shakespeare. They long to see the sun but the masters keep a steady supply of slop in the troughs so they eat and roll around in their filth, hoping that one day they will be plucked from the masses and allowed entry into the cube.
Everyone i know gives zero fcks about their meaningless job. We do the very minimum that's required and take as many paid days off as we can get away with without getting fired.
I've given up on doing well for AT&T long, long ago. Plenty of seats still available so it's not too late to hop on the Disengagement Express!
A sense of integrity and your pride should keep you moving forward, do everything as unto the Lord
Focus your training on curriculum that is universal such as learning AI.
Stop caring so much. Aim for mediocrity. Anything more, as you say, is pointless