Life’s a big cosmic carnival and your job is just one of the funhouse mirrors in it. And if you’re not tweaking that mirror to show you the reflection you want, you’re just standing around waiting for someone else to paint your face like a clown. Job crafting, my friend, is basically saying, “Hey, I’m…
Tag: Skills
Wrath and Rage
Some people go to work every day, and they just let it all slide. The backstabbing, the incompetence, the guy in accounting who somehow doesn’t know how to use Excel despite working in accounting. None of it fazes them. They walk through the foul mistreatment of a workplace like they’re strolling through a light drizzle—annoying?…
Hard and Paranoid
You’ve got to be hard. Life doesn’t hand out participation trophies. Those easy answers you crave? They’re garbage. They’re for the weak, the complacent. They make you soft, and there’s nothing more shameful than settling for mediocrity. If you’re content with half-assed efforts, you might as well throw in the towel now. Real achievement, real…
Hippie Career Obliviousness
I never considered the idea of a career because I lived as a hippie. There was always some job that paid enough so I had food and a place to live. Modern life seemed to make a wife and kids improbable, so there was no pressure to have a complex job paying enough to support…
Neither Career Nor Good Work
We were a bunch of savages gathering random parts collected haphazardly
rather than planning to craft greatness.