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We were four interns at my first job and after six months, 3 were retained. I wasn't. 
I then got suspended from my next full-time job, six months after.
Here are five lessons I've learned from sucking at a 9-5.
I then got suspended from my next full-time job, six months after.
Here are five lessons I've learned from sucking at a 9-5.
1. I'm not Steve Jobs
This one hurt the most because I thought I was. I have the best ideas. I can visualise the future. Well, it turns out that I donât.
Or maybe I do but ultimately if it doesnât align with the companyâs vision, it should be dropped.
This one hurt the most because I thought I was. I have the best ideas. I can visualise the future. Well, it turns out that I donât.
Or maybe I do but ultimately if it doesnât align with the companyâs vision, it should be dropped.
When you have an idea of how things should go, wait for the right time to suggest it. Do not counter your bossesâ idea defiantly with your own.
Instead, do what youâre asked to do first and then give a suggestion on how it can be improved.
Essentially, why were you hired?
Instead, do what youâre asked to do first and then give a suggestion on how it can be improved.
Essentially, why were you hired?
2. Learn to Play Office Politics
If youâre like me, then you believe you can do your work in private and not blow your own trumpet or be in peopleâs faces.
Yikes! Thatâs your ego, hiding in plain sight. It is a lie from the pit of hades, sent to ruin your professional life.
If youâre like me, then you believe you can do your work in private and not blow your own trumpet or be in peopleâs faces.
Yikes! Thatâs your ego, hiding in plain sight. It is a lie from the pit of hades, sent to ruin your professional life.
Buy Nathaniel Bassey's trumpet and blow it. Donât be an ass about it of course. Compliment your colleagues and superiors frequently.
If you work remotely, show up at the office from time to time â out of sight is out of mind.
Communicate your way to being loved.
If you work remotely, show up at the office from time to time â out of sight is out of mind.
Communicate your way to being loved.
âAssumptionâ is the beginning of the end
No one in the history of professional work has ever gotten a reward for assuming. Iâm weird because I always think I can break the mould.
So I assume and assume again till I assumed my way into queries.
No one in the history of professional work has ever gotten a reward for assuming. Iâm weird because I always think I can break the mould.
So I assume and assume again till I assumed my way into queries.
Before you begin a task, ask all the necessary questions and more if you need to. Better is the clown at the meeting than the fool when itâs time to review. (Yikes, tHAT's me)
Assume Nothing, Seek to understand everything.
Assume Nothing, Seek to understand everything.
You can read the other two Lessons in the full article below: https://medium.com/the-innovation/5-lessons-i-learned-from-sucking-at-my-job-s-84729782c6f9
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