Tag: Career
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EP 235 (172/365) Work-Life Balance Part-2
For me Work-life balance is not a mathematical problem that you solve in equal percentages, or any percentage for that matter. It has to do with being contented. Knowing what you want out of work and what you want out of Life. If you do not know that or at least check your level of…
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EP 234 (171/365) Work-Life Balance Part-1
One of the most commonly used phrases. I heard it first a few years into starting to work and I laughed at it because for me there was no much difference between the two. Work and Life were more or less the same. My friends were those with whom I worked and we worked on weekends…
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EP 228 (165/365) Contribute More than you Work
Some time in early Nineties I had read that Money is the worst Motivator, yet businesses all over have been providing monetary incentives to their employees to get work done. Even today salary and perks are the main reason most people people go to work… What would you do if you had all the money…
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EP 220 (157/365) What matters most at Work
If not people.. which I mentioned in my last post.. What matters to you most at work….? if we had to choose something else… other than people what would that be… I have been thinking about it and lot of things came to my mine… title… power.. money…. purpose….. and so on… I think money…
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EP 218 (155/365) What is Commitment in a job
How committed are we in our job? How committed should we be? How can we ensure we are committed.. What do you think employers or our team mates or manager thinks of commitment… Are our managers more committed than us because they have a fancier title or higher salaries and have more power in the…
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EP 217 (154/365) Why do you want this job?
You are going for an interview and they ask you why do you want this job? What will your answer be… I am sure we all will have our own answers…. And based on our situation our real answer can be different… I say real answer because not everyone will give the real answer.. they…
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133/365 Work on the stronger branch
‘You need to work on the stronger branch’… I heard this phrase a few days back… I am not sure if I read it or I heard it… Either way I loved it… The context in which I heard it was on career and work… it was talking about identifying the stronger branch among our…
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117/365 My Remote Work Chronology
Pandemic was a time when many people who had not done remote work started doing it. I was someone who had experienced remote work for several years in my career. But that did not matter because it was different now. I started remote working immediately after college when I started out on my own assembling…
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113/365 A tale in Career Recovery
In 2010 I was at a crossroad with a mounting debt, no clear idea of a possible career even after spending 17 years in an Industry that has been booming all the while. In short I did not know what skill of mine can be sold or projected as being employable. On a September day…
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112/365 Decisions that might have cost me my career
There are decisions we take in our life that can cost us either immediately or in the long run. I have experimented a lot with my career and also made decisions and if I look back it has had its impact. I think it would be nice to reflect back. There is a price…. The…
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