Tag: Career
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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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67/365 Negative people on day 1 at work
I don’t know if you have felt this way. Your enthusiasm of being at work on the first day is burst like a balloon by people who tell you have bad things are…. what kind of a mess you have gotten into… OK may be not day 1 but as you go by the week.…
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64/365 What should my relationship to work be
The question is becoming even more relevant with time. May be it is because there is choice. In olden days the choice was non existent for a majority of people. The elite always had choices. That is why we see that when the masses toiled in fields and factories… the elites dabbled on poetry and…
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62/365 Keeping Passion Separate From Work
Before I start I want to tell you all that, this is what I think now and I might change my thought down the line when I understand life better. Like many others I also grew up hearing that ‘follow your passion’. If you start getting paid for what you like to do then you…
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43/365 Not hours worked; but Value Delivered
This pandemic time there has been a lot of discussions on work hours and work days and working from home and so on. The conversation will continue as people hash out various aspects of the future of work. In a recent call that I did with a group of college students over zoom I told…
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