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Around 4 years into my working life. By then I was 2 years into my second job. That’s when I realized I should be working the equivalent of what I was being paid, not more.
Edit: I remember the exact moment now! Someone in HR fucked up and emailed a spreadsheet of everyone’s salaries to the entire company. Seeing my pay compared to other people was the eye opener.
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Doesn't it cost a dollar to be nice now?
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Ok honestly I never worked hard, because I couldn't ever work harder than possible. So birth?
I always take on much more than I should because thats apparently at least 2 things. So 34
But being really nice just feels better. So when I die.
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Idk, doing all of that is how I went from a customer service agent to a senior IT engineer within 5 years.
You just have to know when to do that stuff and when to coast.
It's doable still. To be fair it was never automatic. But I would like to recognize that it's harder than it used to be.
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Wage disparity is getting worse and it's getting harder to get those companies to give those upgrades. They're doing the opposite and just firing people to shed money for reports that make record numbers.
Decent companies that reward people for hard work still exist. But they're no longer the default. You're not going to get this in a cafe or in a fast food job or anything like that, It's going to have to be a skilled labor job in a corporation run by someone who's not a greedy monster which can be kind of a hard find these days.
You're going to need to be pleasant to be around, You might need to brown nose a little bit. Your may you need to point out to your boss that you're doing a good job, don't be afraid to point out your accomplishments.
If you put in the hours and work hard and can't get anywhere change jobs. When your interviewing for new jobs openly point out that you work hard and you're looking for compensation for that. If that hiring manager smirks or makes a face you don't want to work there. Remember your interviewing them maybe even more so than their interviewing you if you already have a job.
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About 8 maybe 10 at the latest
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Preteens. My mom worked her ass off and we lived in poverty.
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A kid. Probably around 10 or so. I don't ever remember planning that, in fact my goals were to have a good work life balance and trying to be myself as much as possible, even if that meant being a bitch to people. Within reason of course, not taking advantage of others.
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I had the good fortune to be influenced by the slackers of the preceding generation, so my plan was always to do the minimum amount of work and take on as little as possible.
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this post has enlightened me
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As a person with ADHD. It feels like I always knew that working hard wouldn't get automatic rewards. Because no matter how hard I worked, I was never like the rst of the kids, and was always told I needed to try hardrr.
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When I was about ten. Washed my uncle's Corvette without negotiating a price. I finished and the fucker didn't pay because "I didn't set a price before I started" or something to that effect.
10. Years. Old. I'm now almost 60 and still haven't forgot that. Hopefully I haven't turned into the ass he can bePeople like that will do shit like that and then genuinely think "I thought them a valuable lesson." Like... no, arsehole, you just traumatised a kid for absolutely no reason and taught them that hard work doesn't pay.
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But you do get rewarded!......with more work.
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i refuse to accept a nihilistic stance on this tbh, i will keep doing me and if life wants to be a bitch about it she is free to give me her worst
we shan’t buckleI have the same and I think it's something like this, but for humans:
Like it's not hard to abuse people's trust, but if everyone did it, humanity would literally not exist. So we've learned to tolerate the dumb-fucks who don't get that and try to "game the system" (ie just being selfish cunts) so that society and humanity overall will prevail.
However since the industrial revolution, it hasn't worked, because abusing the trust and good will of others has become even more efficient and the amount of capital one person can accumulate makes a single person so wealthy and powerful that they can actually ruin the lives of all the non-psychopathic people who aren't being greedy society-destroying cunts.
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16, 21, 27, 32, and 37. I just keep forgetting for some reason.
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In school when I realized that the people who copied homework and cheated in exams could get the same grades as me with a quarter of the effort + everyone else gave you shit if you told on them and the teacher still didn’t change their grade because you have no proof.
wrote last edited by [email protected]School taught me how to be lazy. I had no idea or motivation to be lazy before I saw how much effort I was wasting.
I taught myself how to read before going to school and the reward was being placed in an empty classroom to read by myself when everyone else was learning how to spell. Unsupervised. Alone. "Sit here and read" Bitch I could do that at home wtf am I here for
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About 10 years ago, when I realized that automating my job just means I get more work (when I share my automations). Now a days, I still share some of my automations, but I wrote and hoard scripts to make me look good (and also lets me write more scripts since it takes probably about as long as my mid-level coworkers).
Upside is I can look like an absolute wizard when I want to.
This is it. You cant give it your all every day. Youll be filled to capacity every day and be miserable. Then those days / weeks where your work load increase, you turn it up to 11, hit all your deliverables, and look like a champ
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15 yo me just went straight into cyber security because of easy money so...
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Early 20s. Almost 40 now.
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When I was about ten. Washed my uncle's Corvette without negotiating a price. I finished and the fucker didn't pay because "I didn't set a price before I started" or something to that effect.
10. Years. Old. I'm now almost 60 and still haven't forgot that. Hopefully I haven't turned into the ass he can bewrote last edited by [email protected]I would throw mud on his car every time i saw him until he paid up.
Turns out "teaching someone a lesson" can go both ways.
