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eh.. havent figured it out yet tbh
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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.
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eh.. havent figured it out yet tbh
Me 2. Read about it but something inside me still resists against really accepting this.
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I never figured it out, I just burned out so hard that I burned my bridges with the people who were abusing my time and willingness to help.
It's a shame they were also paying me, but at least now my mental health is slowly recovering.
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I've known this on some level for decades, but it only really got through to me a few months ago. It was my 10 year anniversary at work, and no one even mentioned or acknowledged it.
While it hurt at first, I've come to be deeply grateful for it. It really freed me of the last vestiges of magical thinking like in OP.
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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.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A professional is consistent and manages expectations. I believe my performance is much more liked because I’m incredibly consistent, smoothing out the highly productive days and blending them with the less productive ones.
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Me 2. Read about it but something inside me still resists against really accepting this.
Amen. Why should I be less good just because lots of other people suck?
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The right people will recognize and appreciate your efforts. Of course there are those that will try to take advantage of you, so you need to either learn to say “no” or pace your work to appear busy when they ask for more.
If I continue to be nice and work hard, it’s because I hold myself to certain standards and won’t let ungrateful people worsen me.
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Me 2. Read about it but something inside me still resists against really accepting this.
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
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Still be really nice. It’s usually not too much effort, but is always appreciated, especially by those who need that niceness the most.
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Coming in from a European perspective. During my first real job, I wanted to impress my supervisor. I was working some overtime (much less than I did as a student). My supervisor started passing by my office between 4pm and 5pm, letting me know it was time to go home, there was no need to overdo it. He was great… often telling me how I was exceeding expectations, and that was great as long as I was keeping a good work life balance.
Socialised protections are amazing… I still work overtime at times, but only when I feel like it (and I still never report it), I only taken on the amount of work I feel I can reasonably do. I strive for efficiency, not overburdening myself.
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Basically never had that. I’m nice because why wouldn’t I be? And I don’t overwork myself because on the occasions that I did it only ever hurt me while some manager who underpaid me already got all the benefits. I do put in a lot of effort when I helping a friend or something and they really needed it and that was its own reward(but still take care of yourself, you can’t help others if you’re broken).
I don’t think it’s a brag, I think it’s just the AuDHD making it so I spend more time than most asking questions that authorities don’t like and my parents, especially my mom, were pretty decent about not being dictators who might send me the other direction toward a trauma response(which is valid and I have great sympathy for those that got put on that path).
There are ways out of it, but we gotta keep pushing and people who are lucky to be like myself need to make sure we stick up for those who don’t have this automatic response. It’s a privilege and using it just for ourselves will not only not fix anything but it will also, if you need a selfish reason, continue the trend of abuse that bad, defensive managers and the like will dump on us for just asking questions at our jobs.
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About 15 years ago when I went to work for a small company that promised me the ability to earn ownership shares but they never delivered.
I have since figured out a better approach that I wish I could discuss openly without making people mad at me.
edit: I'm still trying to be a good person and participate in community and not be a shithead to people. I just don't play the same capitalism eat-your-young game anymore.
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10, maybe 12.
Same here, guess my puberty revolt was about me not getting rewarded for doing my best and being nice all the time. Fuck you world, you suck. Good thing I eventually came to see you have to be the good you want to see if you want to be ok with living in in this world.
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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.
I recorded a vim macro the other day that made me feel like a wizard
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Ive done some form of construction off and on since 12 now I'm in tech, but,working for a cable company we had 90 min including drive time to perform a 75 point quality check/fix, and fix the problem the customer has plus fix the last techs work. Became clear the name of the game was to get in and get out, make it as good as possible and don't get caught with the things you didnt do. They don't care about any of us, the customer or the employee. Just help the customer as well as you can.
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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 be -
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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.
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Still be really nice. It’s usually not too much effort, but is always appreciated, especially by those who need that niceness the most.
Doesn't it cost a dollar to be nice now?
