Stumbled on a most intriguing video post on my Facebook news feed asking "Do you know what motivates you?" (go watch it now then come back)
Last week, a friend confided in me that a recent meeting with her manager extinguished any enthusiasm she had left for her job. It was a performance appraisal meeting, and her manager showed her the "stats" -- call center metrics that counted how many calls she had taken / closed / left open still, emphasizing that because she had closed only X amount of calls, she would get only X percentage of salary raise. Suddenly it became clear to her: she's not there to be an engineer (she thought she was because you have to be one to get that job), she was there to meet a "quota". It was a numbers game right from the start. Boy, was she duped.
She had taken the red pill.
Honestly, I could care less about pay increases. Nowadays, it just means my taxes got a little bigger. I do wish though that I was getting paid doing what I'm passionate about. But as it is, I'm bored out of my wits. And I haven't kept that a secret.
More than anything, I want to have purpose and growth.
It looks like I'd have to find that somewhere else, even if I get paid only in GCs (which is not bad at all. I like GCs) or not at all (which is also fine).
Last week, a friend confided in me that a recent meeting with her manager extinguished any enthusiasm she had left for her job. It was a performance appraisal meeting, and her manager showed her the "stats" -- call center metrics that counted how many calls she had taken / closed / left open still, emphasizing that because she had closed only X amount of calls, she would get only X percentage of salary raise. Suddenly it became clear to her: she's not there to be an engineer (she thought she was because you have to be one to get that job), she was there to meet a "quota". It was a numbers game right from the start. Boy, was she duped.
She had taken the red pill.
Honestly, I could care less about pay increases. Nowadays, it just means my taxes got a little bigger. I do wish though that I was getting paid doing what I'm passionate about. But as it is, I'm bored out of my wits. And I haven't kept that a secret.
More than anything, I want to have purpose and growth.
It looks like I'd have to find that somewhere else, even if I get paid only in GCs (which is not bad at all. I like GCs) or not at all (which is also fine).
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