Alright, question 2 for my Career Life Domain: Why do I believe those things?
So there were a lot of things I wrote down, so gotta keep track of them all.
Meaning in career / impact
Who I work with is important
Hiring someone who’s okay with making mistakes
Mundane appealing
Supervisor - supervisee relationship (trust & autonomy)
Hiring me should be best decision every
HR could be most important
Employee - seat fit
Hiring alignment to performance review
Toxic vs Healthy work cultures
Hierarchical vs flatter
X > Y vs x = y
No feedback criticism vs safe space for feedback
Work over everything vs balance
No trust / ownership / autonomy vs trust / ownership / autonomy
Individual > company success vs company success and greater cause
Not okay with mistakes vs embracing mistakes
Nice but not genuine vs genuine
Doing something that’s never been done before
Trying out new ideas
Expression of self
Monday = Friday
Work ~ Life
Attracting the right profession
Fork in the road in my career
Creating job / industry
Multi-careered
View something at clouds and dirt level
Sacrificing my dreams for others
9-5 job no more
Small vs large companies
Parents seeing risk and failure vs me seeing potential, opportunity, passion, purpose, and connectedness
Parent seeing comfort, success, pride, and prestige vs me seeing stagnation, confinement, boringness, and bureaucracy
Building a brand name vs joining one
Specialized conglomerates
Create a system where understanding who we truly are
Not tied to a single location
Living in Tier 2/3 cities
Comforting / at ease vs comfortable / easy
Expectations of results vs expectancy of effort
Balance of remote vs in person
Customizable desks and workspace
I’ll never really retire (growing exponentially)
Expectancy with $
No higher education
Ok, so listing all these out, it looks like some themes are are naturally emerging. What I’ll do is segment them out by question word. First set of topics can discuss ‘who'?
Why do I believe that who I work with is one of the most important things?
There is so much to learn in, from, and with people. The company that I surround myself with is everything. WOAH! When people use’ company’ in the context of your social circles, that’s one thing. And those circles and groups that you hang with tell a lot about yourself. But here, the word ‘ company’ is also used in the context of a business or organization.
Maybe they’re one and the same.
The company that we work at determines the company that we surround ourselves with.
Like we get to choose our friend groups when we choose to work at a company. We don’t really do that with grade school. We have a bit more autonomy when choosing colleges, but sometimes it’s limited geographically or financially. But when we choose our profession, we can be whatever we want to be. We have total independence.
Over history, I think the variability and selection of career choices has only been increasing. So the more choice we have to do what we want with that. But the thing is people have forgotten about the human connections in an organization and instead focused on how high within a company they can get or how much money they’re making. Instead of focusing their energy on how can I help someone else? And how can I be the best version of myself? We’ve lost that bearing.
I will invariably collect imprints from these colleagues and start thinking and acting like them like anyone would with their friends. If I spend any substantial amount of time with them, then I’m going to pick up words, language, thoughts, feelings, and more from them. So who I spend one-half to one-third of my waking day with is crucial to how I independently live my life.
What experiences have led me to have this belief?
The belief that who I work with will shape who I become.
I think that social media and content that I consume has a decent part to do with it. That I see and hear people complaining about their coworkers and gossiping about them. But I’m thinking when they say that 1) I want to share my compassion with you, and 2) how those people think is infiltrating how you think to a certain extent.
Personally, when I started working and just being around high-achieving individuals at 2U, that just becomes the norm. And I was always high-achieving, at least through high school. But college I could have gone out of my way more to be around more of those people.
What about from childhood? I guess I never really saw or met my dad’s coworkers cuz he’d mostly travel. But maybe they’d always be working after hours, becoming stressed and being content with life in middle management. Because that’s what my dad showed signs of and had become.
The thing is when you’re in it, it takes more energy to see from a different perspective. It just becomes habit to operate like your peers. In school, teachers will express how they feel to other teachers and sometimes to other students. And it can be a mixed bag. I mean I didn’t make it easy on some teachers lol. But it’s the same mindset that people in the same profession have a higher chance of sharing with each other.
Diversity in who I work with in all forms will lead to diversity in everything else that I embody. The diversity and creativity of who I work with is the energy being shared from person to the next.
But I think my beliefs on this one may stem a great deal more from my career and life after college compared to childhood experiences. Just because I didn’t have many of those. I’ve gotten to realize that this is what I believe through working and experiencing different people at different workplaces.
In this regard, these are my ‘childhood’ experiences as it relates to my career cuz I’m only ~4 years old in that context. And everything in my childhood, whether absolute or relative, is more impressionable upon me.
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