Lol why are you getting downvoted, “your progress in this society is dependent on your luck of knowing people with power who like you” is a perfectly reasonable take
It’s because people on this site love to try to frame the world in black and white. They don’t seem to realize that there’s a pretty large space between ‘do literally everything your boss says’ and ‘do nothing but what’s explicitly outlined in your job description’
They don’t realize that doing extra work and not getting compensated monetarily isn’t giving the work away for free. It would be, if you continue to work for a managerial structure that doesn’t value their employees.
But, if that’s the case, then your compensation is in the training to grow your career. Get good at the new stuff and find a job that will pay you more for the new skills.
I wouldn’t have been able to go from a Helpdesk tech to a senior systems engineer if I never accepted projects that were more advanced than my job description. I treated that first job like an internship, and now I have a successful career.
You also have to know how to identify things that will advance your career, and learn how to say no to one’s that don’t.
Lol why are you getting downvoted, “your progress in this society is dependent on your luck of knowing people with power who like you” is a perfectly reasonable take
Because they didn’t present it that way.
That’s how I immediately interpreted it, looks that way to me
It’s because people on this site love to try to frame the world in black and white. They don’t seem to realize that there’s a pretty large space between ‘do literally everything your boss says’ and ‘do nothing but what’s explicitly outlined in your job description’
They don’t realize that doing extra work and not getting compensated monetarily isn’t giving the work away for free. It would be, if you continue to work for a managerial structure that doesn’t value their employees.
But, if that’s the case, then your compensation is in the training to grow your career. Get good at the new stuff and find a job that will pay you more for the new skills.
I wouldn’t have been able to go from a Helpdesk tech to a senior systems engineer if I never accepted projects that were more advanced than my job description. I treated that first job like an internship, and now I have a successful career.
You also have to know how to identify things that will advance your career, and learn how to say no to one’s that don’t.