is bettering yourself only valuable if the "bettering" comes in the form of career and socio economic status?
the more i want for my family is time - presence is the most valuable thing and when time is more valuable than money i'm willing to give up the money for the time. stable budgets have more to do with you spend money than how you make it, and time is no different. i'm not gonna place the bet that giving up time for money now will reward me with more time later. it's the same thing randy says about hunting: hunt now, cause later probably won't pan out for you the way you'd ideally want if that's your plan.
living for the career is soooo last generation bro
Exactly and to expand on that.
I think any manager that lives under "well, that's how I did it"...is a total tool that completely misunderstands how to motivate and play to an employees strong points. They also lack the ability to recognize that times have changed and employees are motivated differently today than when you "did it your way".
Too often in business and government there is a tendency to reward those that "show loyalty" by how many hours they clock. I would much rather have an employee that gets their work done, correctly, in 30 hours and puts 100% effort in than an employee that half-asses the same amount of work for 60. Typically the 60 hour a week employee is rewarded over the guy that does the same amount of work in 30. That's a big problem.
I have 2 really good friends that I would call excellent in the terms of understanding employees and getting the job done. Both have the same philosophy, "here's your work, if you can get it done right in 20 hours a week, great, take the other 20 and head to the lake, spend time with your kids, don't care. If you need 60 to get it done, well, do what it takes, don't care".
I can also say that both have long-term employees that kick ass at work and with life.
I listen to that f%$#-head Jamie Dimon and all I see is a classic example of a person that is a thief of other people's lives. Control freak who will force good employees out because he doesn't want them to telework. No telework in an industry where 95% or more of your job is on a computer. He would rather that his employees spend uncompensated hours commuting to a cube farm...all while lying out his ass about how there can't be "team building" with telework. Oh, but we can team build all in separate cubicles? It's a joke and IMO, he is a loser that had a complete and total misunderstanding of the people that work for him when he forced them back into offices.
I also listen to Yvon Chouinard and there's a guy with a complete understanding of his employees. He flat says he doesn't care when his employees work, as long as the job gets done, who cares? Sets up day cares on site and said he had people working with their kids in card board boxes on their desks...who cares? Another employee didn't wear shoes, who cares? One of his lines about what you call someone that plans on surfing next Thursday and having a name for that, they're called losers. There might not be waves next Thursday, you take off work when there's a good surf.
I can tell you who I would be willing to work my ass off for...and who I would just punch the clock for.
