[Anacardo]

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You make your own opportunities.

1. Get job
2. Do it better than all the retards
3. Opportunities present themselves

Whenever I find an employee who stands out I make it my mission to do everything I can for them. Many other people operate the same way.

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It's pretty common for people to largely build their businesses on treating people as expenses, not assets, and just using them up till they burn out, are driven to quit, or find a better opportunity. It would be nice if hard work paying off was something one could expect from low level jobs, but it's not. You're basically completely disposable and might as well be a stapler or a pair of scissors. You're "below the line," and that includes the line of consciousness.


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Yes this is exactly the trend, not just with small businesses but with departments in larger corporations as well. The 21st century American expectation seems to be that they will push you as hard as possible into paths that can be bad for your career, until you push back. Pushing back consists of flat-out refusing to do menial work. Or refusing to support old projects when you are trying to move on to new ones. Demanding that your boss pay for schooling or productivity tools. Those kinds of things. You have to mind your own career, because nobody is minding it for you. That's 21st century America.

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This sounds really harsh and lame. I just read that sentence back. Yeah, it's totally killing my buzz.