Whether you are doing government job or private! | Remember these 15 things
1. Be loyal to yourself and believe in your work. Don’t be loyal to your boss. Hanging around your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and your boss will finally dump you.
2. Go home. Don’t stick at work beyond office hours. You are not the pillar of your department. If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.
3. Don’t chase promotion. Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that’s fine. If they don’t, it is their loss.
4. Avoid office gossip. Avoid politics. Don’t join the bandwagon that backbites your boss. Don’t celebrate when a colleague is punished or fired. Stay away from negative gatherings.
5. Don’t compete with your boss, you will burn your fingers. Don’t compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain.
6. Don’t have love affairs with your colleagues, you will collide with your boss or lose productivity. Your romance will end badly and bitterly.
7. Start a side business. Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run. Use your office networks to build your side business. Keep your business private.
8. Save your money or invest. Let the stock, mutual fund deduct automatically from your payslip.
9. Borrow a loan to invest in a business, not buy a car or build a house. Build your house with the profit you get from your investments.
10. Expand your skills portfolio. When you go back to school, go horizontal, not vertical. E.g if you are a civil engineer don’t go for civil engineering, go for project management or public policy.
11. Rent a house. Don’t live in a Government house. This comfort is dangerous. A Government house is not your house.
12. Join the office welfare and be an active member. It will help you a lot. Join your trade union. They will protect you. Join your professional society. Networks are vital.
13. Keep your life, marriage and family private. Let them stay away from your office. Keep your payslip away from your wife. This is important.
14. Stay quiet in the office Whatsapp group. Talk when asked a question or a comment. No matter how heated the arguments are in the office Whatsapp, just keep off.
15. Retire early. The best time to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today. Exit early. – By 40 -45 Years, be out.