Haven't got the spend

Leave as is

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Ye by Burna Boy

Wookie - scrappy

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Memories by Kamikaze

Seek to reach out for some sort of radical solution on the basis of which the real problem is obscured.

"You’re not easy-going, but you’re passionate, and that’s good. And when you get upset about the little things, I think that I’m pretty good about making you feel better about that. And that’s good too. So, they can say that you’re high maintenance, but it’s okay, because I like…maintaining you."

WFH may be comfortable for fifty-somethings who know their work like the back of their hands - but they learnt their trade somewhere. That somewhere was probably an office, watching the generation above, emulating the best bits. Due to the marvels of broadband, we have young adult children working on video calls all over our locked-down house, but the drawbacks are clear. There is no one from whom to learn the basics, or to answer the simple questions that too unimportant to commit to an e-mail, but which are a vital part of learning the ropes. This lack of face-to-face contact turns the learning curve into a steep uphill slope.

Here is something that I think is becoming more and more true the longer I spend working.


There is ”work” and there is your “career”. The latter is probably more important than the former.


Your career comprises things like the technical skills you need to build up to have longevity in this sector, soft skills you will need to build to move up the ladder and so on. Things that have value to you regardless of who is paying your pay check.


Then there is “work”, which is the things your employer is paying you to do. Maybe they want you to type “int vlan” a hundred times a day, or do things sub optimally, maybe they want you to make their stack optimal.


When there is little overlap between work and your career, then work becomes a burden. Then you have people complaining about a lack of work/life balance. If there’s good intersection between the two, then people tend to be happier.


There are also boundaries you need to set with your employer. It is true that one person not being able to set boundaries, or that one person who answers their phone all the time because they have nothing better to do, can wind up causing an expectation that all others in the team need to do the same. A reasonable employer will understand that not all people are the same. The 20 something with no family has different demands on their time vs the 30 something with a partner and young kids. The 50 something with grown up kids may look at work differently to the previous two examples. I enjoy my work, but I set firm boundaries with my employer.


There will never be enough time, but if you wind up doing things of no value for your career in the time you have, then that is on you.

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