You spend 70 of the 168 hours in a week working, getting ready for work, getting to work, or thinking about work after work, sometimes more. If you spend 64 hours sleeping you are left with 34 hours for eating and personal time. A person literally is what they do, and this is not new, last names came from a persons career at one point.
Note to all Managers: For the most part if you provide your employees with a sense of ownership you can expect they will try harder to do a better job. Don't hover, let them fail and learn in the beginning of their jobs, they won't do it again. DON'T Micro manage! Trust your employees or don't hire them. This is not just my opinion through experience but something that I have been taught in college as well as in articles I have read. Bob Brennan, president and CEO of Iron Mountain was interviewed in a piece in the Tribune about leadership. "I ask this question a lot in different situations: What do you recommend we do? You can get a real sense of who's invested in moving the company forward, and who's watching the company go by... You can try to get out of the system (of defensiveness) so people focus on achieving, learning and bonding."
So to learning here is my new resume that I have taken from my crappy jobs:
Curly Kate McGee
Somewhere in Chicago-land, IL - curlykatemcgee@gmail.com
Objective: To have a job where I am allowed to meet expectations and not be micro managed. To be able to do my job without constant interruptions. To be given ownership for my projects & actions.
Education: Life and Universities
The instructor:
I learned to keep up energy because children and adults need someone who wants to be followed to teach them. I was responsible for managing my own classes and bringing my students to a level where they can move to the next class successfully.
The bartender:
Dude, you can keep your quarter, and by the way you are an ass!
I loved this job! This was great and I had to deal with major asses (both as co-workers and customers), the ones who wanted you to jump up and down for them if you were busy or not. For the better part it was fun!
The customer service job (plural, in retail, front desk, offices, etc.):
These are split across the board for me, there was the time that I worked for a major Bitch, she wanted me to handle her kids calls, I told her no and she told me that she would write me up. I never went back. There was the time that I was told that I was responsible for financing and admin work, um... that only kind of works, until I was asked to do personal errands, that won't work for me.
I loved working at one of my jobs I was left to my self with an enormous amount of trust put in me. My favorite job! The best ones are good to remember because they give you standards!
Special Skills:
Telepathy, Ignoring, blank staring for hours, The internet specifically googling for others that are too retarded to do it themselves, playing on my phone when I pretend to be listening, BS (Oh yeah I can tell you exactly what you want, not in a lie but spun in a great way, to get what I want this makes me great in sales jobs), Honesty (I will show you with either my face or words exactly what I think about you), I can use a computer and most computer software when provided training if i don't know it.
I guess the point is, you live and you learn and you might stumble upon something you like one day. Until then I will build my 'resume' :)
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