Paying dues is so old school

Paying dues is so old school One of the most important career moves of the new millennium is getting out of paying dues. Paying ones due is an antiquated idea in a workplace where few people aspire to climb the same corporate ladder for 45 years. Eve Tahmincioglu interviewed 55 leaders for her book, From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons Learned on the Journey to the Top. She found that one of the most common refrains during her interviews was the importance of paying ones dues. People in leadership positions today think that is important. However, Tahmincioglu reminds us that what you get from paying your dues is top-of-the-ladder positions that force you to give up almost all your time with your family. In ruminating about what she found from talking with CEOs, Tahmincioglu said, ??This is a ridiculous job. If youre going to get to the top, you need to make sacrifices. You need a spouse at home and you should expect not to spend a lot of time with your children. Tahmincioglu echoes what most people today feel about the job of a CEO: Ridiculous. The 80-hour-plus work week is nothing to aim for, and once you decide that youre not going to climb that ladder, why pay dues? The dues are what you pay when youre at the bottom in order to get a proverbial ticket to try climbing to the top. Todays climb looks different. For one thing, people want personal growth and workplace flexibility two things not typically valued by people who are hell-bent on seeing people pay dues. The other difference about todays climb is being able to skip the bottom rung. So the climb looks more like a hop to a spot where you can enjoy yourself without having to worry about the next rung. Laura Vanderkam has a word for this: grindhopping. In her book, Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career Without Paying Your Dues, Vanderkam offers a smorgasbord of career choices and essential skills that will get you out of paying dues while still providing opportunities for challenging and rewarding work. Her basic idea is for people to take personal responsibility for their goals and career development instead of relying on someone else. She advises people to create benchmarks for themselves and get used to the fact that if they are not climbing a ladder, there is no single clear path. You need to ??Get comfortable with being uncomfortable, she advises. Vanderkam suggests people think ??in terms of projects, and not jobs and then perform like a star so they get more of them. But there are other ways to get past dues-paying as well: People can start their own companies, or skip the heavy dues-paying industries and go into an area that is not as cutthroat. Raedia Sikkema did just that. She has a degree from the film and television program at New York University with a specialty in animation. Most classmates went to work on feature films for studios such as Sony and Pixar. But she worked on education projects for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. ??I used to think that working anywhere else [but a big studio] would be sad and not that important. But years down the line, sure youre working on a feature film, but all youve done is a characters arm. Today Sikkema does financial graphics at Lineplot Productions. She works from home, sets her own hours, and controls a project from start to finish rather than working on only one small piece as she pays her dues. For Sikkema, making the tough choice to not follow her industrys dues-paying track has paid off: ??I feel my work is more creatively fulfilling because I got to do more, even though it was not in a glamorous position. The trick to all of this, of course, is being able to market yourself to the people who can give you the work you want. ??Position yourself in a way that is true to you, not just as a fit into someone elses mold, says Jennifer Kushell, whose company Your Success Network helps young people market themselves professionally. ??You need to know whats special about you and what makes you different, she says. Like many things in life, whats good about not paying your dues is also whats bad: You get to do work that is true to you, but you have to figure out what that work is to ensure you are good enough at it to get work. So yes, thats tough stuff, but many will say that its much less tough than paying your dues. And really, why do it if you dont have to?

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How To Handle Being Insulted Online - Kathy Caprino

How To Handle Being Insulted Online Today, I woke up and took a look at my emails on my phone, only to see that I’d been insulted on LinkedIn.  The insult came as a response to a comment I made while sharing a post from my friend William Arruda on 7 Parenting Traits that Help Children Succeed At Work. The parenting trait that I indicated was my favorite in the list was humility. I won’t dignify the insult I got by repeating it verbatim, but basically, the commentator smacked me down with a few sentences on how I don’t display any humility, so how can I say I like it?  And if I do “like” humility, what do I think it means? (insinuating that I must not understand the definition of it because I’m totally without it). And hell be happy to educate me on how I have no humility. From the moment I read this insult, my morning was darkened.   I noticed I started to breathe more shallowly, and my head and heart starting churning with hurt. I agonized over what to do in response. Should I leave it? Should I respond? And if so, what exactly should I say? As one who discusses every day the need for women to speak up more publicly and assertively, I felt that saying nothing was the weak way out. For me, not responding felt equivalent to not being the person I wanted to be. But as I got thinking more about speaking up to this critic, I began having some post-traumatic stress around being hurt and smacked down earlier in my life, after speaking up or “showing up” in a bigger way earlier. Suddenly, I had a flashback of a series of scary, nighttime obscene phone calls I received as a teen girl after being a lead in a school musical, which made me afraid to go to school. Then, I had a flashback of a very frightening time as a therapy intern years ago, when I asserted myself powerfully to one of my rageful, out-of-control male clients who had a violent past. His response made me feel that he might possibly harm or attack me (as we were alone in the office at that time in the evening). I was terribly afraid as my hand hovered over the red HELP button that, when pushed, would summon the police in a few instants. All this to say that if I’m having these feelings and flashbacks after being insulted digitally and I’m very used to having my work critiqued in the public eye I’m guessing that many of you who are reading this can relate deeply to how awful it feels to be insulted online. Especially when the attack is personal and rips at your core personality and the way you engage with the world. I’d love to share some info that might be helpful to you (and to me), going forward, in how to deal with being insulted publicly. Here’s my take: First, we need to get hip to what to expect I put out a lot of content every week, and some of it is certainly controversial, so I’ve had to steel myself to accept that what I share will inflame some folks. In fact, I’ve come to see that that if I’m not getting people hot beneath the collar and agitated, I’m probably not saying much that’s different, important or helpful. So lesson #1 for me has been that if I want to share my personal take on issues, especially deep and controversial ones, I simply have to be prepared for people to offer their own personal take that may be very different, and very emotionally charged. And I also have to accept that I’ll be criticized, and perhaps not in a respectful way. That’s just the price we pay for speaking out and up about complex, important issues that have no easy answer. Secondly, we have to realize that there are some people lurking out there who are true haters Most of us are not haters. Most are kind, compassionate, and caring and have some empathy for other people, even strangers. And most of us don’t want to tear people down because we disagree with them.   Nor do we want to rip apart a stranger â€" we’re just not triggered in that way, usually. But the anonymity of the internet has made us more cruel. We would be too naive if we didn’t understand that there are indeed haters in the world who are lurking online, wounded, waiting to pounce. They feel the need to rip someone down so they can feel better about themselves. Of course, that never works, but they’ll keep trying anyway. I realize that this person who insulted me must have been reading my posts or watching my videos and something today triggered him to want to insult me. I call these people “pouncers people who don’t have the courage and fortitude to engage openly, respectfully, and articulately, but just want to pounce and insult. For these folks, I’ve decided I won’t waste my time responding. In fact, for haters who can’t engage in respectful ways, I’ll block them from my sites and profiles, and I’ll feel good about doing it. In other words, we don’t have to catch every ball that’s thrown at us. Thirdly, if you want to show up â€" with your heart, soul and spirit fully engaged â€" and make a vivid, powerful and courageous mark on this world, you’ll have to learn how to handle critics. As Brené Brown shares so beautifully in her talk “Why Your Critics Aren’t The Ones Who Count,” Theodore Roosevelt offered advice that changed her life, and it’s shifted mine as well. Here’s what Roosevelt shared, so wisely and powerfully: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” So the final lesson about how to deal with being insulted online is this: Understand that you don’t have to concern yourself (or give a second thought to) the hurtful critics who aren’t courageous enough to get in the arena themselves.   You don’t have to take in their insults, or process them, or do anything at all with their hateful remarks, but eject them out of your sphere, for good. In fact, the more you stew and fester about an online insult that was given solely as a way to hurt you, the more you open the door to being suppressed and diminished. Sure, take in true, constructive feedback from folks who want to help and encourage you to grow and learn. But under no circumstances should we allow (or wallow) in cruel, personal insults that are all about the critics hate, and nothing to do with our own efforts to show up, be heard and make a difference. So, I hope youll stay your course as I will mine â€" continue to be active in the arena, and share your messages, and your heart, soul and spirit openly with the world. Haters be damned. For more from Kathy, visit her personal growth programs here, and her TEDx talk Time To Brave Up.

3 Million Jobs Available

3 Million Jobs Available There are 13 million people unemployed and employers have 3 million vacancies they cant fillwhats wrong with this picture? Ive found a new favorite blog, Careerealism, by JT ODonnell.   Please go visit.   The advice and information I have seen there so far is wonderful. She is  by no means new at this, just new to me. In her recent post, she cites a great Business Week article, Help Wanted:   Why thats A Bad sign.   It looks at the gaps that exists between the job seekers and the employers.   Careerealisms digest of this article is simpler to read.   She points out: Two things will need to occur: 1) Job seekers are going to need to take lesser-paying jobs as part of a ‘course correction’ for their career paths that will eventually lead to better pay and longer-term employability. 2) Companies are going to need to expand and improve their on-the-job training and succession planning so they can hire talent which are a 50% fit and develop them instead holding out for the 90% fit that will never knock on their door. This isnt something either want to hear. Yet, it is most likely going to happen. So bite the bullet, guys and gals, and start today by making the changes necessary to transition.   Not sure where to start? Self assessment!   Then go off and do your research.   Find careers or occupations or industries that have the potential to excite you. Anything healthcare related or green.   You dont need to be providing direct care, but somewhere supporting it.   Green jobs are emerging, and most likely will continue for awhile.   There is even a website for greenjobs.

The Best Ways to Handle Your Career Switch

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