Your Sorting Hat: Power of One, unconventional results and multiple incomes
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 21, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Don't underestimate the power of making a single change at work or in your life.
One change sets up a chain reaction in a system.
Wake up early and go for a daily walk. Your sleep time, diet and social life will pivot."
II.
"Every employer wants to reduce hiring risk.
Hence a trusted person or an insider is preferred to an outsider.
Your chances improve if you have worked with or have been referred by an insider."
III.
"The larger the company, the lower is your initial impact.
Have a longer time horizon for projects and temper your expectations.
Vice versa in a small startup. Be prepared to show and demand value immediately."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Howard Marks, investor and writer, shares universal advice on investing (and life) in his book - The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor -
"If your behavior is conventional, you’re likely to get conventional results—either good or bad. Only if your behavior is unconventional is your performance likely to be unconventional, and only if your judgments are superior is your performance likely to be above average."
Source: Book: The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
II.
Richard Bolles, author, speaks about achievement in his best selling job hunting book - What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success -
"I like the late Bernard Haldane's definition of an achievement. He says it is: something you yourself feel you have done well, that you also enjoyed doing and felt proud of. In other words you are looking for an accomplishment that gave you two pleasures: enjoyment while doing it, and satisfaction from the outcome. That doesn't mean you may not have sweated as you did it, or hated some parts of the process, but it does mean that basically you enjoyed most of the process. The pleasure was not simply in the outcome, but along the way as well."
Source: Book: What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles
1 Question
How many sources of income do you have today? How many income sources do you plan to have in 2 years time?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times