You are a responsible person - someone you can rely on, who will do everything that is expected of him and more. Congratulations! There is still some work to do here.
Yeah, that's the catch. You do a great job and people around you celebrate it, and endless opportunities open up before you to prove how good you are over and over again. And so you take on a little more tasks, and a little more, and one more. And the balance in life is lost, at the same time as you are covered with all this heap of opportunities and challenges with all their expected results, deadlines, and endless meetings on the current status with project managers.
No good deed will go unpunished
If you have changed jobs several times, this circle is no doubt familiar to you. You leave your previous job with a sense of relief, all your projects are turned over to colleagues in a ceremony known as "handover". Somewhere inside, you even laugh a little at your colleagues and the manager, who never really understood what it cost you to cope with all this, and they look at you with glassy eyes at the moment when you inform them of your departure.
You enter a new job with incredible lightness in your heart. No projects. No deadlines. No regular meetings. You get a mild sense of anxiety getting to know a new company, sorting out your role, studying local order, of course, this also has some challenge. But compared to the crushing mass of dump trucks constantly leaving more and more loads on your desktop, a little worry is nothing.
After a week of "Zoom Lunches " with your new colleagues, you see where you can join and participate in an effort to demonstrate your value to the team. Subtle smiles of relief appear on the faces of your new colleagues, they gladly let you do both and see what you can do to ease their burden.
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Inevitably, some things won't get done. Someone might be upset about this. But again, that's okay. It is not your concern to make everyone around you happy. Your challenge is to use your unique skills as efficiently as possible for the greatest possible benefit.
From the translator: this is a translation of a post from the Ethan Banks blog, co-host of the popular podcast about Packet Pushers technologies, when it got into my feed, it immediately hooked, as if cleaning the bookshelf, unexpectedly found an old postcard between the books, received a long time ago from your good friend, with simple but so valuable advice that you needed so badly right now.