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Here are my tips: https://erkanerol.github.io/post/adapting-a-project/ https://erkanerol.github.io/post/adapting-a-project/ Quote from the blog post: "Last bu

Here are my tips: https://erkanerol.github.io/post/adapting-a-project/ https://erkanerol.github.io/post/adapting-a-project/ Quote from the blog post: "Last but not least. Feel responsible from day one. You are a part of the team and you are responsible for every failure and every success. More or less. If there is a pain in somewhere in your team, feel it in your heart. In companies, there are always some “local people” and “tourists”. Tourists are only interested in “fancy” things. They follow their interests. They hate problematic situations. They don’t take some much responsibility in case of failure. They always blame decision makers since they never try to be one of them. When they get bored, they just fly to yet another city. In reality, there are lots of limitations and we are not living in a perfect world. Unfortunately they are not aware of this fact. Maybe they are just prefering ignoring it. I don’t know. What I want to say be one of the “local people”. Local people know not only good places of the city but also the suburb. Local people think about how to manage the city, how to “survive” in the city, how to make the city more beautiful. They can live with the bad sides of the city. At least for a while :)"

tomtomtom1 6y ago
how can you reconcile that with the fact that job-hopping in 2-5 years is proven to be a more effective way to raise your salary? Being seen as "local" may have its benefits but I doubt that being one is more beneficial.
- erkanerol 6y ago
  That is why I said "At least for a while" at the end. You can take initiative and feel responsible in that 2-5 years.
  - deepaksurti 6y ago
    "your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job." Adams, Scott. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (p. 31).
s1t5 6y ago
> Last but not least. Feel responsible from day one. You are a part of the team and you are responsible for every failure and every success. More or less. If there is a pain in somewhere in your team, feel it in your heart. In a new role it takes a while to start doing actual work let alone impactful work. That's even more true when it's your first job. So I would give the opposite advice - feel responsibility for your work, not for everything that happens within the team/company. And if you ever feel something deep in your heart at work especially if it's someone else's problems, that's a sign that maybe you're taking things way too seriously. The local people people vs tourists dichotomy also seems outright wrong - there are more categories than these two and neither of the two describes a good employee.
hazz99 6y ago
For those looking for more information on the "tourists and locals" concept, search for organisational citizenship. There's a bunch of research of what elicits citizenship behaviours (high commitment, identifying with the company, etc) and what doesn't. Lots of stuff in the HR literature!

tomtomtom1 6y ago

how can you reconcile that with the fact that job-hopping in 2-5 years is proven to be a more effective way to raise your salary? Being seen as "local" may have its benefits but I doubt that being one is more beneficial.

erkanerol 6y ago
That is why I said "At least for a while" at the end. You can take initiative and feel responsible in that 2-5 years.
- deepaksurti 6y ago
  "your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job." Adams, Scott. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (p. 31).

s1t5 6y ago

> Last but not least. Feel responsible from day one. You are a part of the team and you are responsible for every failure and every success. More or less. If there is a pain in somewhere in your team, feel it in your heart. In a new role it takes a while to start doing actual work let alone impactful work. That's even more true when it's your first job. So I would give the opposite advice - feel responsibility for your work, not for everything that happens within the team/company. And if you ever feel something deep in your heart at work especially if it's someone else's problems, that's a sign that maybe you're taking things way too seriously. The local people people vs tourists dichotomy also seems outright wrong - there are more categories than these two and neither of the two describes a good employee.

hazz99 6y ago

For those looking for more information on the "tourists and locals" concept, search for organisational citizenship. There's a bunch of research of what elicits citizenship behaviours (high commitment, identifying with the company, etc) and what doesn't. Lots of stuff in the HR literature!