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I don’t know, isn’t “Quiet Quitting” counterintuitive? Isn’t doing the bare minimum harmful to you getting a new job, let alone going out on your own? Before I

by ArcMex 4y ago

I don’t know, isn’t “Quiet Quitting” counterintuitive? Isn’t doing the bare minimum harmful to you getting a new job, let alone going out on your own? Before I founded my own business, I gave my last day job everything I had. It just never worked out. But those lessons carried me forward in my own venture. I don’t know if “just getting by” could have made me keenly aware of the opportunities that came by doing my best as much as possible. I could be wrong though and would love to hear from others proving just that.

sys_64738 4y ago
Burn out is one reason to never give your all. Often you can do enough and the extra effort doesn’t provide extra utility. This goes back to the bogus educational demand that you should always work hard and do your best at school. I never bought into this and applied the metric of just doing enough to attain the goal, grade, or what have you. Doing more has much less RoI. Teachers don’t like this attitude but it’s what makes for entrepreneurs a success.
piaste 4y ago
The answer varies wildly with your role. In some roles, effort put toward your job description aligns neatly with improving your personal career path. E.g. as a salesman, you want to get a lot of contacts and develop a good reputation. It's what the company wants from you, but it's also going to be a great personal asset for when you move on. In others, they're entirely unrelated. E.g. you got hired as a code monkey and the company just wants you to crank out CRUD forms as fast as possible, it doesn't need another senior developer or architect.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
I think a lot of this is just depression from the social isolation of the Covid years. I have a hunch a lot of people didn't fare too well from this. Not finding any joy or meaning in what you do and sort of just going through the motions while ruminating about how hopeless and pointless everything is, that's fairly textbook stuff.

by ArcMex 4y ago

sys_64738 4y ago

Burn out is one reason to never give your all. Often you can do enough and the extra effort doesn’t provide extra utility. This goes back to the bogus educational demand that you should always work hard and do your best at school. I never bought into this and applied the metric of just doing enough to attain the goal, grade, or what have you. Doing more has much less RoI. Teachers don’t like this attitude but it’s what makes for entrepreneurs a success.

piaste 4y ago

The answer varies wildly with your role. In some roles, effort put toward your job description aligns neatly with improving your personal career path. E.g. as a salesman, you want to get a lot of contacts and develop a good reputation. It's what the company wants from you, but it's also going to be a great personal asset for when you move on. In others, they're entirely unrelated. E.g. you got hired as a code monkey and the company just wants you to crank out CRUD forms as fast as possible, it doesn't need another senior developer or architect.

marginalia_nu 4y ago

I think a lot of this is just depression from the social isolation of the Covid years. I have a hunch a lot of people didn't fare too well from this. Not finding any joy or meaning in what you do and sort of just going through the motions while ruminating about how hopeless and pointless everything is, that's fairly textbook stuff.