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I have been getting better as I get older. But I also worry about letting people down. In my industry (the legal field) you just can't take a chance you'll let

I have been getting better as I get older. But I also worry about letting people down. In my industry (the legal field) you just can't take a chance you'll let somebody down. I don't want to be that guy. There's too much riding on the work. So I do the drudge work. I know I can get it done. It some ways it makes me feel better because I don't have to worry about getting over the hump. One of my options is simply increasing the amount of money I get paid for doing something I know I can do. Then do my own thing on my own time. I call it drudge work, but in reality its something that requires a set of specialized knowledge or special education, but has to to be repeated over and over again (hence the drudge part). Maybe I need to come up with ideas of thing I can learn that people will pay me very well for because they need to be done over and over again and nobody likes doing them, but are hard enough to require specialized knowledge.

nostrademons 18y ago
How about letting people know, honestly, what your strengths and weaknesses are and then letting prospective employers make the choice about whether they want to take the risk of hiring you? Basically every time I've grown as a person has been because I took the risk of letting people down, and then felt I couldn't let them down and so completed the task. If you never put yourself in that position, how're you going to grow? You'd be surprised how many people are willing to take that risk, because oftentimes it does pan out, and they get a pretty substantial return on their investment.
- tstegart 18y ago
  I would take more chances if I wasn't in the legal field. I did take more chances before. But saying "your app won't be done on schedule" isn't the same as saying "you're going to jail because we didn't file your appeal on time." An even bigger question is if it worked for you. Goes getting over the hump turn the job into something fulfilling and enjoyable, or does it just make it easier to get over the next hump.

nostrademons 18y ago

How about letting people know, honestly, what your strengths and weaknesses are and then letting prospective employers make the choice about whether they want to take the risk of hiring you? Basically every time I've grown as a person has been because I took the risk of letting people down, and then felt I couldn't let them down and so completed the task. If you never put yourself in that position, how're you going to grow? You'd be surprised how many people are willing to take that risk, because oftentimes it does pan out, and they get a pretty substantial return on their investment.

tstegart 18y ago
I would take more chances if I wasn't in the legal field. I did take more chances before. But saying "your app won't be done on schedule" isn't the same as saying "you're going to jail because we didn't file your appeal on time." An even bigger question is if it worked for you. Goes getting over the hump turn the job into something fulfilling and enjoyable, or does it just make it easier to get over the next hump.