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This is generally good advice, but is a recipe to get extra work owning the implementation of the proposal.
by datadrivenangel 2y ago
This is generally good advice, but is a recipe to get extra work owning the implementation of the proposal.
- titanomachy 2y agoOr maybe you get to work on this important new thing, instead of whatever dumb thing you were going to be stuck doing.
- warner25 2y agoYeah, I've used this to my advantage: Sell my boss on the idea that we had a real problem and I could address it instead of doing some other lower-value tasks; essentially re-shaping my own role into something that I found much more fulfilling and resume-enhancing than whatever I'd be doing otherwise.
- ska 2y agoEspecially in large organizations, you'll typically end up with more interesting/rewarding work if you help define it, than if you wait until something is handed to you.
- feurio 2y agoCan confirm. Made a bit of a leftfield suggestion for an issue that there were no truly good solutions proposed for. I was tasked with building and deploying it. It's in production and working well so far (service which is 90% of our egress bandwidth). Got some really nice feedback from the director of technology at the Christmas social event. I can't imagine that it's hurt my job security, and it's been far more interesting than waiting for someone to find me busywork to do.
- tonymet 2y agothat's the goal