[HN Gopher] My Personal Creed of Employment
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My Personal Creed of Employment
Author : Buttons840
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-05-29 22:22 UTC (37 minutes ago)
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| codingdave wrote:
| > Cultivate a professional mindset. You are above the company,
| descending to help them. Do the work required, do honest work,
| help them achieve their goals, but don't become mentally trapped.
|
| This is the most important one to me - I do my job for exactly
| that reason - it is a job. A business transaction where I get a
| specific amount of money in exchange for putting time and energy
| towards their goals. It is amazing how much you can accomplish
| while not letting the BS get to you once you take the attitude of
| your work being a daily business transaction.
| hprotagonist wrote:
| Here's mine:
|
| _I, <name>, in the presence of these my betters and my equals in
| my Calling, bind myself upon my Honor and Cold Iron, that, of the
| best of my knowledge and power, I will not henceforward suffer or
| pass, or be privy to the passing of, Bad Workmanship or Faulty
| Material in aught that concerns my works before mankind as an
| Engineer, or in my dealing with my own Soul before my Maker.
|
| MY TIME I will not refuse; my Thought I will not grudge; my Care
| I will not deny towards the honour, use, stability and perfection
| of any works to which I may be called to set my hand.
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| MY FAIR WAGES for that work I will openly take. My Reputation in
| my Calling I will honourably guard; but I will in no way go about
| to compass or wrest judgement or gratifiction from any one with
| whom I may deal. And further, I will early and warily strive my
| uttermost against professional jealousy and the belittling of my
| working-colleagues in any field of their labour.
|
| FOR MY ASSURED FAILURES and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand
| of my betters and my equals in my Calling here assembled; praying
| that in the hour of my temptations, weakness and weariness, the
| memory of this my Obligation and of the company before whom it
| was entered into, may return to me to aid, comfort, and
| restrain._
| pettycashstash2 wrote:
| Wow. This resonates with me. Very much appreciated. You've
| captured something here I could not put into words on my own.
| Thank you
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