Job vs. Work

2 Responses to “Job vs. Work”

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• Clint

  March 31, 2009 at 9:10 pm

  Amen to that…
• Maxim Porges

  April 5, 2009 at 6:08 pm

  One of the most important things anybody can learn in their professional careers is when to say “no” to meetings. It took me a while to figure out that refusing to meet with people on their schedule was perfectly acceptable and not a workplace taboo after I shifted roles from “primarily programmer” to “primarily manager of programmers” an my meeting commitments increased. Hard to tell if this is your particular dilemma due to the bluriness, but seemed the most likely candidate.

  Regardless of what ails your schedule, an effective way to combat “non-working work” syndrome is to schedule yourself blocks of time to actually do what it is you are paid for, and treat these appointments with equal importance to whatever else it is that is consuming your time.

  - max