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Okay UFies, I need your help/input here. | by oedlan | 2010-05-12 12:32:32 |
| IMO, your description of both job situations |
by twixt |
2010-05-12 16:19:05 |
indicates you could be happy in either environment.
What matters then is the thing that most people do not consider when making a job decision - but which *I* consider to be the dealmaker/dealbreaker.
**** How does that company handle failure? *****
Most companies/people/managers handle failure with a win-lose blame/excuse methodology. And as IT teaches everyone, that is a mindspace that produces suffering, angst and burnout.
There are two old sayings that I think appropriate:
1. You don't know your relatives until you have shared an inheritance with them.
2. You don't know your potential partner until you have shared enough dealbreaker arguments with them so you know how they argue, why they argue, and what to expect as the result of an argument.
Both the above reflect on people's behaviour in situations where disappointment is in play. And really, this behaviour is the behaviour that defines whether a relationship (and a job is just another kind of relationship) is something that will survive and prosper over the long term or whether the resentments will build and build until they become unendurable - and the relationship fractures.
There are too many companies that try to paper-over-the-cracks in their handling of failure with larger amounts of money. This doesn't work in the long term either. All that happens is that the magnitude of the explosion that finally comes when *no amount* of money is worth the trouble - causes massive heartache on both sides.
Nothing takes the place of intelligent planning, dedicated execution or attention to detail. And no job situation is workable over the long term without these attributes. They are the things that make a job worthwhile, make the tough jobs survivable, make the less-than-desirable-feedback tolerable. Because all these things produce *solutions that work*. The money is a survival-tool to keep body-and-soul together - and as a reward for putting up with the tough stuff. But like any other relationship - there has to be more than 50% of the time that the relationship is fulfilling - or there is no point.
If you are single, the most important relationship (other than the one with yourself) that you have the ability to modify is your job relationship. Why train yourself to consider your job as an imposition, a strain, or a burden? Choose life. :-)
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