A New Way to Look at Your Career
You can pick up any business or news magazine at any time and read articles about the rapid pace of change, the increasing speed at which everything moves, the globalization of industry and commerce, and how technology is changing our world.
Of course all of these things are true. Further reading will lead us to articles about the “new world of work” and how our working lives are changing; that we are changing jobs more frequently, are expected to multi-task, taking less time off and being completely connected all of the time. All of these facts can lull us into a belief that there is nothing we can learn from workers of the past – that the world is so different that history doesn’t hold valuable lessons for us.
This I don’t believe to be true.
It is time for us to consider our careers, our productivity, our success and our satisfaction in a new – a new but decidedly old – way.
I encourage you to think of yourself as a craftsman.
A craftsman (for my purposes please consider this to be a gender neutral word) is a person who as always been seen as one who exhibited high levels of skill, and whose output was of exceedingly high quality. As you read this word you are probably thinking of certain types of jobs or even of particular people.
Regardless of your initial thoughts, there are some characteristics of craftsman that we can all learn from and aspire to, even if we think our work is very different from the work of the past. Read more
Of course all of these things are true. Further reading will lead us to articles about the “new world of work” and how our working lives are changing; that we are changing jobs more frequently, are expected to multi-task, taking less time off and being completely connected all of the time. All of these facts can lull us into a belief that there is nothing we can learn from workers of the past – that the world is so different that history doesn’t hold valuable lessons for us.
This I don’t believe to be true.
It is time for us to consider our careers, our productivity, our success and our satisfaction in a new – a new but decidedly old – way.
I encourage you to think of yourself as a craftsman.
A craftsman (for my purposes please consider this to be a gender neutral word) is a person who as always been seen as one who exhibited high levels of skill, and whose output was of exceedingly high quality. As you read this word you are probably thinking of certain types of jobs or even of particular people.
Regardless of your initial thoughts, there are some characteristics of craftsman that we can all learn from and aspire to, even if we think our work is very different from the work of the past. Read more
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