Guest blog by Aloysius_son I am by no means a professional job consultant, but I can tell you how I have kept my job for the past 30 years. I work in a seasonal profession, light industrial roofing, in the northeastern United States. In thirty years I have collected merely five (5) weeks in unemployment payments. This is how I did it...
Pay attention you young-uns, this will be on the test:
- Show up for work, on time, everyday, no excuses, no BS.
- That is so important it must be repeated... Show up for work, on time, everyday, no excuses, no BS.
- Only take the allotted time for breaks and lunch. Do not squeeze out a few extra minutes each day. *
- Poop at home. Seriously. **
- Stay through the entire scheduled work period. Arrange for personal business to be taken care outside company time. ***
- Come to work sober, and well rested, ready to perform at the best of your ability. ****
- Learn your craft. Study it. Continue to grow in it.
- Treat your employer and supervisors with respect, but don't be a suck-up brown noser.
- Invest in yourself. Get the things you need to perform your job properly.
- Work safely and efficiently and consider the many small ways you, yourself can improve your company's profits.
I could go on, but I think if you just tried to remember these 10 things you will find yourself and the company you work for, to be better able to weather the economic storm that lies ahead.
* Yes, we all do it occasionally, but it is a bad habit to get into.
** Ok, there are times when we have no choice... but every day??? Many, coworkers, supervisors and employers find it irritating to have a member of the team disappears for twenty minute when there is a lot of work to be done.
*** Schedual appointments for days off, or anticipated slow downs, not during the busiest production times. Occasionally situations arrise which are unavoidable. These should not become habitual.
**** Remember the old adage; Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise? It's true.
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Comments (5)
I'm not worried at all. I'm going into a field that isn't affected by the economy whatsoever.
The tips you're offering is sheer common sense. Everyone knows that you should be respectful, punctual, professional, etc etc. I think anyone who's a working person has already grasped these concepts.
@strappleberry_xD@xanga - the crazy thing is though, there are many people who don't have the common sense to even follow those simple steps
@strappleberry_xD@xanga - If everybody I knew were doing these common sense things I wouldn't have had the mind to write this!
Will remember :)
I was able to check off everything on your list. Yay! A job is a job and a job is VERY important in today's economy. So don't mess up wether it's small or big. I keep telling my spouse to stop complaining about his job because our state ranks #5 in unemployment. I don't think I can even say, "Be quiet unless you want to start flipping burgers..." Finding employment is competitive. I know that I don't take my job for granted because it's paying my bills. Who knows when the world will stop spinning. Now that's another story. =)