Your Job Is Not Your Career
Stop giving 100% to your employer
The silent killer of career growth is you become so good at working in your job that you have zero capacity left to work on your career.
You spend forty hours a week keeping the lights on. You solve the immediate crisis. You answer the urgent questions. You clear the queue. By Friday afternoon, you are exhausted. You have burned all your fuel maintaining the present, so you have nothing left to build your future.
Your company loves when you work in your job. It solves their problem today. But it creates a problem for you tomorrow.
People think “working on your career” means adding more hours. They think it means doing more when their days are already so full. They think it means adding to their exhaustion.
It does not.
It means taking the work you are already doing and upgrading the altitude.
Working in the job is quietly shipping the feature. Working on your career is publishing the impact analysis that proves exactly how much money that feature saved the company.
One is just labor, the ot…
