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What is the best piece of work or career advice you’ve ever received?

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    #32
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,832 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Work to live, never live to work.

    do the job you were hired to do, nothing else, favors turn into full time responsibility and additional work quickly. That favor will be slow to be paid back...if ever.

    every graveyard in the country is stacked full deep and high full of ‘hard workers’. If you are hired as a painter and decorator do your job, that job efficiently, effectively and well.. as efficiently and as well as you can with the resources they give you.... if the van you have been provided with breaks down... no matter what time you get to the job... you finish on time... don’t sacrifice your wellbeing, personal, health and family wellbeing because your employer can’t deliver their end of an agreement..



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    #33
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    I suppose "don't let the companies problems become your problems" is one that I have seen more and more as I go through my working life.

    Some companies and managers are very good at putting the guilt on employees to get certain things done, getting extra work out of people, working weekends and doing two jobs at once etc. Usually it's good employees who suffer in these situations.



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    #34
    YellowFeather
    Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Nobody is irreplaceable is my one.

    I've done the crazy hours, and certainly I got thanks for it, and enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t do it again. It’s not worth it when you realise that you’ve plowed years into your job at the expense of your own real life because you think everything will break down if you don’t. It won’t!!

    Also related is - learn to delegate! Probably one of the things I found most difficult to do.



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    #35
    inconnu
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭inconnu


    Learn to say no!



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    #36
    Patsy167
    Registered Users Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    If you show up and do your job you are ahead of half of your competition



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    #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    "if you were hit by a bus tomorrow someone would be in your job next month"



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    #38
    Patsy167
    Registered Users Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    Be 50% a good worker and 50% a good coworker



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    #39
    inconnu
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭inconnu


    Nobody is indispensable. No matter who they are, they can be replaced. So don't try to make yourself indispensable by taking on extra work.



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    #40
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Keep your mouth shut. Your colleagues aren't your friends. Don't make enemies if you can avoid it. All obvious stuff.

    In a corporate setting, social weight counts for more than skill/ hard work so either be charming or be quiet and inoffensive.

    Live below your means if you can, to reduce your dependence on employers.

    If you're negotiating pay or something else, you need to start a soft auction i.e. "This other company has just offered me €5,000 more". The other company could be imaginary. I'm not telling you to lie though - it's better to line up real offers and play them one against another.



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    #41
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    If you don't ask you don't get.


    Applies to promotions, rises, perks, nicer roles.....


    Obviously to be used sensibly



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    #42
    jackboy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,474 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Be on time

    Take your time

    Leave on time



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    #43
    Viscount Aggro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    Remember, your colleagues are not your friends.



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    #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't go into catering.

    From my father a chef



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    #45
    Flinty997
    Registered Users Posts: 11,622 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Brevity and Clarity in all things.



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    #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Treat your employees well and most of the time, things will take care of themselves. Be a leader and empower your employees to make decisions rather than having to run to you every time. A lot of people thrive when given responsibility.



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    #47
    BhoyRayzor
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭BhoyRayzor


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117876279#Comment_117876279

    And if that person was driving the bus it probably wasn't an accident!



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    #48
    alias no.9
    Registered Users Posts: 6,266 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    If you have to have a difficult conversation with a peer or subordinate, don't sit between them and the door



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    #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Best pieces of advice I got were:

    1) Be an average worker, do what's needed and nothing more. Its impossible for work to fire you.

    2) Work life balance is more important than money. In the door at 9AM and out by 5PM. If you can't get this move job.



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    #50
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058208082/what-is-the-best-piece-of-work-or-career-advice-you-ve-ever-received

    Don’t work



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    #51
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Not necessarily work related but:

    "If you want to get smarter, don't be the smartest in the room"



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    #52
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,506 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    your just a mean to an end . just a number. they dont care about you any more than they have to . once you stop making them money they will drop you.

    everyone is replacable and you will be replaced sooner or later.



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    #53
    kathleen37
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭kathleen37


    Everyone lies.



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    #54
    Patsy167
    Registered Users Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117904947#Comment_117904947

    Nonsense



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    #55
    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117869517#Comment_117869517

    Don't be loyal to an organisation be loyal to a person.

    Don't break your balls making someone else rich.

    The biggest bullsh*tters and biggest whiners are looked after, the ones that get on with things are just expected to keep doing it.

    Yes I am cynical, but then again I have come across some absolute sh** managers and company owners in SMEs in Ireland that would walk over your corpse if it suited them.



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    #56
    Spiral Notebook
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Spiral Notebook


    I work in construction design and one that stuck with me is "a person who never made a mistake never made anything".



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    #57
    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,173 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117902060#Comment_117902060

    What if you work in the public sector and don't make money for your employer?



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    #58
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Never work directly alongside the person paying your wages. You will earn every cent

    Take a role where the person/company paying your wages is based in a different country

    Never work for an Irishman.

    An Irishman will expect you to do what he wouldn't do himself, an Englishman will only expect you to do what he would do himself.



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    #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    You're colleagues are not your friends. People's only true friend at work is their pay cheque



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    #60
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,026 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117904947#Comment_117904947

    Nope, but be careful of people who make such a claim....



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    #61
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Honesty is the road to poverty



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