{"id":1622,"date":"2014-01-20T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2014-01-20T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:17:11","slug":"its-a-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/its-a-partnership","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be tough to like your job, much less love it. You&#8217;re putting your time and effort at the disposal of someone else, and they&#8217;re mostly just interested in you &#8230; getting work done. How unfair!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what sets people on the direction of starting their own company and being their own boss. <!--more-->Unfortunately, there&#8217;s a whole other bunch of tradeoffs involved in doing that.<\/p>\n<p>How do you keep yourself from getting burned out in your job? You&#8217;d like to think that the transaction is simple: You do valuable work, and the company pays you in return.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a number of pitfalls in this simplistic approach:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What the company defines as valuable may not be very motivating for you (even if you&#8217;re pretty good at it).<\/li>\n<li>The pay&#8217;s power to motivate you diminishes over time as you adjust your lifestyle and expectations.<\/li>\n<li>This totally ignores the fact that you, your boss, and your co-workers are all complex human beings with desires, aspirations, and lives outside work.<\/li>\n<li>In almost every work environment, you&#8217;re competing against other companies and organizations which are constantly increasing performance expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What would change if you were working in partnership with your boss?<\/p>\n<p>In a partnership, you focus mostly on the commonalities, where you agree and share goals. Where do you agree with your boss?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You both want work to get done which has value.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;d both like to have that generate a paycheck which is fair.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;d both like the work environment to be motivating and productive.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;d like to like working with each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will have some twists and turns, of course, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>When you gather around shared goals, you&#8217;ll start seeing the difference as more minor, just annoyances to be worked on.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t tend to fixate on them.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing to develop a partnership with your boss and co-workers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be tough to like your job, much less love it. You&#8217;re putting your time and effort at the disposal of someone else, and they&#8217;re mostly just interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/its-a-partnership\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[15,45,56,71],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-1622","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"category-newsletter","10":"post_tag-career-coaching","11":"post_tag-goals","12":"post_tag-inspiration","13":"post_tag-partnership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}