In my life, I have one principle: I do not promise something, which I am not sure I can fulfill.
Or if I'm not sure that if I make a promise, I won't give my best in trying to keep it.
That principle, no matter how crazy it seems to some, (to the extent that sometimes I got the question: "What do you care, why wouldn't you promise, so if you keep it, you've kept it"), has helped me throughout my life.
Rarely have I given false hope to someone from my environment and caused them to have unfulfilled expectations because of me. Maybe I made such promises to some people in moments when they desperately needed comfort, because then the promise that I would do my best to fulfill it was worth it to them as if it had been fulfilled...
And because of that principle, I generally never felt that I betrayed anyone.
Similar to how I behave in life, I also behave at work.
At my job, I promised (also committed myself in the contract) that I would perform the tasks assigned to me within the agreed time frame - 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
For this reason, when I receive a task, I approach it in accordance with my involvement in other tasks.
I generally try to complete all tasks as soon as possible, and if I know that I will not have time to devote myself to them, I inform the person who expects them to be completed from me, that there will be a delay or that the task will not be completed at all, if it exceeds my knowledge or capabilities.
"That doesn't apply to you," they told me. "It gives the impression that you are not capable enough."
So, should I accept what I know I won't be able to fulfill, or that after the agreed deadlines have passed, I feel even more incapable, when someone who expected me to complete the task, gets "Sorry, I didn't succeed".
In the company where I work, for the last few years, young people have been employed, who have just finished school and college.
Although they want conveniences and benefits, high incomes and fancy team building, fruit day and fitpass tickets for gyms, but they are not hungry enough for knowledge, and they want to make an additional commitment in order to learn something more, those young people have started to have a negative effect on us, the older generation and seniors?
And we, who strive and give our best, have begun to adopt some of their principles.
"That's not my job," a junior DBA told me, when I called him to help me with something on a server.
"I'm not calling you to help me configure RAID, but to move it from one Rack cabinet to another".
"Come over here and hold this, because if I drop the server, you can say goodbye to your databases."
But a very interesting statement from a beginner... "That's not my job".
Young people are our future and everything can be learned from them.
Even if it goes against my principles, I realized that I can enjoy a little procrastination and avoiding work, especially one that is not in the description of my position 🙂
Create a little more time for free activities.
Avoiding working from home on weekends or in the evening on weekdays has given me a little more free time for rest, socializing, playing and leisure (especially when I am not paid for that work).
I might be reminded of Aesop's fable about the ant and the cricket, where the hard-working ant worked while the cricket shirked his duties, until he got screwed.
Although sometimes lately I avoid what is de facto not my job, I still don't consider myself a flower in those situations either.
Rather, I consider myself an ant, who wised up 🙂 and in the old days, learned to appreciate himself, his knowledge, his work ethic, but above all his time a little more.
And that's why, when I work, I give my best in fulfilling my work obligations, without any procrastination and avoiding to complete the tasks as soon as possible or at least to bring them to a point from where I can continue forward the next working day...
But that's why, as soon as the hands on the clock mark 4pm, I pack up and leave the company, without thinking too much about the tasks I didn't finish that day.
As I'm getting older, the only thing that matters to me is that before I go home, I write down a short reminder of what I still need to do in order to finish the tasks I started.
we cant expect the same dedication and focus from the young generation, they are living in a different world.
When I was young, I thought I was smarter than other elders. Now that I am older, I am quite convinced that I was right. 🙂
Young people, who live in the same world as us, at the same moment, understand it much better and have a clearer vision of the future.
We older people have a picture of the world as we wanted it to be, when we were young.
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