A Job is Just a Job!

You may wonder why all this fuss about career. You don’t want to build a “career”, you want to go to work every day, do your hours, get paid and enjoy the other aspects of your life. Job is just a job! Well, nothing wrong with that, really. If this is what’s working for you, all power to you.

Let’s take a closer look at this scenario. It seems like you want to have a stable job, not to worry about it too much, somehow go through your work days and focus more on what’s happening in your life after you come home from work. If this is true, then I guess we can say that that’s your intention, desire, goal, or whatever you want to call it. Now, how will you make sure you can really get that job and keep it? I don’t think you want to refresh you resumes all the time and move around a lot. You want to get something that fits your skills, is kind of easy to do, pays OK, and then you want to keep that job, correct? You want to prevent being told one day that they don’t need you anymore, because you are not fast, up to date, efficient, creative… enough?

Career doesn’t necessarily mean climbing the corporate ladder, or switching jobs to gain variety of experiences. It varies for each of us based on what our intentions are.

So, if your intention is to keep your job, then it’s in your best interest to at least keep your eyes open at what’s happening with the business you are in. Be aware of how it’s evolving as you are punching your hours over the days, weeks, and months. If you want to feel like your job is stable, so you can focus more on those other things in your life, you must at least be alert and flexible. And guess what? If you are doing that, you are definitely building a career, your career.

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Why Everyone is (or Should Be) a CEO

When I tell people that everybody is a CEO of their own corporation, I often get blank stares. “But, I don’t even have a corporation!” they say. “How can I be a CEO?

In the dawn of the 21st Century, the workforce is increasingly being distributed. Companies outsource tasks to people located all over the city, the country and, thanks to the power of the Internet, all over the world.

The world, all the sudden, has become smaller, and any company or individual has the power to tap into unlimited resources, selected solely based in their skills, availability, and price, without concern for their race, age, believes, social status or location.

Increasingly, knowledge workers are becoming mobile. Free from the constrains of the office, they can live and work wherever they please.

No matter if you work on your own, own a small company, or are just happy working for an employer, small or large, you should think (or start thinking) about yourself as your own company: You Inc. Your company-of-one offers your knowledge and services, on exchange for a monetary remuneration, to other companies of one or more employees.

Your company of one also hires the services of other companies by outsourcing tasks that you don’t want to (or don’t know how to) perform.

Only when you really believe that you are the CEO of your own company, you can really feel free and unafraid of the internal policies and dynamics of the larger corporations. If you are not happy working for them, you will always have many other companies (large or small) interested on your services, experience, and expertise. Or you may decide that it is time for you to leave the nest and start your own independent business.

It is all up to you.

In this blog, I will try to show you why you need to change your mindset and start thinking the way the CEO’s of large companies think: by giving their time and priority to the companies that they manage.

In this case, you will give priority to yourself, since you are your own company.

Are you ready for this incredible journey? I sincerely hope so since it will take you to incredible places.

Now, let’s begin…