Your job is your life and your company is your family
On Linkedin (or “Tinder for Business”, as some like to call it), there is a never-ending stream of posts evolving around these three statements:
Your boss isn’t a friend.
Work isn’t a family.
Remember that your job is just a job.
Let’s get a few things straight here, once and for all:
When you treat “a job as just a job”, you won’t ever succeed at any career.
To succeed in any chosen career path, you must be willing to put in the extra time and the extra effort.
There is an old saying that it takes 10,000 hours to master any art, craft or profession. But reaching the state where you master something is just the starting point, not the end goal: Only when you master your craft, you can eventually become great at it.
Beethoven had mastered the craft of playing the piano when he was eight years old and gave his first public concert. But he composed his masterpiece, the ninth symphony, when he was 54. Unfortunately, he died before he could finish symphony number ten, which, based upon the restored fragments, probably would have towered miles above the genius he had already shown in number nine. Those fragments, however, prove that even his deafness could not stop him from constantly working and improving his mastery of the art.
