Handy, cheap and willing | Seth’s Blog
The industrial age prized these three characteristics. We’ve all been indoctrinated into adopting them by our time in organized education, and it’s uncomplicated to consider that the environment however would like this.
When operate is geographically bounded and the assembly line is the dynamic of performance, this is specifically what’s sought. Your resume certifies that you have what it will take to look at the boxes, and the selecting enterprise adjusts its offered fork out to get the folks it needs, when they require them.
But now the guidelines have adjusted, quickly and maybe for the extensive haul.
There are even now businesses, quite a few of them, browsing for HCW. But these aren’t positions we in fact want.
When your job is electronic, when you can get the job done from dwelling, there is no such detail as “handy.” That suggests that the corporation is either likely to retain the services of the lowest priced doable particular person out of probably a billion worldwide, or get a computer system to do it, or…
Or they need to have to employ someone particular.
Somebody with major capabilities.
They may possibly be the traditional sort of capabilities. That you are truly truly good at coding or style and design or engineering. You have done the looking through, developed a overall body of work and gained the regard of your friends. That you’re not expressing, “you need to have any one, and I’m any individual,” but rather, are demonstrably and significantly better at the craft.
Or they could be true techniques, which some phone delicate competencies. That you bring emotional labor, thoughtful evaluation, care, humor, equanimity or other hard human actions to the function. Noticeably additional than most folks do. If you are off the chart at this, it will be valued by the places you’d be happiest performing.
The excellent information is that there is a route. The challenging component is digging in and turning into much better than fantastic.
Not superior than good at every little thing, or even superior than good for anyone. Merely much better than very good for anyone.
