Career Management: Are YOU Career Lazy?
Posted on July 11, 2011 by Dorothy Tannahill-Moran, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
No one likes to think they're lazy and it's many times cloaked as rationalization. Is this you?
Warning! I’m about to speak in code. We like to think of ourselves as: “not interested in making big money” or “not overly ambitious” or “focused more on life than work” or what? Being lazy is something we don’t like to admit to ourselves much less our own mother (who will love us no matter what except being lazy). We will substitute other words and rationalization for our behavior. You think we can’t tell but we can. You’re lazy and second to bad body odor, no one really wants to around that even if you’re charming. OK, maybe if you’re charming but only then.
If you are in the ranks of people that I’m describing, you need to pay attention to what I’m about to share. Someone needs to give it to you on the chin.
You may have reached a point in your adult life where you realized you didn’t care if you got ahead or excelled on the job or wanted to get a promotion or even much of a salary. Lazy is about effort and you discovered you simply didn’t want to put in any. You were willing to forego these things as a tradeoff. As a lazy person, you have learned to do things to try to hide the blatant truth about yourself. You have tried to look like you didn’t care if others passed you by. Perhaps you even attempted to look like those things were too materialistic. The great thing about rationalization is that it seems to sound good and even logistical to some extent. To you perhaps.
I’m here to expose your ugly truth. We really can tell. As much as lazy people think they’ve hid the truth about themselves, at some level the rest of us know. We pretty much let you keep thinking that we can’t see what you’re all about. You didn’t ask “does this rationalization make me look lazy?”
Here is some of the other code this signifies. It says that while you might truly just not want to do anything, it says you haven’t checked in to life. You don’t get it. We’re at our best when we are productive and contributing. We’re even better when we’re so passionate about our work that we can’t wait to get to it again. It says you might be afraid to try or might not be able to stand the failure that comes with striving. What you’re missing is that it will make you feel great about yourself. Not because you kept up with other people or met some type of social standard. You would feel great because you had something you strived to achieve and did it.
As a co-worker, you aren’t our first pick to work with. You can’t be trusted. If I know you’re lazy, I’m not sure what you will or won’t do. Many times, in your attempt to look like something you aren’t, you may inflate what you know or will do. Most of the time you don’t know or won’t do. Your rationalizations are filed under “Ignore”. You have preordained your outcome because of your “lazy-speak” we can all see through and because, even if you’re charming, what good is working with someone you can’t trust? The best people I’ve had a chance to work with are generally running faster than I am.
Where does this leave us? If you’re lazy, you’re missing out on a big chunk of life. I recognize that some people think there is a magical dividing line between work and life but I’m here to say the line doesn’t exist. This is your life or at least a big part of it. Stop trying to fool yourself. The effort you think will be so painful will be the best time of your life, if you just let it. Try some career growth. Fall in love with your work.
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