Get my Free Sales Jumpstart Kit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nHere’s what to do instead:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n1. Deliver exceptional work and become indispensable<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The first thing that I can think of that would be really important for you to keep in mind is that you just need to make sure that you are delivering exceptional work and becoming indispensable for whoever it is you’re working for. The reason why I say this is because anytime that I think about the war room in which, you know, all the managers or leaders in a company were thinking about who to keep and who to lay off, the question always came down to who were the indispensable team members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so the question that I’d ask you is in the case where you wouldn’t show up for work for a day or a few days without telling anybody would things break down or be noticeably worse. And in the case where the answer to that question is not things would absolutely get to a stopping point or be a lot worse in outcomes than it means that you’re not indispensable enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best way is to be indispensable is to go beyond the call of duty of what exactly is in your job description. It’s taking what your boss has given you. And it’s doing even more than that, just to show just how valuable you are to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Keep a door open regardless of how happy you are in your job.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The second thing that I tell you to do is to keep a door open regardless of how happy you are in your job. In other words, keep a pulse on the market, especially in times like these, in which there’s a rising interest rate that are often highly specialized knowledge worker sort of roles. You wanna get a pulse on the market because what that means is that in the case where people are having to strip back their teams and really downsize or rightsize their businesses, it means that every single employee is more and more important, which means that other companies are going to be willing to pay more and more than ever before for your skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that’s especially the case in the United States. In fact, if I just look at digital marketing, for example, I’ve noticed how in the last two or three years alone, an entry level digital marketer used to make maybe 75 grand a year and is now making 95 grand, if not more at certain companies, just because the skillset is way more valuable today. And couple that with rising costs and inflation, and you’ve got yourself a perfect storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So definitely keep a pulse on the market, regardless of how happy you are, because it might also mean that you have more negotiating chips when it comes to your annual review to go to your boss or your employer to talk about what that might look like in terms of making sure that you’re fairly compensated for your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Build financial security for yourself<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The third thing that I recommend for you to do is to build financial security for yourself, to hedge for the worst. The worst thing that can possibly happen for you is to be in a situation where you are living paycheck to paycheck on your job, because in the case where your employer decides to do a round of layoffs, or even just fire you, you’re caught holding the bag of all the, you know, things that suck about the world at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so if you don’t have a couple months of savings in place you can really be caught, unprepared and in a really bad situation. And the worst thing you wanna do is put yourself in a state of stress in which you just lost your job. And then you also are worrying about whether or not you’re gonna be able to buy food or pay your rent or whatever it is that your obligations are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that’s something that I personally say that I have always prioritized in which I’ve never taken a job that I have ever fully truly a hundred percent needed because I never wanted to give another person or another company that level of control over me in terms of what I wanted to do with my career and what with my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that’s also another reason why it might be useful for you to start a side hustle, whether that’s an online business, some consulting services, a YouTube channel, or even an Etsy store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. What do you really want out of a job? What do you value?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
And then the last two things that I tell you to keep in mind or do instead is ask yourself, what do you really want out of a job? What do you value? For some people it’s having a consistent place where, you know, the expectations are really clear for them. They work with nice people and they know that what they put in is what they’re gonna get out. For other people, it can mean it’s a place where they really wanna be ambitious and apply their ambition in life. Whereas in their personal lives, they prefer to just kind of chill and hang out and have different hobbies and things like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone’s answer to this question is a little bit different. For me personally, I like to be stretched a little bit. I like to look for places in which I can grow, but at the same time, I can feel like my skills are positioned for success. For you, it might be something different. What I’d ask you is have you felt like you are making an impact and have you been productive in the day? Ask yourself those two questions when it comes to what it is that you want out of a job and in the case where most days that is yes, it probably means that you’re in a place where you’ll, you’ll be pretty content, you’re pretty happy with what you’re doing for work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Don’t fall for the family trap<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
And then the last thing that I tell you to do is don’t fall for the family trap. In the case where you work for small businesses, there’s gonna be tons of times when you know, your boss is gonna be telling you about how you should take one for the team or how you should do certain things, because we’re all family here. Don’t listen to that. It’s all a load of baloney. And it’s something that is ultimately an unfair trade to you. And it’s something in which you need to be wary of that because it’s usually a red flag, to be honest, in terms of who it is that you might be working for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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