Your Job Description Is a Trap. Here’s How to Break Free.
The only way to grow at work is to be better than the job you have
I recently found myself waiting in line at a printing and packing store. You know, the place you visit when you need to print your resume on fancy paper or ship your cable box back to the cable company.
Every time I have been in such a store, I have met at least one person in a state of high stress. Someone waiting for a print job that isn’t coming out just right, or someone shipping an item that needs to be on the other side of the planet in 12 hours.
I thought this particular visit would be no different. It took place a mere two days before Christmas, and tensions throughout the store were running especially high.
A woman was in utter disbelief that it would cost more than $1,000 to ship multiple large packages to her deployed boyfriend by Christmas. A couple was desperately trying to print ultra high-res copies of their Christmas card (why, at this late juncture, I have no idea). And then there was me, foolishly attempting to laminate and bind a stack of my daughter’s drawings so I could gift them to the grandparents… later that day.
If you want to get a better job than the one you have, you have to…
