Job Motivations Must Be More Than A Paycheck

Even with the news of more and more layoffs, you CAN NOT lesson your professional goals. If you are showing up for work with the sole purpose of trying not to get fired, you are selling yourself and your company short. I work for a company that isn’t doing so well at the moment, but our mission is pretty clear, at least locally. Come to work today, learn a little more, innovate a little bit, keep kicking the competition’s ass, and chances are we’ll get to do the same thing tomorrow. It IS NOT show up, lay low, and take home a check at the end of the week. My personal goals are insanely high. That in itself is a personal problem with failure at times to reach expectations... …but if my only expectation was to show up, lay low, and take home a check at the end of the week, what kind of existence is that? It’s not worth my time, and probably not worth the money my company or personal clients pay me. And they currently aren’t paying that much I have recently finished the book Fire Your Boss by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine, where the authors pretty much smack you in the face with the notion that your job is your job because they pay you, and you have every right to leave a job if someone offers to pay you more. But what’s going to motivate anyone to pay you more…or let you stay and keep your current paycheck. Marginal effort or massive effort? The Fruit Company