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Best investment advice: Invest in yourself!
Good news! The job vacancy I heard about a few weeks ago is definitely happening sometime before Christmas. I have contacted the employer and told them I want it. I know that they are keen for me to work for them. Now it's just a matter of them deciding if it has to get advertised or if I can take it up as soon as the position is free.
The one thing that I have always invested in is myself and my skills. In any job I have had if I am offered training or experience I take it. Even if it is not exactly my particular niche. Over 20 years of working life that adds up to a lot of different experiences in my field. I have also always studied. Study is very enjoyable for me I can't ever imagine not being enrolled in a course.
As a result I have never felt trapped in a dead end job or doubted my ability to get work. I have never had a problem getting work and do get approached about jobs at times.The last 3 jobs I have left without having a job lined up to go to. I have always found work within a couple of weeks. So for myself I don't worry about getting work. I worry more about being healthy enough to do the work.
So I suppose what I am saying is the very best investment you can make is in yourself. Don't say no to learning opportunities that you are offered on the job and keep learning about your field. It pays off in the long run.
Posted at 7:18 AM | Labels: Earn Money |
4 comments:
It's good advice.
The lazy persons route to any sort of success is in reading. If you don't read or learn, it will take you far longer to achieve stuff.
Why re-invent the wheel? Someone else is bound to have written about anything you're going to do.
An hour or so a night and after a week you'll have absorbed enough from a book to do a far better job at whatever you turn your hand to.
My first experience of this was many years ago. I was in a sales job and hating every minute of it.
So I started out trying direct mail. Sending out 100 letters was getting 1 or 2 enquiries.
But I spent ages sending out letters. Sometimes they would fail miserably.
Eventually I read a book on the subject.
I got better. Soon afterwards I devised a mailer which got 80 replies.
If only I had read the book months earlier.
From then on, I read more. On the same topic to get a broader view. And whenever I'm about to tackle something new, I find a book first.
Sometimes I'll buy two or three in an area I have no experience (after carefully reading Amazon reviews and checking sales stats to see if they are any good!).
People spend months or even years doing things the long-way around.
Get lazy. Read a book and save yourself all the hassle of getting it wrong.
Congrats on your job. I agree the best investment we should make is to improve our skills and knowledge.
I agree about the reading. I always have 2-3 books on the go.
I think that is one reason why I love the internet as well, there is access to so much information and support on any topic. of course you need to sort the wheat from the chaff, but there is a lot of good, free information available now.
I think the other thing I got from your post Ian is to not be afraid to fail. Each time we try something new we get better at it, so our skills build with experience.
Personally I think it's only a failure if a person doesn't learn from the experience.
Learning from others, whether it be books, blogs or in-person is a good type of laziness to have!
Hi Louise - Congratulations on the job. And great advice. I just don't understand people who stop learning. And there are so many out there who don't want to learn anything more than what happens next in their favourite soap. It's shocking.
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