{"id":1316,"date":"2013-01-31T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2013-01-31T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:47:34","slug":"putting-yourself-out-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/01\/putting-yourself-out-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Yourself Out of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experienced people have a significant problem in today&#8217;s unemployment environment: we are very good at knowing what should not be done.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been working since 1980. That is a lot of years in some fields. I know a lot more than I did in 1980. One of the areas where my knowledge has increased significantly is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recognizing work that should not be done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That <em>should <\/em>be a highly prized area of knowledge. \u00a0Employees who can discern useless work are able to use their time to perform only useful work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is wrong with that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I find myself in a small minority. People who pay the bills, a.k.a., customers, want me to do useless work. They don&#8217;t think it is useless. They think it is quite useful. Hence, they pay people to do it.<\/p>\n<p>What do I do? Explain why the work is useless and not do it? That causes me to wait until the customers find useful work. Sometimes that is a long, long, long wait. Go ahead and do the useless work because that brings a paycheck?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know a good answer for these questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Experienced people have a significant problem in today&#8217;s unemployment environment: we are very good at knowing what should not be done. I have been working since 1980. That is a lot of years in some fields. I know a lot more than I did in 1980. One of the areas where my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}