Why Working Overtime Will Backfire
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Coming up with look into why working too many hours after hours is actually backfire for a lot of people in job searching for four years and a degree hasn't helped the Young man. I'll dive into a story and help him out next. Helping you win at work is our aim.

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The opinions are and IT turns out that the household culture of working after hours, sending emails, sending text is beginning to backfire or has been backfire for a while. I have in my hands a fast company article, and the also the article make some points, and i'm ggt na wait on this. Specifically, five reasons why the sydney emails, text working after hours suspect.

And let's look at where we stand in the world of work. Since the pandemic, there has been an increasing pressure on executives, on leaders of organizations, to monitor overworking, to monitor burn out things of the stature because of the attention on getting people back to the office and the freedom of working from home. And all of the pluses, all the miners are not going to get into that issue.

There are so many comments, so many feelings, so many plus so many negatives on both sides of the fully remote or work in the office. But the, the, the point here is, is that a lot of americans are saying, you know what? I want more freedom.

I want more autonomy. I don't want to work like crazy. I like to stay with you. And so as a result, leaders, CEO executives, H R.

Departments are saying, we've got to keep an eye on this because if someone feels overworked, they get more options than we've ever had before. At least that was the certainty of the perception coming out, the pandemic when we saw the great resign nation happening. And so we wanted watch this because it's very difficult financially and organisationally to replace someone.

This is true. IT in erupts raths IT erupts momentum, all of which creates a productivity and a profitability. Probably cost a lot more money to replace someone, then keeping somebody. And so right fully. So there is now focus on its monitor people's workload as much of their opinions on their workload, it's that's where we are now.

So if a staff member throw a survey or through a direct meeting or their leader gripes about their workload, IT is a red flag that could get your manager in hot water. And so they're paying attention to IT. But has IT changed much of actual habits of people? Study came out last year, they said eighty one percent of remote employees check in other emails in text outside of workhorse.

And i'll keep in mind this is remote. So if your entire engagement of work is in a remote setting. Is IT easier for you to jump on your computer, jump on your phone after hours?

I think the answers, yes, for instance, I work in an office, so when i'm done today, I will get in my car and I will drive home there. Just that very act creates some psychological separation. I'm now, i'm now leaving a place of work and I moving into my home in relationships in very different duties there.

So there is a clear separation. Now lets look at some of these. Surveys employees who feel they have to answer emails and text outside of work hours, say IT drives job to satisfaction. And this stat is at an all time look.

And as I said earlier, this is not just something that affects you and that you cannot attach, and so your stress levels stay high, and that negatively impact you physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, but also can get your boss in trouble. Let's go through these five reasons why this is a bad idea. Okay, that's the first one.

The employee satisfaction. If if employees are not satisfied, then their productivity drops, profitability goes with IT. Reason number one. Reason number two of why you shouldn't be working after hours. This is an interesting observation that never happened to me, but I know that has happened.

And the reason given by the author is the new jc reaction where you could just kind of distracted at home. Maybe you're the middle of task then if you're walk in the dog and you're paying since the dog may be you're listen to music, you get a text in instead of let that sit or email notification comes instead let that sit next morning. What do you do?

You respond IT right away and your brain is not completely intact is a relates to the focus issue. And so what do you do? You fire off um something quick and IT comes across that way IT comes across as dismissive, may be little too abot or harsh and now you created a problem for yourself. Reason number three, brain for take the minute the text comes in, you distract from all those activities or whatever you're doing that supposedly helping you fill back up. You've been saying that show many times you can't give what you don't have the very word recreation is recreation to create yourself.

And so the constant i'm on call for the next email, the next text IT creates a moment and in another moment and in another moment where instead of recreating yourself or refreshing yourself, you're actually weigh yourself down now for fore mistake and identity, one small slip of the thun, we received a work email to a good friend, or maybe to a work enemy. Or or what if we send something that was confidential and sensitive in the organization, and IT goes as somebody that shouldn't seen IT. Now this happens all the time.

I have been in a hurry before, and i'll type the person's first name, thinking, that is, populating the person I want to any goes to somebody else. I got a text other day from a different mine who meant to send a text to another guy name can. And he came to me, and IT was a confidential text that was interesting.

Good boy, what are you doing in that situation on the wrong kid? So what I said, I text us like wrong can now that was an anything solenius nothing you know but I was clearly like IT was a personal message I didn't even get, but I just made me feel weird and awkward. I think we got to be careful here.

And again, if you're sydney messages after hours, again, distract with other tasks. No way. And then finally, the way the author, the article defines this is called being a keener. This is an old word.

We don't eat very much anymore, but you're okay with working all the time and you're kind of the person is raising their hands saying, hey, i'm in for more, give me more, give me more, give me more and and that that right there is a way to get ahead. But the author takes a stab at this. You don't want to be seen as somebody who's always willing to work.

And this is where I take issue with the the author on this. I think you enrage you, him and say i'm willing to go the extra, i'm willing to do more, but you can also still be healthy with that. In other words, I don't think the u asian hand say, and hey, i'm game to step up to do what you need means that you turn yourself into work aholic and you're working after hours all the time.

That's not what I think. There are seasons. There are burst where you could say, you know what, my leader needs a little exter help.

This is an opportunity for me to step up and maximize my role. But now we live in a culture where we're throwing that out too. And well, now you just shouldn't work out there. I don't agree. I I I am not like the super entreprise who. Work all the time, never see their family and essentially have no life in order to make a big number that all sudden they reenter into their family life like, hey, remember me, i'm not for that, but i'm also not for this idea that I never going to go above and beyond what my role requires of me this idea of quite quality of the bare minimum and of a good job and move. I'm not for that either uh, but all in all this idea of there are healthy boundaries between their seasons where i've got to do something, maybe I worked one night out of an entire month because a flix that's really what's needed, but that's baLanced with the rest of your life in that rythm. So the idea here is, is that this constant on call because you're constant sending messages and emails telling everybody you're working all the time, you're willing to do IT, that's not good.

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All right, time for a reality check for a lot of people. And i'm. Fairly certain this is going to rule some fathers. And so i'm going to be as measured and as kind as I can be. But I think there are a lot of people who need to see this.

I imagine by the time this makes IT on youtube, alex, that this is going to office end up a lot of people but again, um I believe that i'm positioning this right and that I might help some people the right how about ever set up? So here we go. I'm a rip the band date off i'm looking at at an article right here.

Headline says a millennia, a who's been looking for a job over four years says his degrees have offered little value. I can't get anything, even at minimum way. This is a yahoo article.

Now i'm going to tell you something, as soon as I saw the headline, I shook my head. And i'd love to meet this Young man, and i'd love the coaching because this is factually incorrect. He told this reporter that he can't get anything, even at minimum wage, right? So let me fill in the details will get back to that statement that is factually incorrect.

IT is emotional. IT has zero logic attached to IT at all. But this Young man represents million of americans.

I'm not going to say his name because I don't want this to come across this one kind. But here we go. The set up to the article is this guy represents millions of americans with college degrees.

I can't use now that part totally, totally get IT. But just because you have a degree that you can use in a workplace doesn't mean you cannot work more on that a minute. Here we go.

So this gentleman says he looks and applies for jobs every week. We don't know how often he looks. We just know that he looks and applies for jobs every week.

I don't know how he applies, at least yet. He says he's even expanded his jobs search to restaurant and retail jobs, stock in shells and slow and flipping patties. But he struggled even to get a second interview for any job.

why? How are you presenting in the interview? I like this might be worth, I don't know, fear up for this, but this might be worth me going to apply for a job flip in burger somewhere.

Do you think I could get a second interview? I guarantee you I could get a second interview. I go dressed just, I need a dress like Normal joe, whatever that is, maybe a hoody like today.

What you think Kelly is Normal joe, enough. I go apply for a job. Flip and burgers? Yes, say so.

Maybe I put ahead. I don't know. I mean, I know a middle aged.

No comments from you, Kelly. Keep IT IT keep IT zipped up. Thank you for the moment. I let you know when I want you to.

Are you telling me a place right now that needs somebody to flip burgers? Isn't gona give me a second interview? I don't buy IT unless you go in acting like it's beneath you.

You have a poor attitude. Whatever I, I, I know buy this. Here's what he says.

His journalism degrees, two degrees, by the way, have opened no doors. And that is overall qualified for any entry level positions applied for. Now, again, I call bs on this. alright.

So okay, you go in for one of these jobs and they look at your resume is got these two degrees and go, how come you you not in journalism and you take five to ten minutes, talk about how you can find a journalism job and you're down on your lock guess what? They might go, hm, something a little off here. But if you go and you go, look, I I get two degrees in journalism.

But that field right now, it's changed dramatically. There's this is not the same field. And right now, i'm a guy who just needs stability and I want to bust IT and I want to come in and work and I am ready to start today and i'll work like this is the greatest job in the world because I need to work and this is good for me.

I'm here because this is not beneath me. This is for me, and i'd like to job. Now if you went at that, right, I doubt something. You those types of jobs, they know people are not staying with them for a long time, so don't tell me you can get that job. Don't tell me that that's absolute garbage unless you go in and you self sabotage during the interview.

But he goes on to say having a degree doesn't guarantee success in the job market due the cost of college and persuing degree may not be worthy for some people. I've been saying this for a very, very long time now i'm again, this is gna sound like i'm picking on this guy. I'm not okay, but I want you to watch the pattern of everything that he said so far, by the way, folks, to the quote now he goes on to say i've been forced to rely on student loans.

The amazon sales of a Young adult book I published insurance money tied to the death of his father and his mother's disability payments, which he shares with him. All right, now, again, some of you need to buckle up for a minute, because here comes the truth. Isn't been forced to rely on student loans to make roman noodles? No one's forcing you to do that.

He's choosing to do that instead of get now, draw on shovel and dig in freak tech. Number two, he's relying on the amazon sales of his Young adult book. okay.

Ah, yeah, okay. That was his way of telling the reporter that he has a book for sale on amazon because he isn't sold any copies. Anybody outside of his cousins, he wants to be an author, journalism major writer.

I've got a Young adult graphic novel, mazza. They will tell the fast company people, the mere folks, the guy is a fantasy home, chasing the fantasy. Next, he got some insurance money left over, tied to the death er's father.

That's a brutal deal. He's suffering emotionally from the loss of his father. Grief is real.

He needs help, not sit in around trying to sell a book on. The best thing you can do coming out of grief is do something productive. Go volunteer for somebody. Go to a church.

If you can afford the therapy, is go to a church to give with a pastor next, his mother is on disability, and SHE is paying for him, and he is letting his mama pay for him. Do acknowledge that someone can come out with two journalism degrees. And there aren't many journalism jobs anymore because the face of journalism, the industry of journalism has has very much change, and jobs have dried up. Yes, I gone.

Is that? But guess what? You got two degrees. You have some talent with writing and words and some verbal skills. Those can be using a lot of ways.

Don't tell me through this reporter that you can even find a fast food job. You can't find a job at a grocery store. Everywhere I go, people look for help in those areas everywhere.

Don't tell me that you can walk in off the street and look like you've got your act, act in gear and tell them what's going on your life and say, i'm here to work hard because I need a job and i'll work Better than anybody else you on this team and tell me they're not going to Harry, you are going. You're qualified because you have two degrees. Not going to say that to you, not where the sciences help.

Wanted question is not, do they want your help? The question is, do you want that kind of work? The answer is no.

You want to write novels, Young adult novels and put them on amazon. I'm offer that, but that's when you are not working, you are writing. You can get up at five years and right for hour fan free kanta tic.

Go work, Young man. There's a reality T, V show is put me in these people's orbits and i'll walk in enough to be a drill sergeant. But i'm not going to put up with any crap i'm going to call him out on and go.

No, we're getting in my car on my gas and we're driving around and i'm going to put an undercover FBI wire, mike, on your bot and you're going to go in and do an interview and I am going to listen to in the car and you're going to come back in the car and to tell you everything you did wrong and I am a sincere, your stink and snifty little weak minded blood back in there and go, hey, listen, this is awkward. Can I get one more minute of your time? Hey, I just realized what when I was walking out there.

This is what I said, and this is what I said, and this is how acted I shouldn't done IT. Can I just tell you, I need a job, and I need to swallow in my pride. And my pride was in the internet interview, and i'm well in the swallow my pride, if you give me a chance and i'm going to work my butt off you and let me tell something after they got don't picking their jaw up off the floor theyd hire you because what I just described, all you folks that are in the situation, and i'm sorry here in this situation, but you know what I just describe, it's called gump tion, look IT up.

It's a word that you probably have never used in a sentence because of our crappy school system in america. But gump tion ought to be your new favorite word. Go get you some.

Because I want to tell you this, people who who survive and they eventually thrive find them some gumption, and they use that gumption, and then they thrive because they've built up gmp tion. And we've got a nation full of Young men to the tone of millions who are sitting at home licking their wounds in between video game downloads. And they got no freaking gump tion.

We need more gumption. And if you don't know what gmp tion is, IT ain't soup is an attitude. Look IT up and go find you.

Summer, let me give you a clue. Doing hard things in hard times will get you all the gumption you'll ever need. Let me repeat IT do hard things in hard times.

We got a bunch of men who are WPS, who in the hard times come, they go to easy things and video games and load up on my les, when hard times come, do hard things. And then you're gonna realize that when the next round of hard things come along, it's still gonna hard. But you're more equip for IT.

And in this economy, there is no reason for people sitting around saying to reporters, i've been four years without a full time job. No, you've been screwing around, licking your wounds. Make IT excuses for four years. It's time for some comment, Young man. Go get IT.

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I feel it's necessary to help folks with the definition of gumption before we get to our coaching call. I don't want to be you I know at all. So I thought, you know what? Let me just define and let me look good for me.

So this is the, this is the oxford dictionary definition of gumption, spirit initiative. That makes me feel good. Spirit, initiative spirit gets up that in your face, in your body.

I know I look weird right now, but like, that's a spirit. I've got a spirit of frustrated. I've got a spirit of joy.

I got a spirit of tenacity. It's it's a spirit initiative. I'm going to do something with some spirit.

That's what IT is. Gumption is doing something with some spirit. And let me just help out the oxford folks.

It's not doing something with a poor spirit. It's doing something with a good spirit. You pick the good, hopeful, happy, tough minded resolve, convicted.

There you go. Sorry, just want to close the loop on that gumption doing something with some spirit. Man, we need more of that.

Alright, let's go to Jordan. Norman okhotsk that little rant. Jordan, on the can comment show, how can I help .

as good to .

speak to you? I've warning you i've got at some extra gmp on today .

apparently or so i'm the senior uh, in college right now. Uh, i'm graduating next day so i'm kind of starting my all time job search and I know talk about how import is to get referrals and obviously can a mass applying to job applications pretty in effective, which totally makes sense. Um however, I kind of want to ask you more specifically at what strategies you've used to gain in companies. I don't have any uh existing contacts there like I don't go on a link down and finding people of the company are who meant to be home, for example. But IT kind of feel a little, I guess, uncomfortable and maybe transactional for some kind of asking someone to stick their necks out for me when, no, I don't personally know me.

Yeah, yeah. Great question. You make great question. okay. So what industry are we looking .

to get into a aviation?

okay. And when you're going on on linked in, I love that you're starting with alcohol a connection, but have you thought about okay, let's go, let's go a little bit more personal. I like the okura connection and I think it's A I think it's a really good a bonus connection point.

Well, what i'd like you looking for is okay. Um do I have any second or third connections? Who are those connections to these people that work at these aviation companies.

So now we're looking at real relationships and even even something as um distant as a social media connection. So you know each other you don't know each other very well. You know each other enough to wear at some point you connect them on social media.

You see, okay, um they live in that area and do they do they work at that company? Do they know somebody they work that I mean, this is one of those it's kind of a detective. It's kind of like a really extended version of the match game you play when you're A A kid.

Remember that game, the match game, you try to match up. You know, animals are thinking, have a bunch of tiles. You turn one over, you turn another over. That's the idea here.

It's I like that you're starting with link in, but I I think i'd go so far as is telling the whole world on social media, i'm looking to go work for company X, Y, Z. Anybody on here have a family member or a friend who works there that takes all of about ten seconds, might not yield anything. But you might start with a connection point where you go, okay, there's one tile.

I turned over and turns out one of my social media connections has an uncle that worked at company X, Y, Z. Now what you do is you go to the front, you go, hey, would you be willing to set up a phone call or resume with your uncle and just so I can say, hey, i'm a friend and i'm trying to get on here and I wanted to make a quick ten minute connection. Wanted know if you know you any questions for me and if you'd be willing to um be an in company reference for me. That's what very few people are willing to do, joran. But IT could very well be the thing that get you in makes sense yeah .

that makes sense. What you think like reach out to them and try to have maybe like a call with them first or just jump straight into L I, K. I'm i'm looking figure into this company. Like to see sort of as forth right right out the door.

Yeah, right the gate go hey listen thanks for your time and know times and I know your nephew, uh, john set this call up with this and look, i'm sure i'm coming out of college and i'm trying to get in and i'm looking at entry level here and i'm looking for foot hold. Here's what I know if if I put in a resume like everybody else, IT is a good chance that you know i'm i'm nameless, faceless.

I'm not gonna look so I wanted to to see if I could express my hunger, uh my humility, uh to to get in here and i'm willing to answer any questions about my grades, my background, why I want to get an aviation with the hopes that maybe you would be willing to take my resume into hr. That's absolutely what you're doing if you do what I said, which is i'm given you one example so that you could go how would one actually do this? Well, again, it's who do I know that knows somebody that works to those companies.

And I just believe you might be closer connected to IT and you realize might be five connections, right? So so let's say it's this example i'm giving. Do you understand how that works? You put something on all social media and when your friends goes, yeah, my alcohol works, you go, hey, can I talk to europe quick, you know? Or would you be going to set up a call of my uncle? I mean, you you're uncle because here's what i'm trying to do.

And I will take a little more than ten minutes at the time. They want more the time and that great. But I just I am trying to make a connection with somebody in the bill. Does that make sense to you?

Yeah no, I think that definitely makes sense. Like maybe put out a link to input. Just kind of describe a bit about my qualification.

something like that. yeah. But again, I think it's so i'm just simply going you've got friends on social media, correct? yes. All right. So how many friends you have? Let's pick up what's your what's the social media platform where you have the most followers?

Instagram, I have many followers.

You have, uh.

about eight, nine hundred, eight.

nine hundred OK. How many people would you say that each of those eight to nine hundred people that follow you on instagram? no. How many people to? Each of those people .

know about two hundred, at least if you done the .

math on that nine hundred times two hundred, somebody do that. Forming in the booth row quake. I continue to talk. I can't again talking at the same time.

But is hundred eighty thousand?

Okay, good man. One hundred and eighty thousand people. Now, do you know all of those one hundred eighty thousand people? Are you going to be able to get to all one hundred and eighty thousand of those people? No, but that's not what we're trying to do, aren't what we're trying to do is just play the passengers game. And so if I reach out to nine hundred people on instagram and I say, hey, my inter friends, do any of you know anybody who works at company x wise? If you do, can you dm, me now, do you think there's a chance that maybe two or three or five people might know somebody there?

Yes.

very likely you. But even if it's one, okay, that how we do this, this is what makes you stand out. This is what takes you to success because you are willing to do things that other people are not willing to do. Now this is when you don't have any connection in your first closed personal network and you're trying to get in. That's a strategy that I would be in point.

But then I would also be doing more and more linked in research and find out where some of these employees in a pay attention if you can find them on other social media networks and and see if they um see if some of them are members at a golf club and a fear golfer, boom, reach out hey, I love to pay for your golf sometime. See what i'm saying it's like turn yourself into a private investigator and reach out to these people you know yeah make IT easy for them. Make IT easy for them to meet with you. And if I found out that one of the guys at the office that I want to work at is a pick ball player right now, I promise you, i'm gonna reach out to him and go here I see this your pick ball player um i'm real interested enjoying in your company, but i'd love to learn more about the company and you in your role and get your insight would you be going to place a pick ball with me and then i'll take your drinks afterwards? right?

That's the idea.

So so, so there you go. It's recent repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, recent repeat. And at some point you uncover a connection which could lead you to the job.

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