Comments on: Creating Work http://youngandemployed.com/2009/07/02/creating-work/ Perspectives on business from young marketing and public relations professionals Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Workplace motivation | Young and Employed http://youngandemployed.com/2009/07/02/creating-work/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Workplace motivation | Young and Employed Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:35 +0000 http://youngandemployed.com/?p=65#comment-37 [...] I stated in an earlier post, I try to create new projects that will benefit the company when my work load gets low. However, in many of the [...] [...] I stated in an earlier post, I try to create new projects that will benefit the company when my work load gets low. However, in many of the [...]

]]> By: Frank http://youngandemployed.com/2009/07/02/creating-work/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Frank Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:19:03 +0000 http://youngandemployed.com/?p=65#comment-28 I totally agree with you, but one other thing I like to do on my "free time at work" is to improve my skills, as a photoshop artist and programmer, I like to work on those skills that then I create work using them and shine a bit more since those are skills that not everyone has in my line of work. But overall, I guess staying away from "wasting time" should be a life philosophy. Life is too short to chill and look busy. I totally agree with you, but one other thing I like to do on my “free time at work” is to improve my skills, as a photoshop artist and programmer, I like to work on those skills that then I create work using them and shine a bit more since those are skills that not everyone has in my line of work.

But overall, I guess staying away from “wasting time” should be a life philosophy. Life is too short to chill and look busy.

]]> By: Jose http://youngandemployed.com/2009/07/02/creating-work/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Jose Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:32:56 +0000 http://youngandemployed.com/?p=65#comment-26 Google (GOOG) is great at asking employees to do exactly this. They expect Engineers to follow the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=about.html&about=eng" rel="nofollow"> 20 percent rule</a>. In this rule they have to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing the projects that they are really passionate about -- of course, they have to be related to what the company does. Sometimes your career takes you where it wants to go. But if you really want to get to a particular situation in life, you have to take your career where you want it to go. ---- One word of caution. You want to generate value... not necessarily 'work' -- not all work generates value. I think in this article you probably referred to Value Generating Work. You could just take a ream of paper and cut it in 1/4 inch stripes with a pair of scissors, one page at a time. That would consume countless hours of work, but generate no value. Or... you can make a 15 min phone call that initiates the change that saves or creates thousands of dollars to the company. It is not only about the hours worked -- but about the value created. People get hired and/or promoted because they can provide more than $1 for every $1 spent on them (when you include salary, benefits, equipment, real estate, and support personnel). --- Voluntary value creation ideas could be a topic on which this blog could write many articles. Google (GOOG) is great at asking employees to do exactly this. They expect Engineers to follow the 20 percent rule. In this rule they have to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing the projects that they are really passionate about — of course, they have to be related to what the company does.

Sometimes your career takes you where it wants to go. But if you really want to get to a particular situation in life, you have to take your career where you want it to go.

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One word of caution. You want to generate value… not necessarily ‘work’ — not all work generates value. I think in this article you probably referred to Value Generating Work.

You could just take a ream of paper and cut it in 1/4 inch stripes with a pair of scissors, one page at a time. That would consume countless hours of work, but generate no value. Or… you can make a 15 min phone call that initiates the change that saves or creates thousands of dollars to the company. It is not only about the hours worked — but about the value created. People get hired and/or promoted because they can provide more than $1 for every $1 spent on them (when you include salary, benefits, equipment, real estate, and support personnel).

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Voluntary value creation ideas could be a topic on which this blog could write many articles.

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