Every profession comes with its own set of difficulties. No matter what your occupation is, professional life and careers haunt a lot of people when it comes to keeping up with the commitments. Most of the times we notice people being unable to keep a balance between their life and their professional life. Out of all the professions out there, the corporate world is considered to be the worst and harshest of them all. Since the day we step foot in the corporate world till the day we retire, it drains out all the endurance and energy out of a person.
We all fancy the careers in the corporate world working for some huge multinational conglomerate but, what nobody tells us is how hard it actually is and what it takes away from people. Here are some of the hardest truths you did not know about the corporate world:
1. The better you are at doing your job, the more you will have to keep up with when it comes to burdens.
2. Your individual progress does not mean anything in the corporate world and all that matters is the collective result of the team.
3. In the lives of most of the people who opt for the corporate world as a profession, there comes a point when they just do it for the money.
4. Creativity gets murdered the most when you have a desk job.
5. Sometimes it does not matter if it was your job to do something or not, you will just be held accountable anyways.
6. Your work scope will keep increasing constantly and soon you will be dealing with a thousand tasks that were not even yours in the first place.
7. Most of the times people grow out of loving their jobs just because they are made to believe that they need it and not that it needs them.
8. There is just no way out of the corporate competition. If you are slow you will not survive with your boss and if you are active and brilliant at your job your colleagues will hate you.
9. There is no doubt that you will meet millions of people during your career whose sole purpose will be to bring you down.
10. It does not matter if you work a 1000 extra hours after the office hours, the one day that you leave half an hour early that is what everyone will notice.
Demi Gray says in her book, The X Factor of Employee Engagement that increasing competition is the only reason for increased pressure on youngsters and fresh-graduates in the corporate world and they need to learn the basic tricks to survive it otherwise it is a brutal world out there.
Author Bio:
Demi is an HR and business executive who has rounded her career working in multiple industries to include healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and fast-food logistics. Demi is the managing partner of Accelerate MD, serves on the board for AceleratingME, and is a board advisor for various non-profit organizations. As a part of her pursuit, she has lead talent management initiatives that have impacted more than 150,000 team members over the course of her career and academic journey.
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