Tag: career frustration
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How Being Good at Your Job Turns You Into a Dumping Ground
Nobody tells you this when you start your career, but being good at your job can be one of the worst things that happens to you in corporate. Not because competence is bad, but because in the wrong environment, competence is not rewarded. It is exploited. At first, it feels positive. You get trusted. People…
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“We’ll Revisit This Later” Is Corporate for “Nothing Is Changing”
There’s a sentence every underpaid high performer eventually learns to dread. “We’ll revisit this later.” It sounds reasonable. Sensible, even. Calm. Like progress is happening quietly in the background. It isn’t. It’s a polite way of ending the conversation without solving anything. A soft close on a door that was never open to begin with.…
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When You Stop Caring (And Nobody Notices)
It doesn’t happen in one dramatic moment. There’s no single day when you slam your laptop shut and declare you’ve had enough. It happens slowly. Quietly. A little more each week until one day you realise something that used to matter deeply now feels like nothing at all. You stop caring. And the scary part?…
The Toxic Boss 