My friend shared with me her bad experience during one of her job interview. The job is a clerical position. Her interviewer asked her would she want a secretary position if there were a vacancy? (Her qualification is good enough to be a secretary.) She simply answers yes. And guess what? She did not get the job.
Her friend went to find out why she did not get the job. The interviewer said that she should not answer yes because she hasn’t even start working and she wants to climb up already.
But if there is a better position, of course you will want it right? So it is wrong to be ambitious??? The political correct answer is "Yes, i would love to be a secretary but I can do any jobs at any point in time." <- This is what the interviewer wants to hear. So it is wrong to be so straightforward. This is so stupid and silly. People only want to listen what they want to hear! Anyway, we concluded that this interviewer just want a follower and not a thinker.
Isn't it better to be a thinker than a follower? A follower will just follow boss's instruction and deliver the job. A thinker will bother to take his own initiatives to help his boss to think further. The results will come out differently.
I used to be a follower but after so many years, being a follower is not good enough, you will just be under people's control all the time. If you are under a good boss, you will learn and grow. He may even groom you to be a leader.
But think about this, if you are under a lousy boss, you will be learning all the wrong things and adopting all his bad teachings and bad decisions or worse of all you get all shit jobs and blames...
A good boss will rope you in and groom you.
A lousy boss will throw you in the sea and watch you drown.
Whether you want to be a follower or a thinker, it is your choice... and I have chose mine...
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