{"id":912,"date":"2023-08-20T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T02:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2023-08-20T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T02:42:40","slug":"there-is-more-to-a-job-than-meets-the-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/20\/there-is-more-to-a-job-than-meets-the-i\/","title":{"rendered":"There is more to a job than meets the I !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">job description<\/span><\/i>\u00a0can never exactly give you the full picture. Just as\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the map is not the territory<\/span><\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">working is not productivity<\/span><\/i>, your job and your work while being connected has more to it than meets the common criteria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Your work far supersedes the job you do<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0Here\u2019s a hint: your <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>work<\/em><\/span> might not be what you think it is. A chef might think his job is to focus on the food. Or the Doctor who thinks her job is to cure patients. But the cure is only a goal and a subset of the <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">work<\/span><\/em> that has a bigger narrative. Of community upliftment, of healing, of teaching, of giving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the famous story of the two workers &#8211; one said his job is breaking stones at a construction site, while the other worker on the same site was proud to say that his <i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">work<\/span><\/i>\u00a0was about\u00a0building a beautiful cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Work-ou-Love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The technical tasks are important, but the\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">work\u00a0<\/span><\/i>involves more than that.\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There\u2019s always more to the work than what\u2019s in the typical job description.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The intangibles that are never part of your job description matter a lot. Delivering a great culinary experience for patrons is what a chef&#8217;s\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">work<\/span><\/i> would entail. Which goes far beyond the job of focusing only on the food.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A web programmer&#8217;s job description would be to write codes so that the site visitor gets to see what she is searching for. But the\u00a0<i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">work<\/span><\/i> at hand would be to offer a seamless, frictionless, engaging experience, that keeps her on the site happily for long and brings her (and her friends) back again and again and again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Doing your job is not always the same as doing the work<\/em><\/span>. There&#8217;s far more to it than meets the I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The job description default is a constraint.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Work<\/span> goes way beyond that brief.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are in a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>job<\/em><\/span>, you have your <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">work<\/span><\/em> cut out! <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Let&#8217;s not miss the wood for the trees.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A\u00a0job description\u00a0can never exactly give you the full picture. Just as\u00a0the map is not the territory\u00a0or\u00a0working is not productivity, your job and your work while being connected has more to it than meets the common criteria. &nbsp; Your work far supersedes the job you do.\u00a0Here\u2019s a hint: your work might not be what you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/20\/there-is-more-to-a-job-than-meets-the-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There is more to a job than meets the I !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1871,1869,1876,1874,1870,267,1875,1777,1873,1872,528],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cathedral","tag-chef","tag-codes","tag-construction","tag-doctor","tag-experience","tag-intangibles","tag-job","tag-job-description","tag-programmer","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}