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МНЕНИЕ | OPINION RUSSIAN COAST | № 4/12 2022
(with increasing my salary, of course!). I go
to a company where all Stuff is 10 people
Either we learn to re-evaluate ourselves and I do the same thing out of habit - they
throw me out on the street, because a small
and our capabilities, take off the crown company does not have the resources to
compensate for the dementia and courage
and look for our place in the world, or of a small clerk, who can deftly report on
the earned budget, but is NOT interested
in final result. The final result for him is
we find ourselves on the sidelines along «compensation» for the spending effort. And
the effort spent - there seems to be.
with the same «naked kings». But it doesn't work in the new world. Is it
cruel? - Maybe. But the world is ready to
accept only what really has a high consumer
value. Especially from neophytes.
One of the main features of the current
situation can perhaps be formulated as a
return to traditional values, expressed in
the medieval maxim «When Adam plowed
and Eve spun - who was the lord?» By the
way, the Turkish economy and the way
of life of small shopkeepers adheres very
firmly to these ancient postulates - work
creates wealth! Labor, and not the miracle
of the roulette wheel, which throws out
millions to a random player who does not
deserve it in any way, well, except perhaps
by the fact of his coming to the casino.
Consistent meaningful and, most probably
most importantly, regular actions, and not
mythical «luck» and being in the «right» time
in the «right» place, lead to prosperity.
Unfortunately, this easy money that was
paid in large corporations played a cruel
joke for nothing with many people.
An inadequate assessment of oneself
and one's usefulness to society does not
contribute to effective and quick adaptation
to new realities, but there is no other way.
Either we learn to re-evaluate ourselves
and our capabilities, take off the crown
and look for our place in the world, or we
find ourselves on the sidelines along with
the same «naked kings». Perhaps someone
will discover himself in a completely new
capacity, maybe a tiler, a plumber, maybe
a proofreader or a translator, but definitely
not a «targeting expert» who is not able
to formulate a sane goal for himself, a
«business coach» who does not have
any business behind him , and so on and
What is your department doing? – Our 20 years - to get noticed by the authorities, so forth, everyone will surely remember
department prepares reports - What are the and it was a damn effective strategy! I something that will make them smile.
reports about? – Our reports are about how generate 10 idiotic initiatives every day, The time of «naked kings» is ending, and
reports are written. even if all of them are impossible, but the it is almost over. There is no way to go back,
By and large, this, of course, is not the fault boss considers me an enterprising employee and it is not worth waiting for it to ever return.
of plankton. Well, he worked in strategy for and will probably make me his deputy However, here everyone chooses by himself.
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