If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
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Re: If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
#2water is useful. Diamond is valued.
So be the diamond, not the water. Unless there's no water around anymore...
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#3> If you’re reading this and wondering which side of the line you are on, I encourage you to take a moment to step back and look beyond the surface. Are you valued, or just useful?
Thanks for reminding me again that my 20 year career has been completely useless, other than being a "seat-filler".
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#4water is useful. Diamond is valued. So be the diamond, not the water. Unless there's no water around anymore...
Assuming you wish to be valued more than you are useful.
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#5But if you want to be valued you must be useful at the first place.
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#6water is useful. Diamond is valued. So be the diamond, not the water. Unless there's no water around anymore...
you are saying diamond is not useful ?
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#7But if you want to be valued you must be useful at the first place.
I don't think so. A lot of managers value people who excel at talking big while doing little (if any) useful work, while they ignore the useful people who actually get things done.
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#8I was valued. Then the company laid off the whole country and stopped hiring in that country.
In the end it's just luck.
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#9But if you want to be valued you must be useful at the first place.
Useful can means many things. A scapegoat is useful, for example.
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#10water is useful. Diamond is valued. So be the diamond, not the water. Unless there's no water around anymore...
The title is a false dichotomy; you should be both, if you're only valued but not useful you're part of this echelon of seat fillers who get fired at layoff rounds to cut costs.