You may think what is this about a job, on this blog about having no fixed office. Well, although i tend to think that working in your own business, free of the restrictions that a job can place on you, or that having an office can tie you to. Getting a job or two for at least some time can be a benefit in what your overall experience can be of working as a whole.
It should come as no surprise that when you work with other people you are going to find yourself involved with quite a number of different types of people. Interesting people, helpful people, inspiring people, annoying people, rude people, and even some scary people. Depending on the job that you end up taking you can encounter these people in different ways, through working with them, or for them, as customers and as consultants, and through random happenings.
The one thing that you will find in almost all cases is that you can very, very quickly place most people you encounter into one group or another. Which is really the truth behind the “First 30 seconds counts”. While in time some people might move from one category to another, in general that first impression will often count the most.
Often there are also a number of other things that you will come to find show through in many people the longer you work with them. Beyond the first impressions, the second thing you will find you quickly can notice is which people you are working with are the hard workers, which are willing to help you and also which are getting by with doing as little as actually possible. This is unfortunate for some as often it leads to a great inequality in just how well some people will do, and really gives little if any incentive sometimes for the brighter people to actually move forward.
Another of the more common things that i have found to be more disturbing then enlightening in anyway is the fact that some people just do not get it. It can be literally anything, how to do the job, what working actually entails, or why they need to really use common sense when they are working. This can often be such a large problem that you sometimes even have to wonder how people actually live theit life, let alone get by as they do in the job they are doing.
While some of these things, i am sure that you really dont want to have to experience working with, there are potentially some benefits that can be gained. For one the appreciation of working for yourself and not having to work with people that often make things more difficult. Additionally it can help you to create a better idea of what type of people can help you move forward and which will do nothing more then pull you backwards, and knowing which is which can be a decent benefit for little inconvienience.