Why do you suck at juggling now?
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What do senior developers say they'll work on improving in their performance reviews?
Another next career step is to take ownership of things without needing to be asked or told, to create and execute plans, to raise and address problems pro-actively etc. And if your workspace doesn't give you opportunities to do it, and you want career progression, then go somewhere else.
[1] https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-t...
This only works if your managers are actually invested and interested in having you grow.
If you start trying to take ownership of things without being asked you might also just be told to stay in your lane. If you start raising problems pro-actively you may be told to pipe down.
Yes, there's always "go somewhere else" except bad managers are more common than you think.
Or are they asking about you improving what you can do for them, your team and your company? Your job description is a baseline but if you’ve nailed that, there’s usually more you can do that’s outside of that.
Or you can be content with doing your job well, and make up some bs so your manager can write it on a form. Both are valid.
It's deeply demotivating to learn that your manager doesn't know you all that well and cares more about filling in checklists, at least for me.
However for those who are superstar / plan maker, this discussion is actually beneficial. This is the moment where among all of things available, prioritized items will be officially registered, rather than your manager make assumption on what needs focus / not. The field staffer has more knowledge on that so managers may also missing some points that can be unraveled during this discussion.
I hear all this and it seem useful also. But from what I have seen in last 5-8 years is that immediate supervisor/manager have hardly any power or resources to anything meaningful for employees beyond filling basic HR templates that go nowhere.
This could be different for very early career employees or startups where one's manager could be just the founder or CTO and the like. But for mid career and above employees in typical established business, managers seem merely human timesheet for work done. They have full mandate to get work done creatively , enforce corporate policies from up top but little in term of listening/approving any of their employee's considerations.
Still this is a good CYA move from both you and your supervisor, since any concerns are already officially registered, action is just not taken by management
The thing is, your manager has to fill in some paperwork and other admin processes to get you that raise. The manager is probably willing to do that work for you.
You can make this easier for them by helping them fill in that template. Making your manager's job easier IS part of your job, especially making it easier for them to get you a raise.
So yes, the main part of your job is to do the work explicitly assigned to you. And another part of your job is making sure that the work you've done is easily legible to the company.
family/friends relationships have other 'rules'/courtesies.
We’re in a golden era when same busy work has not yet expanded due to LLM influence. Let’s appreciate it while it lasts.
That's what I've been told, and such I always answer those questions in a way that has a concrete 'goal' that I can point to and either makes ME more valuable to the company OR delivered some thing that is valuable TO the company.
Just play along and talk about how you want to improve your mentoring skills or some other completely immeasurable platitude.
Ultimately this productivity-eking obsession is the organizational equivalent of free radical cellular damage. It's just a constant process of degradation to the integrity of whatever caused the business to be successful. Like death, it is unavoidable.
Doesn't happen, but hey at least I'm being honest about what I'd like to improve
(But wrapped in appropriate buzzwords & boss-speak.)
Wow. The wikipedia page has a nice list with links to videos:
is that ... is that juggling at that point?
It would be incredible if someone qualified 14 objects.
I’m assuming people don’t want to hear me at all. To be clear, I’m just sitting at my campsite, not showing up to the campfire circle with “anyone want to hear poorly-played music?” Though if someone else is sporting a ukulele, well, I think all bets are off at that point.
- Throw one over your shoulder/under your leg/around your back/
- catch each ball with your palm facing down instead of up
- Out->in cascade (throw from outside, catch from inside) instead of the traditional in->out
- 3 columns
- over the top (tennis)
- Any "mess"
- Any "box"
Then all of the above, but with
- 3 clubs
- 3 cigar boxes
- 3 clubs on fire
- while riding a unicycle
That should keep you going for a while
All tricks sorted by difficulty with animations. You can find good YouTube tutorials on most three ball tricks.
Whoop
I learned juggling in approximately 12minutes with a friend who knew juggling from before. He spotted me like you would spot someone in a gym: he put the balls in my hands, told me to hit one up, caught it mid flight (effectively freezing time), and told me "ok now hit the other ball up and catch this one". After 6-7 tries my brain was reprogrammed, and by the day's end we did juggling in pairs.
I guess the moral of the story is that a great teacher can push your limits way further than you could yourself? Or that it's easier to learn in a group setting?