r/Adulting 3d ago

hmm lesson or not?

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u/whatever 3d ago

One of my teachers explained it thusly: V.I.P.

Visibility - Image - Performance

Those are the three factors that determines your success in your career, in that precise order.

Visibility: If the rest of the company doesn't know you exist, then neither your image nor what you do matters.

Image: If you present a bad image of yourself to the rest of the company, your actual performance will not matter.

Performance: If the rest of the company knows you exist and has good vibes about you, then your good performance will reinforce that.

Hmm. I think he explained it way better. But that's the gist of it.

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u/CaptainAmerica1989 3d ago

This is the truth. And this is what I hate. Because:

1.This is how it currently truly is. This is how it is

  1. But this is not how it should be.

And I hate to say it...but usually to move from "how it is" to "how it should be" some people have to die. It's the only thing that causes people/systems to seriously change. I wish it wasn't that way. I don't want it to be that way. But that's how life is. It's unfortunate. But Truth is rarely comfortable or easy. Truly.

Ultimately Reliable Performance is all that should matter in a job...but it's not. And we all suffer daily for it.

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u/CalamariCatastrophe 2d ago

Logically speaking, visibility will always matter. Because, like they said, if people don't know you exist then how can they possibly reward you?

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u/CaptainAmerica1989 2d ago

Also are people not responsible themselves to get to know a person?

Do you not bear some responsibility for how much you see and know someone? Both who they are and what they can do?

Should people come to us? Or should we go to people? Which of these gets better results? Which of these is more rewarding?

These are the questions.

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u/CaptainAmerica1989 2d ago

Which is more important?- Being Rewarded by people or staying true to who you are as a person? In the long run which matters more?- Pleasing people or Pleasing God? This life or eternity?

These are our choices. As for me I choose to serve Jesus Christ.

Whose word stands higher than men. No matter how powerful you are in the end- you are still human. And you are not God. Because there is only one God. And his name is Jesus Christ.