Andy Wang

The reframe, your job is to get a better job.

And Scott wrote, don't confuse your job with the work your employer wants you to do.

The boss might want you to process all the pending orders by quitting time, but your job is to get a better job.

Everything else you do to service that reframe.

If it doesn't help you leave the job you are in an upgrade, it might not be worth doing.

But don't worry that this line of thinking feels sociopathic.

Doing a good job on your assigned duties is a way to look good for promotions.

The reframe reminds us that to be in a continuous job search mode, including on the first day of work at the new job.

If that sounds unethical, consider that your boss would drop you in a second if business required it.

In a free market, you can do almost anything that is normal and legal.

Changing jobs for whatever reason you want is normal.

Your employer's job is to take care of the shareholders.

It's your job to take care of you.

That doesn't always mean act selfishly, but if being generous with your time and energy seems as if it will have the better long-term payoff, do that.

Your employer might want to frame employees as, quote, a family, unquote, which is common.

But that's to divert you from the fact that they can fire you at will.

They don't want you to know that you have the same power to fire them.

Part of the job of leadership is convincing you that what is good for the leader is good for you.

Sometimes that is the case, but keep your priorities straight.

You are number one.