Thats not my job
is what people say when they are given some work that is out of their job description. First of, your job description is not precise, you get an overall picture of what all will you be responsible for, mind it! its just an overall picture i.e. its not complete. There is no end to the kind of work that will come your way, some employees just cant take it, and they resists doing it, for a simple reason that its not something they do as a project manager/project developer/project engineer...but I say, it IS your job, its just that you don't like doing it, or its something really new to you and you gotta do a lot of ground work to take up that work i.e. extra work.
Whatever it is, you gotta welcome all kinds of work that is even remotely associated with your interests, I am not saying learn everything - it's your right to ignore things you don't like and just stick to what you like - but what I am trying to say is, you can give it a shot, it doesn't have to be that difficult, one new thing leads to another and who knows, you end up learning something you never thought you could.
All in all, no one's denying that sometimes we are assigned really uninteresting work, so what? that's also a part of your job, I am sure even in the most coveted film industry, there is no work profile that has everything good about it, there will always be certain things that people hate doing. Shit happens ;-). Take this advise form Brian Tracey, this applies to all that work which you hate doing but you know you have to get it done.
If you have to eat a frog, don't look at it. If you have to eat 3 of them, eat the ugliest one first.
Whatever it is, you gotta welcome all kinds of work that is even remotely associated with your interests, I am not saying learn everything - it's your right to ignore things you don't like and just stick to what you like - but what I am trying to say is, you can give it a shot, it doesn't have to be that difficult, one new thing leads to another and who knows, you end up learning something you never thought you could.
All in all, no one's denying that sometimes we are assigned really uninteresting work, so what? that's also a part of your job, I am sure even in the most coveted film industry, there is no work profile that has everything good about it, there will always be certain things that people hate doing. Shit happens ;-). Take this advise form Brian Tracey, this applies to all that work which you hate doing but you know you have to get it done.
If you have to eat a frog, don't look at it. If you have to eat 3 of them, eat the ugliest one first.
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