| Tip 38 | Change the World |
The worst thing anyone at work can ask about you is “What does he (or she) do?” Having to ask this question means that they don’t know what you’ve done.
It’s sad, but I don’t know what most of the people I’ve worked with in big-company IT have done. People just don’t think that way. They go to work, do their assigned thing, and go home. There’s no lasting impact, other than the trail of code, documents, and e-mail they leave behind them.
That’s what happens when you show up to work without a mission. You just sit around waiting to be told what to do. And, when you do what people tell you, the only people who know what you’ve done afterward are the ones who asked you to do it. That’s fine if you want to work in retail ...
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