Comments on: Invest in Yourself http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2007/03/15/invest-in-yourself/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:37:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: voodoo http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2007/03/15/invest-in-yourself/#comment-430 voodoo Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:56:12 +0000 http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/2007/03/15/invest-in-yourself/#comment-430 I have a manager that doesn't really invest herself in my professional development, not that she doesn't want to, it's just low on her radar. Out of my own frustration over this, I set about going to all the trainings that were relevant (and some that were not so relevant) to my position. I figure HR puts out all these events, might as well take advantage of it, right? The pay off has been that I definitely have grown professionally, but also developed an excellent network of colleagues that are like-minded that I probably wouldn't have met up with otherwise. The same goes for personal dev stuff. I don't think it's been hard to build this into my life; I realized that no one is going to look after my interests except for me, and that I owe it to myself to continue to learn and grow. I look at my colleagues who don't challenge themselves and stay stagnant and shudder at the thought of ever being in that position. That's motivation enough. I have a manager that doesn’t really invest herself in my professional development, not that she doesn’t want to, it’s just low on her radar. Out of my own frustration over this, I set about going to all the trainings that were relevant (and some that were not so relevant) to my position. I figure HR puts out all these events, might as well take advantage of it, right? The pay off has been that I definitely have grown professionally, but also developed an excellent network of colleagues that are like-minded that I probably wouldn’t have met up with otherwise. The same goes for personal dev stuff.

I don’t think it’s been hard to build this into my life; I realized that no one is going to look after my interests except for me, and that I owe it to myself to continue to learn and grow. I look at my colleagues who don’t challenge themselves and stay stagnant and shudder at the thought of ever being in that position. That’s motivation enough.

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