I had a terrible experience yesterday with a person. I had to work at 9pm – 11pm after an 8 hour day yesterday. I was deploying new software I had written for a while now. When I get to production, it doesn’t work. It turns out somebody I requested to do work over a month ago didn’t do it. So we got them online and they took the 5 minutes to finally do it, but they didn’t just apologize and do their job. They had the guts to act like it was a burden to them to get their job done.
Don’t be that guy. If you find yourself in situation after situation where you seem to always be called to finish your job, you are terrible at your job. Fix it. You should be appreciative that you have a job that allows you to be needed. Don’t just take this view about your job though. Take that view about life. Be appreciative of being needed.
Make sure you are serving, not taking from others. Don’t be the guy that complains when they have to do their job at 10:30pm because you failed to do it over the past 30+ days. Take the time to evaluate you motivations. Be the best at serving the people who need you, and do great work.
I want to make games, not just because I want to play them. I want to make games to actually make people happy. If there is money in it, great. If I get enjoyment out of the game too, great. Truly though, if I make people feel something that makes them smile, cry, laugh, or angry, I would have served well. Let me know how I can better serve you today.
