Benefits are not limited to what puts more money in your multiple bank accounts, but what makes your quality of life improve. Since we spend approximately one third of our day at work, it’s important to make sure that our workplaces offer us the benefits we want and need.
To succeed in your career you need to make sure that you are replaceable. Why? To be able to climb the corporate ladder. The best way to explain is a quick story on why you want to be replaceable. I should say that this isn’t first hand, but a good story nonetheless.
There was a software team working a very advanced product. Over the years, supporting it was becoming more and more difficult. A second team was added overseas to aid in support. The first team balked! They made the code more and more obscure to make themselves irreplaceable. The new team wasn’t able to work on it as easily. They created job security, but this turned out to be a bad thing…
