There are some actions that smart people will not do in their career. Unfortunately, you may feel it is fine to perform those actions. Look at the career myths below.
1st career myth, perform extremely well in the job and you will be promoted very fast. This is not true. If you perform extremely well in your job, you will become the expert in that area. When your boss wants to promote you, he / she will think twice. This is because there will be no other people able to perform the job as excellent as you. Therefore, it is better to let you stay at what you are doing now. This is especially true if what you are doing is important. Another reason is that your boss may jealous you if you perform extremely well. Your boss may afraid you will replace him / her. Of course, your boss does not want you to become his / her boss. Boss reporting to previous subordinate is very embarrassing. So, perform well in your job but not extremely well.
2nd career myth, the more you do, the more capable you are. This is absolutely wrong. The more you do, the more mistakes you will make. When you do more, no body will appreciate you. When you make a mistake, everybody will remember it. The more you do, the less capable you are because you make more mistakes. Everybody will label you as mistake maker.
3rd career myth, the last person leaving the office is the busiest person. This is completely incorrect. In some companies, there is a culture where no body wants to become first person to go back after work. This is because the staff afraid that the boss will give additional tasks. So, everybody is waiting for each other to go back first. Some people will do they personal thing and pretend busy. Sometimes, boss will wait for subordinates to go back first. On the other hand, subordinates will wait for boss to go back.
4th career myth, pursue for long term big profit. This is not a good direction. Your performance is evaluated yearly. Therefore, you must have some good results within a year. Boss always want good results in short period. To make it happened, you have to focus on short term small profit.
5th career myth, the more money / wage you get, the more work you need to do. This is extremely wrong. People who get the high pay may have little work to do. As you can see in the organization, senior managers are the people who do the talking. The implementation of what their talk will be done by their subordinates. Anyway, senior managers make more money. It is possible to make more money without dirty the hands.
6th career myth, it is fine to temporary take up the task done by other people. This is not fine. If you take up the task, then it is very difficult to hand it to other people. When the time passed, no body will remember the task was originally done by whom. Therefore, you have to perform the task until you leave the organization.
