hi all,
before you jump to conclusions as to what i mean, let me explain.. im 43 and in my lifetime i have held several jobs, normally not lasting more than a year, because i make a mistake that is too costly to the company, but one job i lasted over 7 years in..
now. in all jobs i have had the same situation..
the first part of the job was data entry, i worked for a brand new telecom company along the lines of BT (in uk) and my job was to enter applciations into the system, consisting of name, address, and telephone numbers and a few other details..
the first day i started i learned the system, and how to enter the names, by the third day, i had tripled the number of applications entered into the system, even today almost 18 years later, my record still stands and has never been beat. I was entering around 350 applications a day, the most that the company has on record bar mine is only around 280.
even when i moved across to credit and collections, i would phone a hundred people in the time it took others to phone maybe 50.
as a car cleaner for a hire company i cleaned more cars than anyone else.
even in my last job, i loaded products onto palletes, and would run two different systems at once, loading two pallets at the same time.
and so on.
in other words i tend to overwork, i think its in order to get praise for my work..
Does this happen to others? or is it just a me thing?
before you jump to conclusions as to what i mean, let me explain.. im 43 and in my lifetime i have held several jobs, normally not lasting more than a year, because i make a mistake that is too costly to the company, but one job i lasted over 7 years in..
now. in all jobs i have had the same situation..
the first part of the job was data entry, i worked for a brand new telecom company along the lines of BT (in uk) and my job was to enter applciations into the system, consisting of name, address, and telephone numbers and a few other details..
the first day i started i learned the system, and how to enter the names, by the third day, i had tripled the number of applications entered into the system, even today almost 18 years later, my record still stands and has never been beat. I was entering around 350 applications a day, the most that the company has on record bar mine is only around 280.
even when i moved across to credit and collections, i would phone a hundred people in the time it took others to phone maybe 50.
as a car cleaner for a hire company i cleaned more cars than anyone else.
even in my last job, i loaded products onto palletes, and would run two different systems at once, loading two pallets at the same time.
and so on.
in other words i tend to overwork, i think its in order to get praise for my work..
Does this happen to others? or is it just a me thing?