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Chemical engineer. But the same applies to any job where you need to come up with some sort of solution that is not already known or readily available. Anything creative really.
So if you never do anything but look busy, you won't get fired?
No. That is not my point. I said that the most important thing is making the boss think you are productive/busy, regardless of that actually being the case. A boss can't and/or does not use objective data to assess productivity. At least I have never seen that anywhere.
That does not mean that you do nothing. It just means that you can appear far more productive/busy/important/... when that is far from the truth.
I don't know what to tell you. In my experience, in my line of work, if you show what you can do, you become valuable. If you slack off, you don't. Showing what you can do will get you ahead. That's my point based on empirical evidence I've seen and done first hand, and that's the original point you were challenging. I've answered it now, so there. 👍
Of course you have answered my question, no worries. I find it odd that our experiences are so different. Like I know nobody who stayed at a company and got anywhere, everyone always has to go somewhere else to get higher pay etc. And at the same time, companies complain that if they train someone, they just go to a different company. Like are they best dumb? Really odd reality we are living in.
Well, I didn't really specify that you would get ahead at the same company necessarily. And by getting ahead wouldn't necessarily mean a raise either.
Getting ahead could mean that you get a good recommendation for when you want to move to a new place of work, good things to put on your CV, or even be the one who isn't let go during a downsizing. You make yourself valuable, is all.