Map Out A Long-Term Strategy For Your Career

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Have you ever stopped for a second and thought about all of the things you do at work in a week? There are some tasks most of us need to do to be successful at our jobs. But do you also find yourself doing other tasks like administrative work, planning and setting up for parties, or training new employees? And have these responsibilities started to take over your work days? If so, you’re not alone. These types of tasks are called “non-promotable tasks” and women volunteer for them far more often than men. Dorie Clark’s new book, The Long Game: How To Be A Long-Term Thinker In A Short-Term World delves into how the little tasks we do day to day at work may be harming our long-term career strategy. Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 02:57: Busyness as an Anesthetic 07:42: Defining Long-Term and Short-Term Thinking 14:56: The Importance of Saying No 18:32: Optimizing for Interesting 25:56: Career Waves and Making Smart Choices 28:51: Conclusion Takeaways: Non-promotable tasks, such as administrative work and planning office parties, can take up valuable time and prevent you from focusing on tasks that align with your long-term career goals. It is important to recognize and address overworking as a coping mechanism. Long-term thinking involves considering the big picture and making choices that optimize for interesting and meaningful work. Saying no can be challenging, but it is important to set boundaries and prioritize tasks that align with personal and professional goals. Asking important questions, such as the total cost and physical/emotional impact of a task, can help evaluate requests and make informed decisions. Navigating different phases of a career involves transitioning between learning, sharing, connecting, and reaping phases, and being willing to disrupt oneself to avoid stagnation. Have a question for us? Write in at [email protected]. Join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! The HerMoney with Jean Chatzky podcast is sponsored by Edelman Financial Engines. The podcast team and its host are neither employees nor clients of EFE, however, the show does receive fixed compensation and is a paid endorser and therefore has an incentive to endorse EFE and its planners. To learn more about the sponsorship, please visit PlanEFE.com/HerMoney. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on our podcast, and to learn more about Airwave, head to www.airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Hey everyone, I'm Jean Chatsky. Thanks so much for joining me today on her money
0:46.3	where we talk about personal finance and how money touches everything in our
0:51.0	lives. Have you ever just stopped for a second, thought about all of the
0:56.7	things that you do at work within the course of a single week.
1:02.7	There are some tasks most of us need to do
1:05.2	in our day to day to be successful at our jobs,
1:08.4	responding to emails, prepping for or attending meetings or zooms, writing proposals, creating presentations.
1:17.0	But do you also find yourself doing other things, tasks, like administrative work, planning, and setting up for office parties,
1:27.0	training new employees, and have these responsibilities started to take over your work days?
1:35.6	If so, you are not alone.
1:38.1	These types of tasks have been coined non-promotable tasks.
1:45.0	researcher Linda Babcock found that women volunteer for them far more often than men.
1:51.2	And if we don't volunteer, we're asked to take them on more frequently and are more likely to say
1:56.2	yes when asked. By doing this, we are giving ourselves less time to take on
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