Yes, we live in the age of competition. It is the fact of life and we cannot deny or run away from it. Today you are a good software engineer but if you remain only a “good one” and not a “skilled one”, you will get easily replaced by someone who is good along with skilled and that is the kind of rat race we live in.
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I will cite my life examples here to make you understand what I am trying to convey through this write-up. I started my career as a blogger for an educational website, the boss of this company was horrible to be very frank. But still, I continued for 5 years tolerating all the mental torture of living up to his unrealistic expectations, all because I was a good person who wanted work at that time in my life. Then a day came when a blogger who was 5 years younger than me, with loads of writing experience for news websites and good communication skills, took over my position in that company and I was laid off without notice and even experience certificate. I just didn’t fight back because I didn’t feel the need to do so. See here “my good self” always came in the way of my progress.
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However, things changed after I took a break from my career and started focusing on what I am good at like my writing skills, learning skills, pursued some good courses in writing, women empowerment, business management, etc. all in the one year break from blogging officially. I got placed in a very good company with a good starting package. I felt grateful that at least the hard efforts I put in the early years of my career are paying me off. But again the office politics came in, where I was blamed for the errors that I didn’t do by my immediate Editor as she was feeling jealous of my knowledge and work. I quit that job again due to partiality and all the negativity that was creeping up in my life.
I then decided that I am the “good self” – values like compassion, patience, understanding, empathy, etc., and will continue to be so irrespective of how many competitive or troubling situations I am put into. Then I decided to go for freelance writing and see here I have completed a year of this journey with the same old good values that are also helping me to make a living.
In this life, you will always meet people who are jealous of you, hate you, and want to take revenge on you because they just didn’t get the blessings that you have but remember to always believe in your good self and ignore such people for your better mental health. Toxicity in personal or professional life should be dealt with in a peaceful and calm manner as it shows who you are in reality to the world.
