Is Your Sense Of Entitlement Ruining Your Career?

Source: CBS News

Do you sometimes feel the need to get unrestricted favors from everyone around you, be it from the boss or your co workers? Well, this could be ruining your career in a way

There are three things you need to have or be to be successful in your chosen career.

1. A good relationship with your superiors.
You’re not going to get good promotions, or praise unless you can maintain a good relationship with your boss and your boss’s boss and your boss’s peers.

2. A good relationship with your co-workers.
Most of the corporate world is a team sport, and you need the support of your coworkers to be successful. Sure, there are times when you’ll be the favored child and your coworkers will resent you as you climb the ladder, but your time at work will be miserable.

3. A top performer.
Even with a bad boss your best chance of success is to actually be good at what you do. And not just good, better than other people. You can’t just meet expectations, you need to exceed them.

A problem many people are facing is that they feel entitled to the love and favor of their superiors and peers, and that if they bother to show up to work and do the bare minimum, they should be promoted. This sense of entitlement can have a detrimental effect on your career.

Even if, morally, you should be entitled to congratulations, praise and jobs regardless of appearance, sitting back and expecting this will prohibit you from succeeding in your career.

It’s nice to talk about an ideal world where we’re all judged on our work performance, but we have to live in the world that exists. And in this world, if your expectation that your 40 extra Kilograms entitles you to be a protected class, you’re going to be miserable when you don’t receive it. Plus, you’re ignoring a very real problem that you could correct if you wanted too.

Being “entitled” to be treated differently than you are being treated can absolutely ruin your career. You must deal with the reality that exists. And in that reality, coworkers don’t appreciate others’ long leaves of absence, bosses don’t reward bare minimum performance, and your appearance affects how others perceive you.

It doesn’t really matter if such perceptions are “right” or “fair.” It matters that they are the reality we face. If you feel entitled to anything other than reality, you’re damaging your own career.

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