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.But when the shy, bookish type who preferred ballet to baseball 50 THE CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDEstarted out, he was hired by a major Wall Street brokerage firm as ananalyst.Eager to pore over company records and unearth some greatstocks for the firm s clients, he found himself at sea in a rowdy cor-porate culture where employees were expected to go out for drinksevery night and mingle with the firm s customers.During work hours,the air turned blue with obscenities as traders and brokers lost moneyin the stock market.It was a chaotic workplace environment, and Flaherty did his bestto assimilate.But within a year he gave up the job and went to workfor an insurance firm that marketed variable annuities to customersçøa workplace where an atmosphere of calm prevailed and where he wasmuch happier. Looking back, I wish that I d done some due diligence andfound out what it was like to actually work at a place like my old bro-kerage firm, he recalls. I had friends who d had the experience andwarned me about it, but I didn t want to listen.I was blinded a bit bythe money and the challenges of working on Wall Street.I found outtoo late it wasn t for me. Flaherty quickly recognized that, while money and prestigeare alluring reasons to work for a company, if it is a company thatdoesn t fit your personality, everything else becomes secondary. 4Easy Ways to Derail Your Careero paraphrase political humorist Finley Peter Dunne s Mr.TDooley, career advancement ain t beanbag.All Mr.Dunne issaying is that politics, like the workplace, is no place for the thin-skinned and the shirkers.You ve got to produce, and you have tobe prepared to wear your work ethic on your shoulder.No question about it, throughout your career, you are going tobe judged by others bosses, coworkers, and clients about whichkind of person you are a lifter or a leaner. The answer goes a long way in determining how successful yourcareer will be and how happy you will be with your life.PresidentJohn F.Kennedy was thinking of lifters and leaners when he famouslytold Americans, Ask not what your country can do for you, ask whatyou can do for your country. In other words, society doesn t owe youa living.In fact, you owe society the best effort you can give.51,Copyright 2003 by Brian O Connell.Click Here for Terms of Use. 52 THE CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDEDon t be the person who believes that your parents, the gov-ernment, a corporation, or anyone else owes you a living.The per-son who thinks that he can gain a livelihood without hard work willwake up one day to find himself working for another person who feltthat nobody owed him a living and therefore earned the right to haveothers work for him.Companies don t want people like this.In fact, they ll go out oftheir way to get rid of leaners.The good news is that they ll also goout of their way to reward lifters.ARE YOU A LIFTER OR A LEANER?It s easy to separate lifters from leaners:The lifter is always a part of the answer.The leaner is always a part of the problem.The lifter always has a program.The leaner always has an excuse.The lifter says, Let me do it for you. The leaner says, That s not my job. The lifter sees an answer for every problem.The leaner sees a problem in every answer.The lifter says, It may be difficult, but it s possible. The leaner says, It may be possible, but it s too difficult. This chapter isn t about lifters it s about leaners.Sure, I drather spend time talking about how to achieve and get ahead after THE CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDE 53all, this is what this book is about.But part of achieving is recogniz-ing the kinds of things that can keep you from achieving.Things like tardiness, unkempt appearance, surliness to yourcoworkers and customers, passivity, and more.These are at the topof the list of things that can ruin your career.Not only that they canget you fired, too
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