I’ve been asked recently to elaborate on the need to pay off in a manner that’s fair. I’ve been asked if I’ve been intentionally trying to get the same type of reward from my hard work and accomplishments, to which I’m always hesitant. To this question I have one answer, but I don’t think anyone really wants to hear it.
Well, its a matter of how much your work has gone toward the thing you want and if you can get the same reward for it. I know a lot of people that spend their off time doing things they enjoy, and then go home and sit around and wait for their reward. This is definitely not the case for everyone. I think the trick is to make the work you do meaningful, to the point that it has value.
What I have found is that the people who get the most payoff from their work are the ones who are least involved in the work itself. This is because they are the ones who are most interested in the reward, not the work itself. When you take work that is mostly about the reward, the whole thing gets a bit of a grind. It would be easy to let your ego get in the way of doing the work, but this is what keeps my work worthwhile.
This is one thing that seems to be a constant struggle for me. I work on a variety of projects, ranging from one-person jobs to teams of small or large teams. Sometimes I find that I can accomplish more in a day or week than I could in a year. Sometimes I find that I can accomplish more in a month than I could in a year.
This is a tough one. I have worked with people that have been on the same project for years. They are so much more experienced than I am that I feel like I should give them more credit than I would if they were just starting out. On the other hand, I have worked with people whose experience was only a few days or weeks of work. I feel like that is just about as much credit as I could possibly be giving them.
In terms of a project’s development stage, time for payoff questions is a very important part of the game. In fact, on most projects, there’s no sure thing. The payoff questions are the things that define where you are in the project’s development. They determine if the development is complete, so you should never be afraid of those questions. In addition, they determine how long it’s going to take the project to complete.
On my project, the payoff questions are “Do we have enough funding for our project or not?” and “Will we finish this before it’s too late?” I would imagine that the answer to the more specific questions will determine if we go ahead with development or not.
Like, you might be saying that you’re going to get paid for every question you answer. And the answer to that question may not matter to you. The payoff question may be the only thing that matters to you.
If you were to ask what is the best way to get money from a new website after you started your project, it would be to ask yourself: are you going to build a new website or is something you want to do? Or is it just going to have to wait until you finish the project? You could be right about that. And I think there are probably multiple reasons that it’s not working for you.
