Hey! this is Overpass Insights my name is Eric and I'll make apps now today I want to talk about how
your job description is irrelevant
alright so another nice day, another day out on a walk, so today I want to talk a little bit
about job descriptions, it's something I've heard come up a few times recently
and it's something that I've heard throughout my career, this is not part of my job description
all that kind of stuff most of the time when we talk about job descriptions it's usually usually
in the context of getting a new job where the job description is important or actually
being in the job where it's not so important at least I've never considered to be that important
a lot of the time you probably have experienced this if you worked in well in any kind of
company not just a software development team where somebody just loses their patience and says this
is not my job description you know this is not in my job description, I shouldn't be doing this
but it's something especially as a recession looms and a lot of us are going to be
trying to be one of those ones that aren't on the chopping block trying to be the ones who are who
are kept, you have to stop thinking in that kind of mentality see I have never been fired, never
been made redundant never laid off never let go from a contract or a job in my entire life and
one of the reasons for that is that I do whatever it takes you know it's there's been times where
I started answering the support desk calls right just you know I was in a company there's a port
person left and I thought well screw it you know somebody's got to answer that phone the
other developers weren't going to touch it so I started picking it upright and then after a while
you know they started thinking well eric's really really good at this let's make him the permanent
support guy and to which I thought no thanks and at that point then it was like no I'm not
I'm your at the time I was a web developer I'm your guys' web developer yeah this was like
a while back way before apps I'm the web developer so you're gonna have to find another support
person and I said oh yeah yeah okay we will and of course they didn't I was too good at it I mean I
was like yeah, I was really getting good at it so eventually that's what i had to make decision to
leave that's when it was like, you know well yeah this is not what I signed up for, but ultimately
what I signed up for is a relevant a year or two years into the job it's like not what you
you know what did I sign up for it's or what did I agree to it's like, what do I feel like doing now
right one of the things is I never really stayed in a job more than two years there was one
there was one contract where I was there like four years there was another one I was there two years
and I went back and did another couple of years like three years later but for me, it's always
improving my skills and what do I want to be doing now that job description is a lot like the cv a cv
or resume has one job which is to get you into an interview once you're in the interview then
you know the cv is irrelevant right you might talk you might use that as a reference point but
then you got to be able to tell your story as if they've never even seen it I think the same with
a job description your job description or the description of the job you actually apply for
is only relevant in the acquisition of that job when you're actually going for us and yes i have
these requirements um you know this is kind of what I'd like to do I like all these perks
yeah etc but you know things change economies change you know anybody who's ever hired somebody
knows they want that key player that i always call the utility infielder in baseball the
person who could play any position you put them into that position and they're like
I'll fill this gap while it needs to be filled right all the belief it's not
fulfilling to you you might fill that gap until it's time to leave and find something else but
you know you want to be that person who I think what I'm trying to say is never be the person that
says oop this is not in my job description I'm a database guy, I'm not a gooey guy I'm not
a server guy I'm not an infrastructure guy I'm not a whatever I'm not a support desk guy right
anyway let me know if you guys agree with me or disagree with something come up a few times before
and I just hate that I hate people who complain about their job description, the jobs description
after you're hired is irrelevant anyway thanks everybody for liking the liking this video if
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a great day hope you have a great week that's it for today I'll talk to you again next time