The Korea Times
Your first 100 days at a new job is generally an indicator of how well you are doing in the new position. If you make it in those first three months, it’s likely that you will keep the job. Generally, it takes that long to get a handle on what you are doing — or what you should be doing. In the military we called it “on-the-job-training.” Whether the job is something you went to school for or not, school is almost never like the actual work. Thinking back, often that I never made it to that length of time, sometimes even being terminated within a few days. Sometimes, the termination was because of a personality conflict. Sometimes, I just quit. One professor I worked for disagreed with my point of view on a philosophical issue. The friction had nothing to do with the laboratory work. I just walked out of the lab and never came back, in spite of his continuing attempts to contact me. Of course, the action cost me and I was out of a job. However, like I always say, “I’m not in it for the income, I’m in it for the outcome.” Another reason one may not make it through the 10
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