I will begin with a history of his life. At the dawn of his career, I worked in a small firmochki. At the next table sat a colleague 40 years. I tried every day, laid out as I could. It often happened that he came home at 2-3 am. I really wanted to earn a good reputation and a career. And for that, thought it was important to work better than others, making the most. I watched closely as the work progresses from a colleague on the basis of evaluations of their work on the results.
A colleague at this time is in a hurry. Often go out to smoke, and there read a book for half an hour, drinking tea. However, when the deadline approached the job, he was ready. I was nervous that he could not really break away from his performance, and increased their efforts to do the job.
In this mode, I spent about a year, and already having a good reputation, got a job to another job. In his new job, I continued to race again, trying to stand out, which is good I have it turned. However, I began to notice that the dependence of what I earn from the efforts being made are not linear. Each additional ruble gets all the great efforts. And it is traced not only to work, but with a ' shabashkami '. Realizing this fact, I decided to stop the violence on themselves, tied with ' shabashkami ', reduced the burden on working. And something wonderful happened: it was a very small portion is lost revenue, but I got better, fully relax, cope better with work. And then I realized what was the secret of the high performance of colleagues he was able to relax, unwind, intelligently distributing the forces throughout the day.
I began to realize that not to scratch any article of the Labour Code: 8- hour day, hour break, 5 days, 28 days holiday. And now, as he is my former colleague, I prefer to go for tea, if you thought in your head is not. I can see the newsgroup, read the news. There is nothing wrong in terms of my health does not happen, I srednestatichesky performance.
And now I notice is a different picture. Just recently, I worked in a very nice company, surrounded by wonderful people, true professionals. He worked in our group of guy who constantly complained that he did not have time to do. Even at dinner almost did not go. Take work home. What I advised him not to do so in principle, but rather to relax. I myself worked at the same time as usual, quietly distributing their forces, sipping tea. At a regular assessment of the command of my work turned out that my dear ' bustler ' do not me anymore. Our results were equal to.
From my experience I have learned a few rules (by the way, many will say about them, it's all ' old truism '):.
Observe the Labor Code: 8 hours worked, the rest of the rest. Do not ' shabashte ' outside of work, better send all their forces in one direction, reaching the best results in one case, and not scattered across a pile of small dealings.
Do not sit all 8 hours at the computer, take breaks, drink tea and chat with colleagues. If you think not, and it does not sit out. On this occasion, beautifully written Joel Spolsky. Read about his ' flow state ':. http://russian. joelonsoftware. com / Articles / FireAndMotion. html.
Those who say it can work for 8 hours continuously liars. It is proved that more than 4 hours a person is not able to maintain concentration. This is you're probably talking in class life safety in high school, t. to. on this fact, a graph of all the critical essential services. All of this will seem important part of the labor process, but the brain itself is a ' find reasons ' to relax, r. to. in his work slump, and climbed to the fore the secondary issues that are, by and large, and could be postponed, but you are suddenly seemed important for some reason (' not yet forgotten ', ' not yet gone ' and m. n. ).
For knowledge workers, in which the vast majority of IT-specialists, comfortable working conditions are important. The person should be rested, not hungry, with a sufficient wage, that he did not have to think about where to get money. There shall be neither cold nor stuffy, no drafts, dust and dirt. Without external noise and bustle around the. Comfortable chair, good technique. This all is not expensive and the performance is decent. From my own experience I would say that as soon as I went to work from the firm, where practice 'open space', in a firm where the employees do not even own kubikl, and a separate room, then I really saw that much more productive work was. More information here:. http://www. alvosoft. com/itlife/2008/03/blog-post. html.
I also noticed that the best work by those who variously rests: travels to hiking, to resorts, not just entire vacation at the cottage from morning till night weeding the beds.
In general, I wish you a pleasant stay and productive low-paying jobs!.
