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+title: Do What Others Won't
+date: 2020-01-22
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+When I was interviewing contractors to refinish the wood floors of my 70 year old house, they told me:  
+"This job is too dangerous.  
+Here's a card for the only guy crazy enough to do it."  
+I hired that guy and paid him twice as much as the others estimated.
+
+When I was changing careers, I followed that contractor's lead:  
+Do what others won't.
+
+"Shit work" is low-stakes way to showcase your dependability.  
+If things go well, you're a savior.  
+If things go sideways, well, you were the last hope anyway.
+
+Career capital is measured in dependability.  
+It takes a lifetime to be trusted with work everyone wants.  
+But it only takes a few wins to be trusted with work nobody wants.
+
+In my career, that leverage was CSS.  
+Nobody wanted to own CSS in 2010.  
+By becoming dependable, in a job nobody wanted, it was only a few months before I was in planning meetings with developers 10 years my senior.
+
+There's always work to be found "beneath" others.  
+If you do your job right, you won't be "beneath" anyone for long.
+
+🤴 chan
+(Proverbs 22:29)[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+22:29&version=ESV]