Career Advice for Cubicle Warriors

I advocate for the worker who toils away in the corporate cubicle. You want to do your job well. You want to enjoy what you do. You want to live for your family and not your job or your employer.

To accomplish these goals, you need to follow the footsteps of the Cubicle Warrior — a person fighting to get the work and performance review ratings they deserve. Work becomes focused on your personal goals and aspirations rather than getting ahead at any cost. You fight for you.

This isn’t a theory site; it is a “nuts and bolts” career site. My first eye-opening experience as a newly minted manager long ago was how poorly the people on my team executed the basics of their careers — performance reviews, goal setting, task management, business networking, handling interviews and interview questions. Later in my career, not much had changed even though the workplace has dramatically changed.

You can’t ignore investing in your career any longer. There are too many layoffs and reorganizations with change coming at you in fire hose volumes. Now all jobs are temporary and the only true question we can ask is this: “when will my current job end?” It will end, you know, and you need to get ready to navigate the treacherous shoals that is now a career.

Cube Rules is all about supporting you in:

• landing a job
• succeeding on the job
• and building a successful career

Cubicle Warriors give themselves the best possible advantage in the workplace.  But it takes work, vigilance, preparation — and a great mentor — when you wage war to get the work you want and deserve.

The workplace has become a chaos-infested place where layoffs, reorganizations, managers and teams are in a constant state of upheaval.

Welcome to my world. Let me show you how to become a Cubicle Warrior.