twelve missions
One a month, in this order
01
Salary
Knowing what your work has to return
FREE TO START
Starts with what your life actually costs, built from real parts. That number is the floor. Then it establishes what your labour has to return to clear it, weighing pay against the unpaid hours around it and the full cost of showing up. You can finish this with no job at all.
02
Schedule
Your hours and your income
When you work, how predictable it is, and the relationship between your time and what you take home.
03
What you have, what you are building, and what the market currently pays for it.
04
Scope
What your role is and is not
The boundary between the job you agreed to and everything else you get asked to do.
05
Integrity
The record that follows you
Conduct, reliability, and the reputation that moves with you between jobs.
06
Professionalism
How you operate at work
Presenting, communicating, and holding a room.
07
Resources
What work makes available
Benefits, programmes, and the public systems that exist for workers and go unused.
08
Key Performance Indicators
How you are measured
What you are judged on, whether you know it, and whether you can show it.
09
Asking, positioning, and getting the next thing rather than waiting to be noticed.
10
Leadership
Managing and being managed
Both directions, and the transition between them.
11
Information Technology
The digital floor
What any job now assumes you can do without being taught.
12
Networking
How opportunity travels
Who you know, how you meet people on purpose, and how work actually reaches people.