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No employer is gonna pay you 110% for going extra hard. All the profits from your extra work will just be enjoyed by your supervisor, helping coworkers and giving extra effort comes back to bite you in the ass eventually, whether it’s your 110% becoming expected, or being so good that any mistake you make will be seen as a big deal
There are actual good employers out there. My last one gave me a sizeable raise out of nowhere because I had been working my ass off on a project.
But the only reason I was working my ass off was because they were good employers. They operated like a startup despite being in business since the 80s.
Then Musk fucked everything up.
But even before that, at the beginning of my IT career I went from a customer service agent to senior systems engineer in 5 years because I worked hard and took on projects that no one wanted to do.
The key is knowing when to put in the work and when to put in just enough to keep your job.