Jon WorthJan 26

How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem? 🤔

It's not “I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member” but “Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to work for them, as there’s nothing I know they don’t know already”

But I do need to find paid work, somehow. Question is how and for whom?

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How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem?

"I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member" Groucho Marx is supposed to have said. And I have come to the view that I am facing something similar in my railway work. "Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to [...]

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@jon (Replying on the pitch before reading the post)

If companies only hired irreplaceable people with exclusive knowledge, the companies would be in serious trouble once a person is sick, quits, etc. That's sounds like terrible management and a recipe for disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

However, what any person can bring is skills, experience, time, etc. And a unique perspective. Things that a company doesn't have: without people it's just an empty shell that only has belongings.

Bus factor - Wikipedia

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