Come Early Leave Late is Ancient Advice

Name: Come Early Leave Late is Ancient Advice
Uploaded: 2023-08-01T18:44:51+00:00
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Channel: Alli Peck
Description: Alli Peck (creator, age 34) discusses the career maxim "come early, leave late"—advice she says was given by the prior generation and that she followed…

1 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Alli Peck (creator, age 34) discusses the career maxim "come early, leave late"—advice she says was given by the prior generation and that she followed during her 10-year engineering and program management career in medical device. She notes large audience engagement (the earlier related video drew ~20,000 comments) and argues the COVID-19 pandemic changed many workers' attitudes by exposing job insecurity and how companies value employees. The clip frames a question about whether traditional work-ethic norms should change and promises a follow-up video on work–life balance.

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August 1, 2023.

About 20,000 comments.

34 years old.

10 years as an engineer and a program manager.

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You should be one of the first people in the office and one of the last to leave if you are in the first five years of your career and here's why. Essentially it's because you have something to prove. You do not yet have a decade of experience under your belt. Your work doesn't speak for itself yet, but your work ethic can. But how am I still supposed to create work life balance for myself? That I will go over in the next video.
That video has 20,000 comments on a different platform. If I had to sum up most of the feedback on that video, it is that people are not willing to go above and beyond anymore. Especially for a company that not paying them what they're worth, not making them feel valued and willing to replace them when it's convenient for the company. I was given this advice by my parents generation to give you some context. I'm 34 years old. It served me well in my career. I worked in medical device for 10 years as an engineer and a program manager. And to be perfectly honest with you, I get joy out of giving it my all. At work, in my personal life, with my hobbies, my relationships. And for a while I wondered what happened? What happened to people? And then it hit me. A lot of it was the pandemic. It showed people how short life was and it showed people that when companies did mass layoffs and called some people essential workers and some non essential, it really taught us how not valuable we are. What I want to know is can we change this or should we change it or should we just go with it? What do you think?