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The problems with learning on the job4/17/2023 ![]() Sadly, the world has no patience for slow learners, no matter how truly awesome and intelligent you may be. Suddenly, you can’t even do simple math to dole out change, and the espresso machine becomes as foreign to you as modern technology is to a baby boomer. When there’s a line of busy people waiting on their food, and a frustrated manager breathing down your neck, you just can’t think strait. Not only will your manager be spewing with rage, but so will the impatient customers, who don’t care that you’re basically having a panic attack from all the stress of trying to be fast and efficient like the rest of the world. But when you try to work faster because, you know, your job depends on it, and then you freak out because you just realized that, oh-my-gosh, YOUR JOB DEPENDS ON IT, you just screw yourself over. Your coworkers will chide you for being too slow. As a slow learner, you can’t help but look like an absolute idiot your first week of work, because everything is just moving too fast for you to handle. ![]() You need to be told, two, three times, and even then you need a few days to process that information, let it sink in. But when your mind works at the rate of internet explorer, you can’t help but stall. Working in fast paced jobs like the food industry, you’re expected to know and understand what to do after being told just once (because, come on, it’s so easy, right? Wrong). etc., you pretty much let everyone down by proving that you’re just the opposite when the real work actually starts. The sad thing is, once you ace the interview part of the equation by promising that yes, you are a good worker, and smart and good with people and etc. ![]() How else do you expect to get a job in the first place? No one wants to hire someone who can’t learn “simple” instructions (no, it’s not rocket science, but it might as well be to us slow folk) upon hearing them, and who screws up more than they succeed. Here are five of the main struggles of the slow learner on the job: 1. Having worked five jobs over the past few months, I have come to realize the problems that arise when the world spins too fast for you. But really, when did a tortoise ever have an advantage over a fast and efficient hare? When did slow triumph over quick and capable? In a society where time is currency, where in order to succeed you have to be minutes ahead of the competition, the tortoises don’t stand a chance in the job market. Slow and steady wins the race, as the saying goes.
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