One of the best career moves you can make is completely under your control.

Too often, we worry about our career path (if you are wondering about this too much, you are not on it, BTW), instead of making the most of each job experience we have. It is enormously gratifying to watch our own workforce, made up mostly of people in their 20’s, finally seemingly ‘get it’ and actually get engaged in the work here.

The best career move you can make is TO GET ENGAGED AT YOUR JOB. If you can do this, or learn to do this, you will OWN the world of work. In short, in the words of a young kid I know…U ROK!

Here are some tests to see if YOU are engaged at your work.

1. Do you care enough about ‘the work’ to NOT care who gets credit?

2. Do you go out of your way to help others, with absolutely no thought of getting something in return? You are doing it solely to help a co-worker and the company.

3. When times get tough, or you are confronted with an issue or problem that you cannot solve, what is your reaction? Do you give up?

4. Do you do the work assigned to you but do with it with such goodwill, creativity and positive attitude that even the most mundane tasks get completed with flair?

5. Are you a clock watcher?

6. Do you have fun at work? Enjoy being there?

7. Do you make suggestions? Are you always thinking of new ways to improve the business, even if it is not in your area?

8. Do you talk about your work at home or to your friends?  Do your parents say “Boy! Johnny really likes it there at ______!”  Are your friends envious?

9.  Do you attract more work?

10. Do you seek to set a new standard at your job?

Make it a point to get more engaged at work. After all, you already spend 8 hours a day there, why not make it the best 8 hours you can?