{"id":1852,"date":"2014-05-26T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2014-05-26T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T01:28:42","slug":"profit-center-based-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/profit-center-based-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit Center Based Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to work that will build a great career,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666666;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalzumeus.com\/2011\/10\/28\/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer\/\">Patrick McKenzie has great advice<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Profit Centers are the part of an organization that bring in the bacon: partners at law firms, sales at enterprise software companies, \u201cmasters of the universe\u201d on Wall Street, etc etc. Cost Centers are, well, everybody else. You really want to be attached to Profit Centers because it will bring you higher wages, more respect, and greater opportunities for everything of value to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gist is that you want your role at the company to correlate with\u00a0revenue generation.<\/p>\n<p>If your role leads\u00a0to more\u00a0revenue, your role will always be in demand. \u00a0Sales functions have so much money allocated into them with the expectation that it is an investment.\u00a0Back office tasks (HR, accounting, etc.)\u00a0are essential, but they do\u00a0not generate gross revenue and are always on the chopping block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to work that will build a great career,\u00a0Patrick McKenzie has great advice: Profit Centers are the part of an organization that bring in the bacon: partners at law firms, sales at enterprise software companies, \u201cmasters of the universe\u201d on Wall Street, etc etc. Cost Centers are, well, everybody else. You really want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1132,1131,327,1127,1128,1130,1129],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-advice","tag-career","tag-hn","tag-mckenzie","tag-patio","tag-profit-center","tag-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}