Early, ontime, late

In the TV & Film Industry, we have this saying: If you're Early, you're OnTime, If you're, OnTime, you're Late, if you're Late, you're Fired. This should be the same for most job and the mindset of life really.

If you're Early, you are prepared and can sort an issues out ahead of time, what you missed the day or evening before you can fix or organise that morning for your own mindset and for your team. I like to prepare my gear the day or so before for every shoot and I don't sleep much the night before a new job, probably overthinking but then once on the job i'm happy, my mindset is ready for action. It also shows you want to be there and your team, job will respect you for this... we hope.

If you're OnTime, you are there but are probably the last person on your team there and that says hi, whats up, morning. sometimes showing up OnTime is ok and why should you turn up early when you are only getting paid from start to finish time and that's fine but if say you work in a call centre and you turn up at say 9am, you have to turn your laptop on, sign in, be ready for a client to call, but thats client maybe wanted to ring at 9am when your lines are open but had to wait because you couldn't be bothered turning up prepared. Some only do the bare minimum, others do more than, there has to be a happy medium, show willingness and determination to be prepared and ready to go, I'm sure you prepared for your interview and turned up early for it and prepared for hours to get read to go out for drinks with your friends. If you don't like your job, Change It.

If you're Late, well, we all know what constantly being late means. I know a lot of people that are mostly OnTime for work but everything else they're Late. To me that shows I don't care, disrespect, I don't really want to be here be it friends, family, possible new connections. We can't always predict the traffic, public transport (these days with strikes for more pay for doing the bare minimum) but if a journey takes 35 mins, set off 45 minutes before. If you're going to be Late, let someone in your team know traffic is bad, train didn't arrive, it's called respect and being considerate. When you get to the job or friends, say Sorry, Trains, Sorry, where are we upto, what can I do etc etc.

So with that said, turn up Early, be ready to roll OnTime and don't be Late to the game.