| You help maintain a system that does X. You do good work. System X is terminated. You are redundant. You are let go. Your routine of waking every day and going to work, of getting paid every two weeks and spending that pay, is gone. Instead, have an important hand in many projects. Don't just be tied to X, also do Y and Z and some of G and L. Have so many projects your own boss isn't sure what all you do, just that you do a lot and what you do is important and scary. Be unpredictable. If you were to be forcibly transferred to a new division, they should be afraid you might leave. If they tried to cut your pay or demand more hours, they should be afraid of that. Fear and unpredictability are often the same thing. If you were to be terminated tomorrow, you should be in a place where you may go nap on a beach for six months or write a book poorly or take up meditating. The threat of losing your job should sound like a nice relief and not a threat. This requires controlling your money and your money not controlling you - golden handcuffs are real if you let them be. |