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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Michael Precker
Feb. 27--Your workplace may be nothing like that jungle island or the Australian outback, where duplicity and chicanery reign as Survivor contestants try to avoid that fateful layoff at the end of every show.
Then again, a lot of workers have been getting their torches snuffed out lately as their corporate tribe shrinks. Should you be playing your own Survivor game? Even if you're safe for now, should you be getting ready for your next game?
"Most people tend to have two gears when it comes to their career," says Bob Rosner, who writes a syndicated column called Working Wounded and runs a Web site by the same name.
"They have the famished gear, and they have the stuffed gear. That means either they're looking everywhere and talking to everybody, or they're doing nothing. And neither of those makes sense as a long-term proposition."
In a world where the old notion of loyal workers holding lifetime jobs is disappearing, Mr. Rosner says, you need a gear permanently in the middle.
"You always have to be a little bit hungry,"...
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