How to impress superiors without being a brown noser?

I've written quite a few letters for my tech's grad school applications. The only thing needed to impress me is to do your job.

Just continue having drive and motivation. Your colleagues are noticing you being motivated, so your superiors are seeing it too. Don't fall for the peer pressure of your colleagues and stop doing your best because they are trying to put a stigma on going above and beyond. Even help your colleagues when you see they need help with something they are working on. That will also help them understand that you doing your best is who you are and not someone who just wants recognition for awards. It will take time for them to understand who you are, so don't give up.

Keep doing what you are doing!!! If you don't have people envious of you, then you probably are performing on the same acceptable level that they are. Some people are incapable of accepting the fact that some of us want to do more than the minimum. In the end your hard work does not make them look bad, it is their lack of motivation to keep up with you that makes them look bad.

Keep doing extra work and busting your butt. If brown nosing leads to success, more rank, more rewards, higher pay, etc then why would you not want to "brown nose" as they say?

The way I look at it is do what you need to do to get ahead. If you do the work that is required and then some who is your dupervisor going to think about when Sailor of the Qaurter or something like that comes up. You can sink back and just go with the flow but that isn't going to get you ahead.

ITT: "There's no such thing as brown nosing, bro! Just suck the dick! Fuck your buddies over! We all do it!"

People will hate on you when you do things like this, but like I've seen elsewhere on this question, have you ever seen people hating on those that aren't successful?

Keep up the good work.

Sycophant, brown noser, apple polisher, what ever you call it Just do your job at a high level. Proficiently do you job task with low error and then develop your skill set to handle tasks of increasing responsibility and take them on with your own chutzpah.

They can't call you a brown noser if they're dead.. just saying..

But seriously, ignore them

Don't be first, don't be last, and never volunteer.



If you want to adopt this "conscript" mindset and serve out an uneventful tour, stop reading now. If you want to move forward and up, the only thing in that sentence you should take to heart is "Don't be last".
Do your best EVERY time to be first. Volunteer for everything you can. The harder it is, the better. If others think this makes you a "brown noser" I have news for them. It doesn't. (Don't offer to polish your Chief's shoes...that does). This makes you a go-getter, and you will eventually be noticed for it. Who cares what they think anyway? When their four years is up, they will be gone anyway. Where will you be? Stuck where you are if you listened to them. Moving up, and on to bigger and better things if you take them with a grain of salt and a smile.