Monetizing Life Versus Creating Value

[TexasTowelie]

By Carol Morgan

Because my business is career counseling, I tend to view a great deal through that prism. Prism or not, it’s a fact that career decision making involves far more than choosing a profession based upon a money exchange for services rendered.

A career choice which focuses only upon YOU and your needs eventually becomes empty and unsatisfying. Work has no meaning at all unless it creates value. The best careers are those in which the person believes in the value of what they are doing or selling.

You don't have to be a "do-gooder" to create value; just the realization that every career choice affects others in some way. A receptionist who answers the phone can make me want to do business with a certain store—or NOT. My doctor affects my health. My accountant affects my financial consequences. Every SUCCESSFUL career has some element of social consciousness involved in it.

When one’s self-interest and social good meet, everyone is happy; everyone benefits.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2013-06-22/monetizing-life-versus-creating-value .

[font color=green]Carol is an excellent writer and ran for the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat in one of the reddest areas of Texas.[/font]

[canoeist52]

1. Thanks for posting this. It should be spoken from every pulpit.

"Our lives, our career choices, how we spend our money and our time, the fruits we produce, our accomplishments and accolades; all of them reflect what we value. Our acquisition of status symbols and products indicates the secret gnawing fear of our inferiority. Our stinginess indicates a paralyzing fear of losing what we have and there is never enough to obliterate our dread. Our inconsideration of others, our inability to empathize with the plight of our fellowman reflects our egotistical sense of entitlement. We consistently ask, “What’s in it for me?”"

[TexasTowelie]

2. You're welcome.

I've posted a few other pieces from Carol Morgan in the Lounge and I'm becoming a great admirer of her work. She is more concerned about the quality of her work than the quantity and admits that she will sometimes take days to review her own articles before she feels comfortable to post them.

I share many of her values, but I can only hope to be so eloquent and passionate.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Huge K&R n/t