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JOB VS CAREER
In a job you
seek to be
successful, while in a career you
seek to be valuable. In a job you
look out for yourself; in a career
you look after others.
In a job you
ask how to get
from "here" to "there". The focus
on the destination. Meanwhile, in a
career you ask whether going "there"
is worth it. The focus on the
journey.
In a job you seek to make money. In
a career you seek to make a
difference. In a job you are
detached from your deepest longings,
while in a career you heed your
deepest longings. In a job you
expend maximum input and achieve
minimal results. In a career you
tend to achieve maximum results with
minimal input. In a job you
experience more stress than fun. In
a career you have lots of fun even
when stressed. In a job you enjoy
lots of pleasure (money, power,
etc.), but not much happiness. In a
career you experience true happiness
even when things may be unpleasant.
In a job you have a
compartmentalized life, while in a
career you have an integrated life.
In a job you live a life alien to
your identity, while in a career you
live a life congruent with your
identity.
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JOB KEEPING SKILLS
"You can't eat for eight hours a
day, nor drink for eight hours a
day, nor make love for eight hours a
day. All you can do for eight hours
is work. Which is the reason why
people make themselves and everybody
else so miserable and unhappy."
-WILLIAM FAULKNER
"What
are you going to be when you grow
up? What is your work in the world
going to be? What will be your
works? These are not
fundamentally questions about jobs
and pay, but questions about life.
Work is applied effort; it is
whatever we put ourselves into,
whatever we expend our energy on for
the sake of accomplishing or
achieving something. Work in this
fundamental sense is not what we do
for a living but what we do
with our living."
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WILLIAM BENNETT / The Book of
Virtues
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CAREER &
LIFE ISSUES
"Why do they work so hard? Because
they are motivated. And why are
they motivated? Because the work is
important. And their work goes
beyond important. It's worthwhile."
-BLANCHARD & BOWLES / Gung Ho!
"Far and away the best prize that
life offers is the chance to work
hard at work worth doing."
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT / US President
"There's nothing I would enjoy more
than a job that was so meaningful to
me that I brought it home."
-NORA WATSON / From Studs Terkel's
Working
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About Human Resources: Business
Casual Dress Code
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