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JOB VS
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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."
- 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."
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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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