Are You Building A Career Or Making A Living?
The definition of the word 'career' today typically relates to the main stream of remunerative work we do through the course of our lives
. If you think about the concept of career in terms of the history of mankind, its a strange little thing that has only been around for a couple of hundred years. It is an aberration. It only arrived with the organization of large corporations.
Given the ongoing development and advances in telecommunications and the consequent decentralization of global workforces there is no good way to tell just how much longer the idea will persist. In all honesty, if you really think about it, it is evident that the only thing a 'career' denotes is a person's meandering through a series of skills and opportunities that another person set forth for them; a sort of dictated notion of where to fit in and what a person's value is.
I always thought it interesting that 'care' was in the word career. It is as if these corporations have agreed to take care of us during our working life. They have agreed to baby sit us, so we do not make decisions, progress in our own time or decide our own value. Apparently we cannot be trusted with our own development and cannot be trusted to measure our own worth. This is why we need our 'carers' to map our way and only let us proceed when they believe we are worthwhile (and when they can afford it, and only if they can find another person to fill our current role)
No wonder so many people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Its all work, its all someone else's decisions, its all for someone else's goals, and its all building someone else's life. Yet so many people talk about career as if its the most important thing in their life.
I know as a child, when my parents went out for dinner, being baby sat definitely was not the highlight of my week. Living my life through paying with my brothers and friends was. Why do we change as adults? Why do we start measuring our success and life through someone else's eyes? Why do we let them direct our paths? Why have careers become so important?
Switch over to another phrase, 'making a living,' and now you are finally speaking a language I can appreciate. In case you didn't notice, the focus here is simply on life itself, this is something which 'careerists' tend to forget in my opinion. Our purpose on this planet is to live, not to have babysitters. This life is for us to learn on our own two feet, at our own pace: to experience, love, and grow. It's a life in which we need to set our very own value, and not have someone do that for us. All of which is the essence of making a living, it's about making life itself.
Which is why I have found the idea of working in internet marketing so appealing over time: though you surely need to learn a lot and acquire skills you lacked previously so as to be able to write successful, money-earning sites that are SEO-savvy, that's not that hard and can really be done by anyone.
No, the real thing I love about this line of work is the fact that in order to make it big you have to find what it is you are really passionate about. The reason here is simple to understand. Whatever subject you are passionate about has, to a certain measure, a language of its own; only those who really are passionate about the matter will be able to comprehend that language. By doing so, you are opening the door to being able to sell yourself to others in the same niche for the true value which you possess. Love it or leave it, but that is the way of the web.
This is the very thing which makes this industry beautiful. To be successful, you have to get involved in something you love. That is why I do not see myself as having a career. I am making a living. Everything I do is about a topic I am passionate about and that includes writing this article. I never have sluggish mornings anymore. I am bursting at the seams to get out of bed every single day to continue with my living. There are no more disappointing opportunities missed, promotions which passed me by, or board room politics leaving me out in the cold. I measure my value by the internet creations I launch, the bank balance they generate, the lifestyle this provides for and the time I am allowed to enjoy it.
In light of all this, I could never see myself working in a different field.
by: Damian Papworth
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