"Will Work For Food"
"Will Work For Food"
An excerpt from an article i find very insightful. lemme know what u think.
do email this to pple who just graduated/ starting their careers if you think it'll be useful.
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"I know, thank God it's Friday," he resumed. " But commencement means to begin, not to finish. You've had a four-year sabbatical from life and now you're ready to go out there in the real world and make money. But you're only beginning Real World 101 in your education.
"One more thing before we leave," he continued. " Please, never, ever work just for the pay-check. Please don't just get a job. A job is something that many of you had while you worked your way through college because you needed the money.
But a career is something you do because you're inspired to do it. You want to do it, you love doing it, and you're excited when you do it.
You'll do it if you were paid nothing beyond food and the basics. You'll do it because it's your 'why in life."
What he was saying, which I''ve tried to recall and interpret in my own words, is that many individuals go out and try to get the highest paying job possible - with fringe benefits - regardless of the industry, the service,or products, and without fully researching the opportunities for advancement.
If you simply chase money,it may catch you, and if it catches you, and becomes your driving force,you'll forever be its slave.
By letting money pursue you, but never consume you,you'll always be its master.
By doing what you love, loving what you do, and delivering more than you promise,you'll always be underpaid for your services, which is how it should be.
For if you're paid more thna you are worth, you'll become complacent and run the risk of being replaced or declared obsolete.
Overpaid individuals are overdrawn in their knowledge and value bank accounts.People who are underpaid for the level and quality of the service they provide are always in demand and never stop learning.Therefore, money and opportunity are always chasing them.
This is what i got out of the commencement speech that day.
Olmos concluded," Chase your passion, not your pension! Be inspired to learn as much as you can - to find a cause that benefits humankind -and you'll be sought after your quality and dedication to excellence.
This passion will make you oblivious of quitting time and to the length of your workday.You'll awake every morning with the passion of pursuit, but not obsessed with the pursuit of money."
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An article by Dr Denis Waitley on the speech made by Edward James Olmos on Dr Waitley's commencement day many years ago.
USANA Health Sciences, Singapore Newsletter, Jul & Aug 2005, Page 4.
An excerpt from an article i find very insightful. lemme know what u think.
do email this to pple who just graduated/ starting their careers if you think it'll be useful.
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"I know, thank God it's Friday," he resumed. " But commencement means to begin, not to finish. You've had a four-year sabbatical from life and now you're ready to go out there in the real world and make money. But you're only beginning Real World 101 in your education.
"One more thing before we leave," he continued. " Please, never, ever work just for the pay-check. Please don't just get a job. A job is something that many of you had while you worked your way through college because you needed the money.
But a career is something you do because you're inspired to do it. You want to do it, you love doing it, and you're excited when you do it.
You'll do it if you were paid nothing beyond food and the basics. You'll do it because it's your 'why in life."
What he was saying, which I''ve tried to recall and interpret in my own words, is that many individuals go out and try to get the highest paying job possible - with fringe benefits - regardless of the industry, the service,or products, and without fully researching the opportunities for advancement.
If you simply chase money,it may catch you, and if it catches you, and becomes your driving force,you'll forever be its slave.
By letting money pursue you, but never consume you,you'll always be its master.
By doing what you love, loving what you do, and delivering more than you promise,you'll always be underpaid for your services, which is how it should be.
For if you're paid more thna you are worth, you'll become complacent and run the risk of being replaced or declared obsolete.
Overpaid individuals are overdrawn in their knowledge and value bank accounts.People who are underpaid for the level and quality of the service they provide are always in demand and never stop learning.Therefore, money and opportunity are always chasing them.
This is what i got out of the commencement speech that day.
Olmos concluded," Chase your passion, not your pension! Be inspired to learn as much as you can - to find a cause that benefits humankind -and you'll be sought after your quality and dedication to excellence.
This passion will make you oblivious of quitting time and to the length of your workday.You'll awake every morning with the passion of pursuit, but not obsessed with the pursuit of money."
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An article by Dr Denis Waitley on the speech made by Edward James Olmos on Dr Waitley's commencement day many years ago.
USANA Health Sciences, Singapore Newsletter, Jul & Aug 2005, Page 4.
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