What To Care About In A Job
It’s all too easy to view a job as a job, a day’s work as a day’s pay. I hate this approach to work. Your work is an opportunity to do something meaningful. It’s an opportunity to make art, create a gift, and to do something that matters. It’s an opportunity to invoke change. And it starts with the right job.
This post contains factors to underweight and factors to overweight when making career decisions. I've included the factors to underweight as avoiding bad decisions is often more impactful than making good ones. Why It Pays To Know Entering the job market, and observing friends doing the same, I’ve noticed that people get caught up in a mindset similar to teenage dating — you get so excited that someone likes you, that you lose sight of whether or not you even like them back. When taking a step in the wrong direction can be detrimental for years to come, knowing what you want in a job provides
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