With my role now being global due to a person resigning, I am getting a "little bit busy" with tasks and while it is only a temporary situation until another person is hired and trained, that is still a six month process, unless an internal transfer, where it would be about a three month process instead. So regardless, nothing much is going to change anytime soon.
Admittedly, I am a little concerned with the way it is going to roll for me, as I have been somewhat committed to plans I have made with people in the past and had new ones already announced for Q4, but with limited resources, there is only so much I can do. Essentially, I will be forced to "go back on my promises", where even though it is understandable, that isn't what people will *actually understand. However, if I do manage to pull all of this off, it should give me significant collateral salary negotiation in the future.
The walls might be closing in, but that doesn't mean there isn't opportunity, even though sometimes it feels like there is the Dianoga from the Star Wars trash compactor, circling in the waters.
I don't plan on being eaten.
While it doesn't necessarily sound like a lot of fun to have this type of work and responsibility (and it is not), there is also the sense of challenge and sense of achievement that comes with it. While we all likely work for the money, there are other values that we apply to the work we do too, and at least there is the potential for accomplishment and fulfillment at some level of our hierarchy of needs. Perhaps on Maslow's Pyramid, it might come into the Esteem and Cognitive layers, and perhaps even some of the Self-actualization stage.
It is important, isn't it?
Not the theory, the feeling that what we do in this world matters, even if it doesn't matter much. At their core, most of our jobs are busy work in the sense that they are not necessary for us to survive, but rather, that they support an enrichment of experience past survival. Much of the wealth generated by businesses comes down to entertainment, where the supply chains from start to finish, wend up producing something that is just for non-survival consumption. We of course have styled our lives around surviving using these things though, so that makes them "needed" in the sense that we have become reliant on the tools we have created as a species.
Yet, while "we as a species" have created a lot, the 99% of us will create nothing of the sort, where we will spend our lives as endusers of the products and services, not their developer.
This is the way of the world though isn't it? It is the way evolution works, where one minority evolves in ways that the majority do not. In the case of technological evolution where it builds tools however, the "rest" can evolve too, by learning how to use the tools created by others. And even then, there is some kind of sense of skill and accomplishment in the using, even though nothing was necessarily created at all.
The challenge as a human these days is that there are so many options available where we have potential, that it is very difficult to narrow down to what is our "full potential". Everything comes with a very wide range of opportunity-cost, which means that we are continually missing out on something, no matter what we do. And, because of the constant reminders of society, we feel that we are missing out too, raising all of the disappointments and fears that come with the known loss. Even if we are completely happy with what we are doing, we know that there are other things we could be doing in its place.
What if those things would be better suited and increase our potential?
It is an eternal question and as self-aware humans with the ability to consider the past and predict the future, we are born to continually suffer, we are designed to never have all we need. It keeps us evolving, because once we have one new tool, we are able to use it to change something that was unchangeable prior. Before flying to Mars, we first had to make it off the ground.
For most of us perhaps, our dreams are not as large as some, but we all dream of being something better than we are today. No one wants to be worse. The form this takes and the way we consolidate it psychological differ, but humans are made to progress, made to evolve and because we are social in nature and can build tools to help each other, made to collaborate in the process of our own evolution.
The way we meet our personal needs and what we set as goals change, but I am yet to meet a single person on earth who is truly content with all they have and never want for something else. This is lucky of course, because if we were all happy with what we have, none of us would have any jobs at all, other than the things we need to do to survive - but would we be fulfilled?
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
It is human nature to have some degree of discontentment. We all want to better ourselves and our situation. But what we choose to go after and for what reasons, reflect upon our substance and character. We are what we want. As for what those things are, less is more and we should be selective, zeroing in on what is truly important. Such choices can separate the selfish from the selfless. I believe contentment can be seen in our acts of selflessness.
Yes. I know some people who want the same things they wanted as a child - just better versions of them.
Perhaps this is higher up the pyramid hierarchy for most people.
I don't think so. We humankind tend to be affected by each other. I mean we could easily get jealous of each other's job, success, money, property etc. Also, we change things in life by time, even our partner :) Therefore, we always want more...
Always want more and once we have more, what we have is not good enough - so we want a better version.
It may be that acquiring a new role so quickly due to the departure of someone generates more work and responsibility, which sometimes leads us to modify the plans we have, and even, as you say, leads us to not keep our promises. However, if this represents a challenge or an opportunity, and people do not understand because of not fulfilling the promises, we are left with the satisfaction of personal fulfillment, even more so if this addition represents a gigantic challenge. Go ahead, all that work, all that effort will give you greater fruits. Best regards.
I was already doing the role, there were two of us - now one.
"enough work" is rarely my issue :)
You find educated people and great scientists who devote their time to jobs and works that are used just only for entertainment example, instead of searching for natural remedies for incurable diseases, money is lost in knowing what is in the very distant universe.
most of the mathematical brain power over the last few decades, has gone into creating financial instruments.
People are wrong. Anything that a person owns is not used to the fullest benefit.
The abundance of choices and dreams make a person lost and preoccupied who does not devote even a short time to enjoy himself.
It is what we "enjoy" that might be the issue, right?
Our problem is that we are imitating everyone, even in pleasure, and we are satisfied with that wrong.
this is true - this is the influence of culture on art and beauty, it is all just an amplification of each other to the point there is very little creative thought left. The scourge of global media.
You're right, sir. Not everyone does their job for money. This thesis can be formulated by some people who really love their job and do it with all their heart. When a person does his or her job with zeal, money flows only for what they do.
My belief is also the same as yours, that it is for their passion and self-actualization. That way, they will be very caring and easy to help others as a manifestation of our manifestation as social beings.
I think the best situation we can have is, getting paid for what we love to do :)
That's a lot of people's dreams, right? How nice that they are doing their hobby and they are getting paid for it, like a photographer, for example. !ILOL
Including you, I think. You keep writing things down, and I see a lot of people appreciate your thoughts in your posts here. You seem very passionate about it and enjoy it.
I enjoy writing, but it probably won't be paying the bills for a while - I have a couple IRL jobs for that.
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I think I've seen people like that in a couple of dozen interviews... And you know, they really all (or most of them) said they were lucky. Lucky to have found themselves, their business or their passion, and now they are completely happy. But my thoughts are basically the same as yours. Again, you touch on a topic I've been pondering in my head without revealing it as broadly as you have done. Thank you. Again, something to think about....
Find the work life balance and prioritize, otherwise it would lead to burn out and not sustainable.
Human beings are social creatures of adaptation, boredom follows if there is not a goal - whether it is for yourself, people around you, spiritual, or materialistic.
Life is just a drab routine it seems defined by monotony and unmet potential.