Chapter 73 Never work just for a paycheck

As a professional, always keep in mind, don't just work for the salary, the job gives you more than you pay for it.If you have been working hard and making progress, you will have a good and unblemished life record, which will enable you to have a good reputation in the company and even the entire industry, and a stable and happy job will accompany you throughout your life. In the eyes of many people, salary is a symbol of their own social status, and they must not be lower than others. When they first start a business, they expect themselves to be rich. They only know how to ask the boss for high salaries, but they don’t know what they can do, let alone Know how to start with small things and make real progress.

This kind of behavior of working for salary is unwise. It makes people often blinded by short-term interests and unable to see clearly the future development path.So in the workplace, this phenomenon frequently occurs: First: Perfunctory work.They think that the boss pays them too little, so they sloppy with the work.When they work, they lack enthusiasm and treat everything with a coping attitude. They are lazy when they can, and escape when they can, so as to express their complaints against the boss.Often they work for the wages, never thinking that it will have anything to do with their future.

Second: Part-time jobs everywhere, holding two, three, or even several jobs.Constantly switching from multiple perspectives, being in a state of fatigue for a long time, not doing a good job, and unable to improve the ability, and ultimately the way to make a living is getting narrower and narrower. Third: always be ready to change jobs.They always think that the current job pays so little, so they are always ready to jump to a better paying unit. But in fact, a large number of people not only did not jump higher and higher, but because they frequently changed jobs, the company did not dare to entrust them with important responsibilities for fear of leaking secrets; because they were too keen on "job-hopping" and half-hearted about their work, It is difficult to gain the trust of the boss; those who are dissatisfied with the low salary and perfunctory are certainly a kind of harm to the boss, but in the long run, it is tantamount to burying their talents.

Although work is for livelihood, it is not just for livelihood.What is more valuable than livelihood is to fully tap your potential at work, give full play to your talents, and do honest and pure things.Viewed as a positive learning experience, every job contains many opportunities for personal growth. A person can achieve self-realization by doing a job that he is suitable for and likes, exerting the greatest talent, ability and potential quality in the work, and constantly creating and developing himself.People who can achieve self-realization tend to regard work as a kind of creative labor and a mission, and try their best to do it well so as to realize their personal value.

In the United States, a young man volunteered to work as a quality inspector in a company that manufactures fuel engines after obtaining a Ph.D. His salary was lower than that of ordinary workers at first.After working for half a month, he found that the company's production costs were high and the product quality was poor, so he spared no effort to persuade the company's leaders to implement reforms to occupy the market.The colleagues around him said to him: "The company doesn't give you a high salary, why do you work so hard?" He laughed and said: "I am working for myself, this is my career." A year later, this The young man was promoted to deputy general manager, and his salary was doubled.

That's right, salary is a reflection of the value of our work and a reward for our work.We need a salary to meet our basic material and spiritual needs.But if you work only for the salary, it means that you see the salary as the purpose of the work and the whole work.Working just for a salary is like living just to eat, greatly reducing the meaning of work and the meaning of life. So, if you work only for a paycheck, it will not only demotivate you at work, but also your life.A dedicated employee doesn't just work for a salary, they see work as their career just like the young man in the story.When they regard work as a career, they will not do bad things.

I once heard a lecture, and I remember a sentence in it: "During shoe repair, I did better than others, because I repaired with care, quality was reliable, the speed was faster than others, and I made more money than others. So no matter how ordinary things you are doing now, don’t be discouraged, and strive to be outstanding when you do small things.” All successful people have a conscientious and responsible attitude. No matter how humble their jobs are, they don’t care about the salary. They know how to work for themselves and be aggressive. This is often the difference between career success and failure.

Career exchanges salary, career creates value.Everyone has a purpose in their work: put money first, and you are likely to remain poor; put career first, and you will soon be on the road to wealth. When you see work as a pleasure, life becomes beautiful; when you see work as a task, life becomes slavery.In fact, work is for yourself, and you don’t have to care about what others say. Work hard and gain happiness and dignity from work. This is a very meaningful job that can realize the value of your life.In this way, your life will be more brilliant and your life will be more brilliant.