Your Life as Career Opportunity

Jobs are for money;lifework is for love;

Jobs are short term; lifework is lifelong.

Many young people fail to choose any lifework

--they fail to find any creating they love.

Such people do not care much about their lives,

so wasting time is okay.

By Richard Greene

I don't know why but I can't write Japanese with this computer right now.

So don't blame me about not writing this entry in Japanese.

Today's entry is about how do we need to approach to our career not only job.

Here we go.

Most of us

1. Young people lust for income. They start life at the bottom of a 70 year power hierarchy and their first jobs tend to be part-time and low income.
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The lust for income can quite often cause them to take jobs that make modest increases in income but do nothing good for long term career building.

2. The young complain that they do not know at age 20 or 25 what they want to do in life. They need more experience before choosing. This causes a lot of young people to completely waste, in career preparation terms, their years from 22 to 32.
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Young people must gain experience in order to find what they want to do in life; however, they have the choice--search while dirt poor or search while well rewarded and building powerful credentials.

Then how can we get a effective career??

There are 3 points of making our career effective

1. Effective people have ways of making money by not pursuing making money. They live paradoxically in this way. They also have ways of in parallel pursuing diverse paths into life winning different leadership positions in each track at different times. They thirdly have ways of multiplying whatever they invent, turning it into streams of diverse types of products that other people can benefit from. They productize their accomplishments in this way, automatically throughout life.
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Effective people using whatever job they had to pursue their lifework, ways of shrinking the amount of time and effort their jobs required freeing up time for pursuing lifework, and ways of evolving jobs so they more and more get paid for doing what they love, their chosen lifework.

2. Effective people pursuing diverse paths through life in parallel, at times leading in one path and at times leading in others and, if lucky, at times leading in all at once. Effective people always are developing several careers simultaneously everyday and week.

3. Effective people turn victory into diverse types of products that themselves become consequent victories. They multiply any one victory they accomplish. They turn individual victories into tools others can benefit from. They distribute such tools. They distribute their victories, in effect.

Method

Managing Lifework and Job

The beginning of all career management is this distinction between lifework and job. Your lifework is what you want to do with your life, the long term projects you dream about and actually incrementally, over the years do. Your job is where you currently get money. It is ideal, of course, if you get paid for doing your lifework.