The Golden Rule: If You’re Good at Something, Never Do it For Free...
Hi, Steemians!
Chance plays a huge part in our position in the social hierarchy. As talented and diligent as you might be, you still need some other elements of causality in your favor to achieve something.
That is why many people get stuck with things that are lesser than what they actually deserve.
Christopher Nolan once wrote this dialogue for one of his films:
‘If you are good at something, never do it for free.’
And it is a meaningful sentence for those who know how to interpret it properly.
Our society is a great one, because people get rewarded for their competence and not other non-important factors, so far as professional work is concerned.
But here is the problem: the mentioned argument is not entirely true. Sometimes, people are not rewarded because of their competence, but for simply being in the right place at the right time.
Even worse is that sometimes people are rewarded because they have certain connections.
It is fair to claim that a lot of people are not well respected and paid back for their competence.
Your skills and talents may be put to use, but ask yourself this question: Are you being rewarded for what you are bringing to the table?
A person may be awarded ten-fold for doing something with mediocrity, and a person may be awarded with less than what they deserve for doing something utterly amazing.
In such scenarios, I have only one thing to say to the person whose right is getting trampled on:
Be brave enough to free yourself from the restrains that disrespect you and your dignity!
If you are good at something, you should never do it for free. If you are good at something, you should never do it for less than what you actually deserve!
A lot of people get stuck with a job because they are afraid when it comes to handling their expenses and earning their living costs.
But imagine the waste of potential and time when you actually settle for something lesser when you could aspire for something much greater!
What would your future-self tell you?
How would you look upon these days in the future, where the troubles and worries of expenses and things like that are not important anymore?
The world may not have treated you well, but you can treat yourself well. Remember, if you cannot have respect for your own craft and work, the world will have an even more difficult time accepting it!
Trust in your own potential and skill and push for greater boundaries each and every day! Remember how the saying goes? It is not over until it’s over! So, make a note to constantly push yourself for something better.
If no one has told you this recently, then let me be frank and clear: Provided the fact that you have really worked for it, you only deserve the very best from this world!
A BIG HUG!
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Hello and good morning,
yes, the drama with the connections...
In our business or political world one need connections to be successful or you have the golden idea and you're lucky the right people noticed it.
So what's most important, if you start a business is building connections, sometimes more important as your idea itself.
Take a look at most of the famous painters in our past, they had no connections, lived a poor life and died poor.
The most successful people and politicians and their families have very good connections since centuries, whether they do a good job or not, they are successful.
Here on Steemit for example, it's the same, without building connections or communities the success will not be as much or one invest money in Steem.
My advice :
Do everything to make connections here, make useful comments, resteem good posts and help new users to understand Steemit better.
In the long term, the success will be yours.
Have a wonderful week
Tom
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I agree.
That's why I quit my job. At some point it was rewarding and offered great possibilities of social mobility, but politics and mediocracy ruined our institutions and I felt I was working for free (not sure how many countries in the world pay $12 a month to college professors).
I liked this line
I am working on it
Exactly happened to me. Regrettably here in Venezuela the salary does not reach at all.
We have a lot in common, then.
No amount of money we can make here is enough. The sad thing is that at this rate, it will be impossible for friends and relatives to help from abroad.
Two years ago, any venezuelan working in Perú or Chile could send 5 or 10% of their salary to a relative and provide them with the equivalent of months of salaries here. Now they struggle to sedn 20% or more and those amounts mean nothing with our inflation.
We have become the most expensive country in america, probably in the world (when it comes to the relation income-expenses)
Absolutely accurate. Your time and talents are finite, scarce resources. If they are worth other people benefitting from them, they are worth paying a fair value. Thanks for this!
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Greetings @chbartist
Working in a company and fulfilling a schedule allows you to develop discipline, experience and contacts. While working in the company, it can be generated in parallel economic activities that can generate additional income. But to be able to do the above, we must be confident in what we do, be sure that we provide the best service, therefore we will stop seeing each other as an employee, to begin to see ourselves as a company, we must visualize ourselves as a brand.We should work hard to het our true worth for what we do however it is a two way street very often! We must strive to add value and demand our value back as we grow and climb the ladder. In being professionals we are often able to gauge our worth these days with technology and the way we can share information online.
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Hola @chbartist buen consejo, me he fijado que en muchos casos nos es difícil tomar esa decisión, es decir, para cumplir con esta regla debemos estar seguros de nosotros mismos…
I am absolutely agree with you !!!
and by the way would you be so kind and add me to the list of of contributors, please
The fear of rejection is as bad as the fear of failure.
An alcove writer, a poet of closed notebooks, a lone painter in the attic, can build wonderful dreams, is able to draw a rainbow in the darkest gray mind. But the ghosts are his own fears that will prevent him from showing that talent. He will prefer to stay broken, he will accept a yoke that he does not deserve. Only because of the fear of being rejected.
This state of conformism is lethal for any human being. But to get there many times the road has been plagued by immature rejections by parents, an education with abuse a continuous mental work that has only managed to place that person in a subsoil of which he does not allow himself to emerge.
Again you surprised me with your right thoughts.
All best, Piotr.
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