Tuesday, January 13, 2009
My epiphany has come!! I had it in me all along, but I just needed someone else to point out the obvious. Satisfaction is really hard to find. I know why sitting in that seminar I felt uncomfortable. Not because the speaker was being overly persuasive, but because he kept focusing on the only thing the industry could provide: money. And in his mind, if money doesn't satisfy you, then what will?
Who can put a price on satisfaction? Some people don't need that satisfaction. Some people are wired such that satisfaction is all that matter. Who cares if I receive the lowest pay in town, or I have to work doubly hard to earn the same as some CEO. How many jobs out there give satisfaction. Management has always been teaching me about job satisfaction, it was the answer to everything in the tutorials.
Why to some students hate school, and can't wait to work? Because school isn't satisfying them! Why do some students seem like they can't bear to leave school! Because it's just too satisfying! It was so simple. My satisfaction doesn't have to pay me, I have to pay for my satisfaction. People always think teaching is a dead end job because the pay is so low for the amount of work you do, but teachers are one of the few people who have that satisfaction in life. Some claim they impact young lives, others like interacting with the young ones, but what is the cost of their satisfaction?
So what is my epiphany? Find my satisfaction. And I already know what that is.
Dan
3:18 pm
