You’ll eventually get burned out working day in and day out when you don’t have time to rest. And if you are too lazy to do anything, you won’t be going anywhere either.
As I turn 30 in a few years, I’m considering going out of the cycle of looking for money just to buy stuff. Instead of endless consumerism, it’s high time to use the money to build things.
Don’t we just like creating things and letting them grow?
Everything seemed possible when I was still trying to figure out where to go in life, dreamy about who I could become after graduating from college. I could be anyone.
And now that I am seven years away from college, an engineer, and gained a master’s degree in energy engineering, the reality that what got you here won’t get you there is finally sinking in.
Unfortunately, the I could be anyone digressed to simply I could buy anything.
Aren’t we capable of more than just being consumers in the economy?
The inflow of money is deceiving, I’d say. Just because you are constantly getting cash out in exchange for your work, you can buy anything you want, and that’s it! But no. Did not we build our careers so we could change the world? Or perhaps, a part of our world.
Maybe, some of us working professionals are getting contented with just receiving constant paychecks and having the purchasing power we never had. But at a deeper level, I think that we are missing out on doing the things that only we could do.
While talking to one of our pastors in the church, I was reminded of professional growth and how to move forward. Here’s a summary of what I learned:
- You need consistency to grow. This means that delivering exceptional work should be routine, not seasonal.
- You need to produce output. And many times this year did I fall prey on the facade of busyness without doing actual work, you get what I’m saying?
- You may have a few, but you have the best. It’s important to be good at a few things rather than spreading yourself too thin and being mediocre at many things.
jessa 