Today, I found something that made me think...Is it that important?

Me: Importante ang ano?!

Ako: Ano pa eh di ang sweldo?

Me: Hindi ko alam, importante nga ba?

Ako: Oo naman di ba? Masarap kaya madaming pera. Bakit kuntento ka na ba meron ka ngayon?

Me: Medyo. Hindi naman lahat ng kasiyahan nakukuha ng pera di ba? Basta masaya pamilya mo, ikaw, mga kaibigan mo. Ayos na yun di ba? Basta nakaka-survive kayo araw-araw.

Ako: Whooo!! Plastik ka! Di ba nga minsan tamang tama lang ang sweldo mo? Minsan pa nga kulang. Minsan nga hindi na kayo nakakabili ng kung anong gusto niyo dahil sapat lang para sa pagkain at iba pa? Tapos sasabihin mo OK lang?! Sira ka ba?

Me: Oo, minsan nasasabi ko 'yan. Pero naiisip ko naman na ayos lang. Ganun naman talaga di ba? Meron naman nakalaan sa iyo pagdating ng panahon. Hindi lahat ng bagay dito sa mundo masarap. Oo minsan nakakatikim ka ng ginhawa. Siyempre minsan dapat makatikim ka rin ng hirap. I'm sure meron din naman darating para sa iyo. Kelangan mo lang talagang maghintay. Lakipan mo ng panalangin at tiwala sa Ama, sigurado ibibigay Niya ang dapat para sa iyo. You just have to TRUST and WAIT.

Ako: Wuusshhuu!!

Me: I found the below article. This could give you a different perspective or something.

Work is love made visible

By Kahlil Gibran

About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."

In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, "There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." [2001 Edition, page 57.]

High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.

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