Today I read an article in the papers that talked about how we could have a job, a career or a calling. The differences were quite interesting: if it's just a job, people tend to be clock-watchers, and come to work just to put intone mandatory 8 hours (or less if they can get away with it) so that they can really start living after work. If it's a career, people tend to be very driven, motivated and achieve great outcomes, but they are motivated by money, prestige, status. If it's a calling, the content of the work matters and they are driven by intrinsic factors such as wanting to serve others or improve something. They often also get the money, status and promotions as a result of their performance although they were not looking for it. The interesting thing for me is that on the surface, both people working in their careers and calling may appear equally driven, but their driving factor are so different! I Guess when the going gets tough, or when the prospects of promotion or work-to-reward ratio are not up to mark, then we may see differences in response in the two types of people.
To help people find their career or calling, the writer suggested that we write down our career bucket list - meaning what things do we want to have achieved before we die, if there were no limitations? Or to help spur the imagination, what would we want to be featured in the papers for in the future? I was quite intrigued by it and so here is my attempt at crafting one:
- Publishing a book that is enjoyed by thousands
- To have touched people whom I worked with by inspiring them towards excellence and God
- To really improve the way things are done, address inefficiencies and maximize impact, and delight people as they go about their daily lives in many ways
- I have always wanted to experience life as a waitress
- I really enjoyed coding once, perhaps to actually code something or develop a machine that works!
- To preach a series of sermons on things close to my heart
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