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Jack Dixon's avatar

This was great Baxter. Once I return home from travels in late Feb I’m going to start looking for work again and this kind of mentality has reinforced what I want to find in that future job.

I’ve seen so many of my business graduate peers take on jobs for just the money. While there’s nothing wrong in making good money, making it the only criterion for which you select a job is sure to lead to that hollowness you describe.

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Patrick Muindi's avatar

Anytime I want to do something - take on a job, for instance - I simply look at the people deemed successful in the thing under consideration. If I wouldn't be happy becoming them, I say no with ease.

For example, I can't work in banking, because the best one can become - a CEO, maybe - wouldn't make me happy. But I can spend years becoming a better writer, because having 1000 people read my emails every week is success to me.

It's all a question of what we want to become; it's all one of what and who we define as success.

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Jeff Sullivan's avatar

Banger

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David Faulkner's avatar

You're wise beyond your years, amigo!

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Baxter Blackwood's avatar

Gracias por leer!!

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Jeff Sullivan's avatar

Hola, a mi me encanta el Español como tu y Baxter

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