The Transaction
Every job is a transaction — of money, time and passion
Can a job be purely transactional in nature?
If it’s one about monetary values being exchanged with work, then yes, it can be. You can pursue career purely on monetary reasons. Get the highest salary as you can have. Go for it.
If it’s one about self-manifestation: showing your best, learning, exchanging skills, going up the ladder… absolutely yes, it can be. These things are also transactional.
To be fair, every choice we make is transactional. Every motivation we have on any kind of endeavour is transactional. We exchange our time to get a greater good for ourselves, be it money, title, prestige, or something more noble like learning and voluntary contributions.
I read a tweet the other day, but I wouldn’t really post the exact tweet here, just wanted to rephrase it a little bit. The series of tweets could be summarised like this:
A manager wanted to ask for help from any of her direct reports to help …
