Octavian Pantiș breaks down three ways people relate to work: a job is trading time for money, a career is chasing titles and advancement, and a calling is committing energy to something bigger than yourself.
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So you have a job if practically you exchange time for money or skills for money. You're good at whatever, at selling or at marketing, and you say, hey, I can do ABC. How much are you paying me? And the guy says, or the lady says, okay, we'll pay you $100, $100, whatever, fine. And you do that, right? You don't want to become the CEO of the company. You don't want to take over the company. You don't want to appear on the COVID of whatever magazine. You exchange time for money. What does it mean? It means that your main passion in life is outside job, is with your family, is with fishing or something else. You have a career if you give time and skills, but in exchange you want not only money, but money and something else. A better title on the business card, a bigger card, a better office, a corner office, the prestige, the CEO or whatever else, a VP title that you want. You see yourself in that particular company or in that industry for a few years. You see yourself growing. And again, this is not good. It's not bad. It doesn't mean either of these is good or bad. They all exist. And what happens with careers is that you tend to give more time. So it's not a 9 to 5, and I'm air quotes here because nothing is going to be ever 9 to 5 anymore unless some exceptions. But you tend to invest much more time because you want to get involved in side projects and you want to know more and you want to prove that you can bring a bigger contribution and so on. You have a calling if you give time and skill and energy, not for money like in a job, not for money and something else like for a career, but for something else first.
