Comments on: Why Your Work And Values Should Match http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/ Doing What Counts Thu, 03 May 2012 16:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: How To Stand Up For Your Values and Make Fans « The Ongoing Autobiography of a Young Capitalist http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/#comment-574 How To Stand Up For Your Values and Make Fans « The Ongoing Autobiography of a Young Capitalist Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:02:02 +0000 http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/#comment-574 [...] is where it all starts. If you want to stand for something, you need to know what your values are and what makes you uniquely you. Try to come up with a one sentence description that describes why [...] [...] is where it all starts. If you want to stand for something, you need to know what your values are and what makes you uniquely you. Try to come up with a one sentence description that describes why [...]

]]> By: Jarkko http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/#comment-515 Jarkko Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:24:04 +0000 http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/#comment-515 Wow! That's a great and inspiring story - a great example of finding the Job you want to do in this world. Thanks for sharing it! Wow! That’s a great and inspiring story – a great example of finding the Job you want to do in this world. Thanks for sharing it!

]]> By: canuck1955 http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/#comment-512 canuck1955 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:58:42 +0000 http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/09/why-your-work-and-values-should-match/#comment-512 18 years ago I used the services of a company. I found a bunch of caring people, interested in helping me realize my goals. Last year this same company expanded and I applied for a position (having returned to university and obtained the necessary education). At the interview, they asked why them. I told them of my experience 18 years previously and that today, I am looking for a job that fills my needs, values and goals and I believe they were that company. Compassion, caring, dignity, honesty, integrity were some of the values I eschew as do they. I got the job, love my work and the weirdest thing is they PAY me well to do what I love. I am happy, they are happy, my clients are happy (and in 3 months at my evaluation I got a raise (an additional $4.00 hr ! ! !), gas allowance and monthly bonuses, based on my work and my clients feedback to my employers. YES dream jobs do exist, but it takes the individual work and effort to set the goal of finding their dream job, act on the plans to get it and never give up in their pursuit. ps. I don't do overtime. I figure O/T is bad time management or ridiculous expectations. Nor do I work through my lunchtime. 18 years ago I used the services of a company. I found a bunch of caring people, interested in helping me realize my goals.

Last year this same company expanded and I applied for a position (having returned to university and obtained the necessary education). At the interview, they asked why them. I told them of my experience 18 years previously and that today, I am looking for a job that fills my needs, values and goals and I believe they were that company. Compassion, caring, dignity, honesty, integrity were some of the values I eschew as do they.

I got the job, love my work and the weirdest thing is they PAY me well to do what I love. I am happy, they are happy, my clients are happy (and in 3 months at my evaluation I got a raise (an additional $4.00 hr ! ! !), gas allowance and monthly bonuses, based on my work and my clients feedback to my employers.

YES dream jobs do exist, but it takes the individual work and effort to set the goal of finding their dream job, act on the plans to get it and never give up in their pursuit.

ps. I don’t do overtime. I figure O/T is bad time management or ridiculous expectations. Nor do I work through my lunchtime.

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