The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
Jack Simmons said:
Same here. If the job can be done by somebody who knows nothing about nearly everything (according to the "job" description) it is not worth the bother. That is something I am constantly reminding our project leaders of. If the task can be done by somebody like that, please do not bother me with it. Tasks like that are not career enhancing.
DELIVERED IN A LOUD BOOMING VOICE THAT REVERBATES FOR ALL TO HEAR:~
You are victim to a gross misconception.
If you have put yourself into a creative role you cannot affford to think like this.
This is not your fault, but it is the fault of your thinking, which is not the correct one when dealing with a situation such as this.
I am going to put you right on this, straight away, for your own benefit, and for the benefit ot the membership, because many members are very young and ambitious.
The great majority of these youngsters are here to learn, because no one is born knowing.
We all have to learn. Some are fortunate to be taught. Others less fortunate have to teach themselves.
Really creative, innovative, open minded, intelligent and imaginative people succeed not because they are geniuses, but because they are persistent in the pursuit of an objective, and what is more, are willing to undergo any experience that would daunt most ordinaty people. These creatives are different to the great majority in that they are able to recognise what does not work and then to persist until they unravel what does work.
What is more important, is the ability to recognise what does not work and to use it to positive effect.
While we are on this, I am reminded of a catastrophe that became a famous American scientist. He had a laboratory. One night there was an unexpected and unprecedented fall in temperature.
All the chemicals and materials in his laboratory were affected by this frost.
His staff of assistants wailed at the idea of this setback. He instead viewed this as positive, not negative.
He then proceeded to catalogue and study the effects of freezing temperature on the different elements, because, according to his frame of reference, this was an anomaly that presented him with an opportunity not often met, that had fortuittously presented itself and was there to be taken advantage of immediately, without hesitation.
This kind of response is what differentiates the extraordinary from the ordinary.
Trading the markets is not an ordinary endeavour.
It is a mission that truly is able to test the aspirant in ways not imaginable untli experienced.
For this reason, the ordinary may take a job for ordinary reasons.
The extraordinary are capable and willing to take a job for extraordinary reasons.
I am not extraordinary. But I am very persistent when I encounter a riddle, and I am not satisfied until it is solved to my satisfaction in its entirety, and it fits, seamlessly with everything else, and is totally harmonius. I abhor force fitting, because it cannot and will never work.
It may not occur to you that one extraordinary reason for taking a job, may not be for the money.
There are other things more valuable than money.
One of these is knowledge.
The correct knowledge is virtually unaffordable, priceless, especially in an arena in which the great majority are prevented from having it.
A route to obtaining that knowledge sometimes involves taking a job , not for the sake of the remuneration, but because of what can be learnt, even if it involves a drastic cut, and I am talking of 66%, which by any yardstick is a great sacrifice, just in order to have the opportunity to learn what cannot otherwise be accessed exept by proactive experience.
A case in point is my own experience.
I have been criticised in the past on this website and elsewhere by uninformed idiots sho arrive at conclusions not being in possession of the true facts.
One particular poster, thirteen, since banned, was particularly persistent in this regard, and I never bothered to retaliate as I did not consider him significant.
I will tell you, that many years ago, I gave up a very promising career to take a very low paid job, as a rank beginner, on the floor of The Stock Exchange, in London, England, to the astonishment of my family and friends.
The reason to them was not immediately clear, but it is perfectly clear to them today.
I did not go there for the salary, I went there for what I could LEARN.
I assure you that all knowledge is formative. I have cause never to regret the initiative I then took, as what I was able to observe and experience at first hand is knowledge that money cannot buy when viewied within the context of what I explain to you above.
