In the movie The Matrix, mentor Morpheus shows to an incredulous Neo the truth: that humans are used by machines as mere batteries.
I don’t want to shock you, but doesn’t this sound like how corporations use human beings? Are we not “batteries” or “human resources” being used to power the machines called corporations?
The first step to awakening is to accept that fact. It’s not a horrible fact, it’s just what it is. Don’t be upset about. Just see it for what it is.
The next step is to decide to transform yourself, from human resource to resourceful human.
Here’s the major difference: a human resource does a job while a resourceful human creates a career.
Allow me to repeat that there is nothing wrong per se with being a human resource, as long as you know that that is how your corporate employer is using you. This does not make your boss evil, nor does it make your corporate employer a bad entity.
In fact, most corporate employers are indeed machines, fueled by capital provided by shareholders or business owners. Corporations need labor, and so, you voluntarily decided to join the organization you currently work for in order to exchange labor for dollars.
This is the responsible thing to do since you need dollars in order to sustain your life. Your physical life, that is.
So a job is necessary, and is like the first step on a stairway.
However, there are many more stps afterwards, and the entire stairway itself is a process where you transform yourself — at the pace that suits you best — from labor to creator.
It is a very rare human being who can become a creator without first being labor, and that is because we all need to learn and acquire qualities like discipline, time management, communications, creativity, etc.
At the same time, ALL human beings have the capacity to become creators.
But to become a creator and be in a position to create an amazing, joyful and fulfilling career, you must first realize that your current job is only a step on the stairway. You are capable of going much higher, much further.
But to go higher and further, you will need everything you’ve got. And that includes your passion, your talent, your values (or convictions) and your natural desire to be of service to others.
