Proper Compensation

 

To truly receive proper compensation that is worth it, you must make it worthwhile to the person to whom you are providing service in every way possible and perhaps a little better to deserve what you want and/or need. That is what comes to mind when I hear the word compensation. When I do something, I don't think about doing the bare minimum or "getting by." I'm considering going all out. The best is the best, and the only way to beat the best is to be inventive and different, not so much better after the best has been done.

In fact, "imaginative effort" is the most powerful form of compensation. That entails discovering new and better, more efficient ways of doing things, particularly those in which you have a strong interest. When you combine that with doing something that needs to be done for pay, you become truly and morally rich in so many ways.When I think of compensation and doing the job correctly, I think of improving and bettering the way the job is done, rather than simply doing it correctly. When you use your imagination to improve a job, you are no longer just selling widgets or working the shift; you are a genuine professional who is making a job better. Writing from experience, the weakest thing you can do is simply do a job and then go home without improving or making something better within the framework of the work.In fact, hating your job or doing it solely for the money is the most heinous thing you can do. Boxer Ken Norton unintentionally taught me that one about three decades before this was written. Getting by or making a living without emotion or imagination is the most deplorable and impoverished way to live. A lot of reality and potential is squandered in that way of life!

So, when I think of appropriate compensation, I think of more than just money. It is a genuine investment in all ways that matter, including emotionally and spiritually. However, without that investment, it is just a job and you only get money or "enough to get by."

With that warning, I conclude this article on this note: Reality, in order to be truly real to people, must be fully worked with in terms of time, emotional, and spiritual investment, or it is nothing.

My name is Joshua Clayton, and I work as a freelance writer in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen names and aliases, but my real name is Joshua Clayton, and I mostly write under that now. I am a philosopher, objective thinker, and truthful action taker. My day job is at a senior centre in Gardena, California, among other things, but I am primarily a writer.