The Program.
Regardless of your academic and professional results, you are going to invest 40 years or 80,000 hours of your life into work for the average salary. Worse still, it’s probably on things you don’t even care about.
Your career is a game but you have only been taught one game plan and it looks like this:
Production is measured by hours worked, and until recently, they needed to be visible.
We don’t value time and so we think we have plenty and give it away, therefore 80000 seems like a really good investment, subconsciously anyway.
We believe income / salary has a normal distribution i.e. the bell curve. It does not. It follows the Vilfredo law of 80/20. According to Vilfredo Pareto, the 80/20 rule, wealth / income is going to be shared unevenly, 20% will get most of it, no matter what.
You will therefore follow the try and tested path of:
Believing the only way to increase our salary is to work more hours e.g. 9*7*7, 10*6*6 etc (NB: I am not suggesting hard work isn’t admirable or necessary but in the right direction)
Measuring salary, not the hourly rate which means we rarely think about reducing the denominator i.e. hours worked.
We overinvest in people and problems that have almost no impact on either salary or time.
There a different way.
The Career Game exists to maximise your earning potential with the smallest investment of your time.