Wealth creation is about choices you make

Recently in my company, we encountered many incidents of people violating operation protocol and the quality of the products were being affected. Because of the poor quality, the management enforced all operators to follow strictly on the protocol, or they may faced losing their job if they caused another quality issue. Unfortunately, another quality issue occurred in few days time and this time the operator lose his job. During a debrief to the engineers and managers, the head of the department raised his voice to his people on the most recent case due to the questioning from his people on the releasing of the operator.

This is what he said:

"Anyone of you think that he cannot agree on the dismisses of the operator and feel that he cannot work in this environment, he is free to walk out from his job. If he can not take the requirement of releasing his people, he can always go and sell burgers. I do not enjoy releasing this person, but I do not have a choice because this is my job. Anyone of you thinking that I actually enjoy terminating people from this department! he must be crazy."

The point I want to make here is that, many of us choose the career after we get out from school, and then we try to make our career our passion. In the example above, the department head is in his 40's. At the position he is holding in the company, with the salary he is drawing, he know that he is not going to get another job that pay him the same money. It is too late for him to think of a career switch, he is stuck in his current job regardless if he love his work, regardless if he has passion for it. Many of us fall into the same catergory, where we find ourselves too comfortable to a certain situation. By the time, they realized that they lost passion on their job, it is too late to make a switch.

Many of us, feel comfortable even we do not love what we are doing because of the good money the job paid us. We forced ourselves daily to do the job we have lost passion of because we think the money is good. Over the years of staying with the job, we created a certain high living for ourselves and our family. We will not wanted to lose our position even though our passion for our job is getting lesser by the day. Eventually passion changed to hatred but we still refused to make the switch. We feel demoralized and fastrated, yet we refuse to change. Years passed, we get promotion and more pay, our life style get better and more difficult to change. At the end, we will just have to dig our own grave for our passion and dream we have plan to pursuit years back.

It is important that in the process of creating and discovering our wealth, we also need to pursuit the dream and passion we love to have. It is all about balancing. It is all about choices. It is critical that we must first look for our passion, and then make the passion into our career. The whole point of wealth creation and discovering is to do what you love and love what you do.

It is purposeless if you are unhappy with what you are doing even you can make all the money in the world. If you do that, it is just the beginning of creating your own disaster.

Creating wealth is all about choices you make. The right choice will allow you not to sell burger and be unhappy, but to buy McDonald the business and yet be happy. Which choice you make?