Graduates are newly bestowed with the onus of crafting a successful career. Any successful leader is perpetually evaluating and re-evaluating career options and decisions. The path to career happiness starts with making choices. The choices you face are simple in theory, but difficult in practice. The most inescapable lure is money. Money, or your salary, is a quantifiable benchmark to measure your success against your peers. Our professional paths so quickly fall into the groove of what our peers are doing, and what will appear successful to them. Some are aware that their job is not right, but are afraid of making a mistake, so they wait for the ‘perfect opportunity’ to come along next. Turn your attention to the most successful leaders, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, anyone of your choosing, and you will find this to be true. You may sign up for the thankless task, take the job that seems less prestigious, turn down more money, and so on. Money, the shinier of the two, is always the more alluring. Money is one-dimensional, it has no depth. Choosing impact over money is difficult, especially at the outset, because impact does not yield immediate returns. It will beat money at its own game, but it takes time. But the people who choose to optimize their professional lives against the sole metric of money, are doomed to become one-dimensional and unhappy themselves. It would be like throwing away a quarter of your life. The reality is the tug-of-war between money and purpose is an ongoing struggle that leaders continuously face throughout their careers.
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