The Cost, the Fee — Truth

Daily Meditation 840–6/18/2024

Cheating may muscle you through to a degree, but when in the field using it, you may pay the cost of your false wisdom.

We all have things we need in our lives, and some of us, we provide for others.

We’ve got electricity, gas, rent, a mortgage, car payments, breakfast, lunch, dinner, children, gym memberships, insurance, clothing, water, daycare…

And more.

Just as often, we work jobs we are…well, less than enthused about. Maybe they’re okay jobs in our field, but more likely, they’re ones we are doing just to live. Cashiering, stocking shelves, changing reels at the theatre, serving soup at the luxurious hotel. Not really careers, but jobs we once said “I’m just doing this for now” which evolved into our careers.

And this is fine. We can do an entire DM all about “just” jobs and careers (and we have — woe to me to find it in the last 839 days of DMs…).

But, in many jobs we hold, we have to do things we may in fact greatly oppose.

Firing people who are qualified, but the cuts are just that deep.
Hiring people who are unqualified but you’ve got certain HR quotas to fill.
Cleaning up vomit from a customer because maintenance just went on their lunch…

Also, however, we may just be told to do something we morally object to.