The True Value of a Job

May 10, 2009 | Comments 0

When it comes to consider the choice between starting your own business vs. looking for a job, many different issues come to mind.
Women, as a whole, don’t earn as much as their male counterparts. This is referred to in the world as the “glass ceiling,” which Hillary Clinton boasted in her concession speech that she takes the credit for having made 18 million cracks in it.
But in truth, there is no glass ceiling. A person’s salary is completely dependent on their value that they offer the entity that employs them. And a woman generally brings less value to a business than her male counterpart.

Your ability to provide for your family does not rest upon you being granted with a high paying job. It rests in your ability to bring value to your place of employment. That value can come in the form of brains, it can come in the form of a skill, it can come in the form of what you can do, or it comes in the form of what you can sell.

Your job is to prove to the people that hold the “keys” to a job the value that you can bring them. Only then can you demand a certain salary and actually deserve it. That is the way to succeed in business and in life, by being a source of value wherever you are. You won’t need favors to get a job, and you won’t find yourself as the nuch-schlepper that everyone feels is getting a handout. You are getting paid what you are actually worth, and the investment the boss is making in you is being repaid by real value that you are providing in return.

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