Robert Frank The Calculable Value Of Finding A Job You Love Summary

According to ‘The Incalculable Value of Finding a Job You Love’ written by Robert H. Frank, said that “Money matter but not in the way you may think”, illustrating that in today’s world, society focuses on finding jobs not that they love and enjoy, but a job that will allow people to pay their bills. Frank also mentions that people want to be able to have a job that “When most people leave work each evening, they feel better if they have made the world better in some way, or at least haven’t made it worse”, however those jobs tend to pay less while society aims for jobs that do pay well, which Frank quotes “But moral satisfaction alone won’t pay the rent”. In the textbook ‘Communication in everyday life’ written by Steve Duck and David McMahan,
In that being said, due to our parents influencing us on what is better in a workplace, we all tend to do something that gives us money and not what we love doing. Frank also stated that’s “societies with higher incomes tend to also enjoy cleaner air and water, better schools, less noisy environments, safer working conditions, longer life expectancy and many other obvious benefits” (Frank, 2016). Moreover, Frank also mentions something really important in his article and said that because ‘technology has steadily extended the geographic reach of those who are best at what they do. If even a tiny fraction of a sufficiently large group of buyers cares about your service, you may be worth a
However, not only does the society go for jobs that benefits them, but while in the work field they have to present a professional face as well, indicating that ‘the behavior, courtesy, and comportment are appropriate for people to present to others in a workplace’ which means that people cannot make an appearance as their own personality but an identity that carry over from your normal practices of everyday talk into the workplace, but some parts of your identity are transformed by the workplace, which is defined as continuation of identity in the textbook. This can also relate to what Frank quotes in the article and said ‘What’s more, as the years pass, you will almost surely develop deep expertise at whatever it is you’ve been doing’ (Frank, 2016), indicating that sooner or later you will begin to continue that professional face in the outside world and wouldn’t even noticed you are doing it because of the skills you have developed over