Danilo is a tech-savvy young professional
who applied for a middle-level managerial job in a technology driven
organization. He applied there because of the high salary that it pays. After
going through a battery of examinations he was eventually hired. However, after
a year he resigned; when he was asked by his superior why he is resigning, he
said, “I don’t’ find my purpose in this employment.”
Do you know the purpose of your
employment? Many of us think that the purpose of our employment is to earn a
living. This is partly true but to earn a living is not the sole purpose of our
employment. Otherwise there would be no resignation of high-salaried employees
and executives.
The purpose of our employment is to find
meaning and connection in that employment. This simply tells us that we need to
look at our jobs as a vocation and not simply a means of livelihood to sustain
us everyday. If we treat our jobs as a vocation we surely would find meaning
and purpose in that job that we hold or occupy.
However, this is not the reality on the
ground, many of us treat or look at our jobs simply as a means to sustain our
everyday needs and that’s it. How can we have the mindset so that we would look
at our jobs as a vocation and not simply as a means of livelihood?
The brunt of responsibility rest upon the
executives of the organization. How would they craft an idea or a method so
that the job would also be a vocation? A job is simply a job its an activity in
an organization in exchange for payment. A vocation is very different, this is
something that we do because we love to do it: this is a calling and a
career.
So, how would organizational executives
transform an ordinary job to a vocation? They have to create a meaningful
reason for the employees to do that job. They have to create a deeper
connection between the employees and the job that they do.
When the organizational executives are
able to discover that meaning and connection. Then and only then would the job
morph into a vocation. A vocation that will not only benefit the organization
but the employees as well. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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