By Raúl Gorrín. In all our lives
true happiness is only achieved when we have proper balance. Love and work are
said to be the cornerstones of being human and both are very important for
happiness. Yet juggling the demands of each can be difficult.
We have set up our societal system to achieve
its balance with barter. A community or another person needs a good or
service and you can provide that service then you are compensated for your
labor with money. This money in exchange will allow you to buy other products
or services. An entrepreneur is a person who organizes and operates a
business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order
to do so.
A teacher, as an example, goes in the her job
to teach her class and she expects to get paid for it. That is her
business side. Her entrepreneurial side. If one day her school was to
tell her that she will no longer be paid then her entrepreneurial side will
dictate that she not show up to work and look for some other work. A business
owner must weigh taking on a job as to see how it will be to his benefit. Will
this job make him a profit? Will this job help grow the business? That is
our business side that must weigh the benefits of doing a particular job
against the time, effort, cost and risk involved before deciding to
accept. The entrepreneur can make a living that can increase his standard of
living. This us what the business world and working is all about.
Each of us also has a humanistic side to us.
That is that inner voice in us that compels us to want to do nice things for
others. Let's use the example of the teacher. The teacher has a skill
that can be used to make money. She goes to work and is compensated for it. If
a child needs extra help, she can be available to tutor the child and be paid
as a tutor. This is being practical. Food, rent , clothes , cars, entertainment
all cost money. It's providing this service that will pay for these goods. But
let's says there is s child in the class that is in poor financial shape. That
child because of circumstance can not read. This teacher may want to tutor this
child for free. Maybe the teacher would help the family with some clothes and
money.
Inside of that teacher there is a struggle.
One that says, teaching us your profession. It's how you get paid. It's how you
pay your bills. There is another internal struggle within the teacher that
says, "I want to help this person, I do not care about the money. I like
helping other people because it makes me feel good. I don't want money for
it". That is this teachers humanistic side.
Every person and every organization or
business must figure out a balance between what makes us a profitable unit and
what makes us human. Of course we need to make our profit but we all share this
planet together. By helping others, we s how've s certain balance that gives us
a satisfaction and happiness that money can not buy.(Raúl Gorrín)
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