Comments on: Banker Compensation! http://www.arthshastra.com/post/265 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy http://www.arthshastra.com/post/265/comment-page-1#comment-69682 Roy Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:10:05 +0000 http://www.arthshastra.com/?p=265#comment-69682 I stumbled upon your blog and felt like I had to reply to this one. To clarify, i'm not a banker and I don't find anything appealing about the job either, but I do believe that everyone is born different and what is your definition of job sasfaction may not be someone else's. For you the innovation of the next smartphone and the next hybrid car may be very exciting. For someone else marketing those things may be more appealing. For another person selling those things may be rewarding. For yet another person bringing investors to take that product and build an international business around it may be the most interesting thing. You may not readily see money as a traditional product - but it is in fact a product because it can be created. More importantly there are no limits to how much and how fast it can be created. I don't see why that can't be exciting and a satisfying job for for someone. As far as big compensation goes, for some may value their job because it benefits others or gives them some sort of personal satisfaction, or has a element or creation and innovation. For others satisfaction may come from living in a big house, have nice cars, travel the world etc. So if a job can fulfil that need by giving you the money that makes those things more accessible, then why can't compensation itself be the satsfying component of a job? I stumbled upon your blog and felt like I had to reply to this one. To clarify, i’m not a banker and I don’t find anything appealing about the job either, but I do believe that everyone is born different and what is your definition of job sasfaction may not be someone else’s.

For you the innovation of the next smartphone and the next hybrid car may be very exciting. For someone else marketing those things may be more appealing. For another person selling those things may be rewarding. For yet another person bringing investors to take that product and build an international business around it may be the most interesting thing.

You may not readily see money as a traditional product – but it is in fact a product because it can be created. More importantly there are no limits to how much and how fast it can be created. I don’t see why that can’t be exciting and a satisfying job for for someone.

As far as big compensation goes, for some may value their job because it benefits others or gives them some sort of personal satisfaction, or has a element or creation and innovation. For others satisfaction may come from living in a big house, have nice cars, travel the world etc. So if a job can fulfil that need by giving you the money that makes those things more accessible, then why can’t compensation itself be the satsfying component of a job?

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