Greetings

Sounds like you need to get laid more.

Just kidding.

Welcome

This is a good question and deserves an answer. It’s not about money. I’m always amazed humans sell their souls cheap for slips of green paper. It’s about psychecentric evolution in my entire life. The current state would permit me to scale my work week down and spend more hours on civic and personal projects. A friend suggested this summer that I sell. It’s an intriguing idea. But your question, to be fair, assumes things that are not true. The work wouldn’t be harder, just refocused away from my previous business model. Building the book is not challenging. It’s a psychic act of Will, the result is a consequence of that decision. But after consideration I want to stay, for several reasons. The business keeps me in touch with several powerful centers of influence I leverage for my own interests. A secular profession balances my metaphysical and religious studies. And it keeps me in touch with colleagues from GS - one of my best friends from my time there now works in portfolio management on a fund many of you might use. Rewriting my plan will keep me fresh and sharp. Business is Darwinian, and as a professional I must be an ever evolving creature in a environment that exists on a razor’s edge. The revenue goal is merely an arbitrarily assigned number. I had to pick a figure, and it seemed achievable. Many of my peers here produce at levels far higher. I don’t feel a failure, but like anyone else, I experience a competitive compulsion from time to time.

46.

Obviously female

Fitness1983 wrote: Obviously female

We’ve been fooled before

Edit: but I don’t think my question is on the approved list

Edited by bc2051 - Nov/26/2017 at 9:56pm

You got me to laugh.

Edited by SinisterSister - Nov/27/2017 at 9:16am

You seem too good to not be Scooby.

SinisterSister wrote: This is a good question and deserves an answer. It’s not about money. I’m always amazed humans sell their souls cheap for slips of green paper. It’s about psychecentric evolution in my entire life. The current state would permit me to scale my work week down and spend more hours on civic and personal projects. A friend suggested this summer that I sell. It’s an intriguing idea. But your question, to be fair, assumes things that are not true. The work wouldn’t be harder, just refocused away from my previous business model. Building the book is not challenging. It’s a psychic act of Will, the result is a consequence of that decision. But after consideration I want to stay, for several reasons. The business keeps me in touch with several powerful centers of influence I leverage for my own interests. A secular profession balances my metaphysical and religious studies. And it keeps me in touch with colleagues from GS - one of my best friends from my time there now works in portfolio management on a fund many of you might use. Rewriting my plan will keep me fresh and sharp. Business is Darwinian, and as a professional I must be an ever evolving creature in a environment that exists on a razor’s edge. The revenue goal is merely an arbitrarily assigned number. I had to pick a figure, and it seemed achievable. Many of my peers here produce at levels far higher. I don’t feel a failure, but like anyone else, I experience a competitive compulsion from time to time.

It is always about the money because that is how you are choosing to set your goals. If it is truly about maintaining relationships with influential people and you feel that only business is keeping you in touch with them then you should reflect as to who are you to them. 

SinisterSister wrote: All relationships, our professions, financial resources, educational and personal studies are a means to some end. The stated goal is incidental. Wealth, income, sex, pleasure, political power are all transient. They can be here today and gone tomorrow. Most people equate temporal happiness with these achievements. You desire absolute control in a way possible only with money. What would happen if your wealth evaporated and your career ended? What I want is to Become.

Legit question: as former philosophy major...what specific satisfaction are you deriving from posting on these topics right here, right now.

In as concise a manner as possible