Most people now use
their debit card to make purchases. As a result, no actual money changes hands,
so you can translate everything into hours worked. If you make$15.oo an hour
you can say that a bill of $150.00 from Comcast (that’s a more friendly number
then people are used to, remember this is an example) will cost you 10 hours of
work.
TIME, how important is it? Well there are whole departments
much like Resource Planning or Workforce management whose sole purpose is to manage
the time of a call centers, manufacturing, packaging or large workforce. Mature companies understand that a small
investment in these planners will reap huge rewards in time management and efficiency.
We all know we have a limited number of days in our lives, we grow, we age and
we only have a certain number of “work” days in our life.
How important is time to you? That is the question of this
age. We often hear “I don’t get paid enough to do that.” however; there are
people who work hard for next to nothing. If we use time to pay for everything
in our lives and we translate that to money we look into “How much is your hour
worth.” I would challenge: that is up to you. You have to do the math for
yourself, I did some dirty math (quick math in my head using rounded and
estimated numbers) and found that my hour is worth to me $29.82.
Where did I get that number? You ask, well I added my house, cost of repairs, cost of my
hobbies, estimated cost of raising my children and so on for 20 years. This is based on 40 hour week, this is my “needed”
hour rate to do what I want in life. This being determined I had to ask myself:
“Am I working as if I deserve $29.82 an hour?” That’s easy, no I am not. It’s
something I am working on and soon I would like to say I put in that kind of
day. So this is what I ask you, are you giving 100% of what you think you
deserve out of life? Are you putting in enough to deserve what you make? Or do
you want to be in a place that lets you live your dreams. I am not saying it’s
easy and I am not saying everyone can do it, but are you trying? Are you
putting forth the effort that even without the product you are working to earn
what you want? If not you never will.
You can’t expect to find
yourself in a position that pays you what you want to be paid to do all those
things in life you want and need if you don’t act like it. Attitude and drive are missing today because people have forgotten the real
value in money, it’s not about a piece of paper that you trade for the things
you want, it’s about the hours of your life you gave to have that item. Is that
thing you want but don’t need worth the hours you spent working for it?
If you
aren't making what you want to make are you working as if you deserve it now? My commitment to myself is to work for what like I deserve what I want to get paid. I challenge you to do the same.
Jack Rudd Jr is a Resource Planning Professional with more than 10 years experience in contact centers. He has a BS in Business Information Systems and resides in Maple Falls, Washington with his wife Christa and 4 children: Cara. Xander, Magnus and Dorian. You can learn more about Jack by visiting his LinkedIn Profile.
