Why ‘Jobs Money Life’?

Jobs. Money. Life. This is a place of refuge from the chaotic whiplash of the world. Jobs, money, and all the things in between that we call life are fragile, important, powerful, and, when we’re driven by fear rather than led by wisdom, meaningless.

This is not a place for quick answers or snake oil. What you find here won’t scream at the fear-sensing parts of your brain to try and get you to spend more time, more attention on this screen.

This is a place for processing. It’s a diving board to thinking deeply about your time on this earth, and what these relatively absurd day to day choices mean for it. It’s a chance to come to know yourself, and to bring your life into a realm that makes you whole.

Why talk about ‘Jobs Money Life’?

Jobs are a way to sustain yourself and your family. Ultimately, we al have the goal of sustaining ourselves without one (that’s called retirement). Most of us want that freedom. Jobs are the foundational path to achieve it – but that doesn’t make them all equal. So much is in a job – growth, socializing, enjoyment, balance, compensation that enables your personal dreams of freedom. When things are going well, they’re the most powerful path toward pushing for your own freedom. But it’s impossible to get everything from one job, so we make compromises and decisions that can feel forced. A job exists in a complex ecosystem of an organization, and the greater industry and world in which that organization is positioned. We spend 35-40 hours a week, or more, at them often with the feeling that they are taking more than they are giving. You need your job. And you need it to need you. But you can’t give your life to it either. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Money is how you show value to many things in your life. You make choices every day on how to allocate it. Or perhaps you let others make choices for you. Spending money on superficial things to show affection shows you think about affection in a superficial way. Spending money on freedom, security, and health shows maturity in your readiness to show up for people in your life. The most valuable thing you can buy with your money is your time and your freedom.

Life – yours and that of those you love – is ultimately what this is all meant to be about. It’s what brings meaning to anything in the other two categories. Yet we so often relegate this very thing to the bottom of the ladder even when we’re trying to serve it. Deriving meaning and joy from your day, your actions, and your interactions is what makes us whole, and what makes us feel like we’ve lived.

In this place, we talk about how jobs, money and life interact, how they oppose each other, and how they can help each other on the road to the real goal: your freedom.