Here’s an idea for formulating one’s beneficial worth to a community:
If you have a job serving the public, and you’re not doing it, then take the number of people you are not serving adequately, divide it by 10, and place those zeros to the left of one. Then put a decimal point at the beginning. That’s your beneficial worth to the community.
Because there’s one there, you still have the potential to offer something good. Just do it, and turn it all around. Let’s imagine that, instead of actually doing your job, you are spending your paid work time taking lots of breaks, gossiping, and going out for long lunches, etc.. If you are a staff person for the City of Somerville, a city of at least 100,000 members, and the previous sentence describes how you’re spending your workdays, then let’s be honest, your net benefit for the community isn’t much more than .000001, is it?!
Turn it all around- learn your job, become qualified- make it look like this: 100,000.
Whatever you’re doing, if you provide the seeds for more to be accomplished, if you are helping others with your work, then, no doubt, there are some zeros to the right of you. I’ll call you a Multiplicative Great One!
As for those who work quietly behind closed doors in anonymity… creating stuff that will enable millions…
You know this post is just for fun. You’re a Great One, two…
Mobius Transformation
Courtesy of Jos Leys
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