Truthful and well-paying jobs.

[Vynce]

Hey guys, since I'm actively searching for new jobs, and actively following Leo's blog posts. 

And it seems to be that being good at business, generating money, being good at sales ect. is somewhat directly correlated with the exploitation of ignorant people.

Ergo the more ignorant someone is, the easier it is to sell him something. 

And even if I would not work as a sales person directly, chances are high that being a well paid employee of a company means that the company leaches of the ignorance of their costumers somewhere else. Am I right?

To make it even more a abstract: Truth ≠ Money

However I want to make money, and don't want to sacrifice truth all together. Of course I don't want to make millions and don't want to become the next Jesus. So there is certainly some leeway in that equation for me.

So, do you guys, know of any jobs, that are simultaneously truthful, well-paid and personal developing? 

My thought was to work in solar sales, because it is well-paying, at least not directly bad to the environment (maybe even good) and certainly needs more development on my side.

Curious what you think. 

[The Renaissance Man]

Life Purpose Course is about this specifically. Or more broadly the idea of a life purpose: making a living through bringing unique, massive value. Win-win situation.

[Vynce]

@The Renaissance Man
 

I’ve done the life purpose course. No real value bringing idea arose out of that. Just became more clear on my passions and values. But many interest don’t relate to the physical world that easily. 
 

For example my interest in psychedelic therapy via psylocibin, ketamine or 5-Meo can really only be done through a proper psychological bachelors degree. Which I stopped after 2 years, because it was so darn boring and out of my interest zone. 

Of course you can bootstrap a therapy program by yourself and with the internet. But that takes years of practice, learning, volunteering, self experimenting ect. 

Which doesn’t pay my bills. 

This is usually how my ideas came to a stop. 

Also because I cant focus on a single project for long just on my self. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Vynce

[Yimpa]

Perhaps being untruthful consciously is the solution. Being honest with yourself that you’re not selfless and have survival needs, and that’s perfectly fine.

After all, isn’t judging yourself for not being truthful coming from a place of ignorance ad well? 

[Vynce]

46 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

Perhaps being untruthful consciously is the solution. Being honest with yourself that you’re not selfless and have survival needs, and that’s perfectly fine.

After all, isn’t judging yourself for not being truthful coming from a place of ignorance ad well? 

True, but wouldn't this attitude excuse every destructive behaviour in general?

Where to draw the line, for whats really necessary for survival, personal survival and my ideas of survival.

Isn't everything evil, just a survival strategy? 

WHERE IS THE LINE?!

[The Renaissance Man]

Dan Koe said it really well: solve your own problems, then sell the solution.

Solving your own problems gives you special competences that the market needs, and there you go.

A degree is not needed unless you need to be a surgeon, a civic engineer, or whatever.

But if you're currently searching for a job, solar sales may be great. You can always evolve from there in 1, 5, 15 years. Really, nobody ever said you have to start off with your life purpose. It's often just unrealistic and naive to think that way.

It should be an objective to live off that, in the long run, for the most fulfilling life. Right now you could clean toilets, and it could make sense in the grand scheme of things.

On the other hand:

• What's the alternative? If you don't care about doing your life purpose enough, then it's alright to do something else. But the idea of a life purpose is about ambition, not settling.

• 2 hours ago, Vynce said:

  But that takes years of practice, learning, volunteering, self experimenting ect. 

  Think you can create a successful business/life purpose without this? Not in theory, in hard, raw practice? It's very unlikely.