The Emotional Wages of a Job
Posted in Salary & Benefits
When you first enter into a job, you probably will be looking first and foremost at the amount of money or compensation that you will be paid, right? Of course, it’s important that you consider the monetary benefits that you will be getting, after all, you are working to be able to pay the bills after all, right?
However, there are other things that you might want to consider when you’re already sizing up a company for a job. It’s important that you will always find that the emotional wages that you will be getting are just right for you. Be determined that your work will have these types of “compensations” along with it.
For other people, they would be able to consider a raise as coming from a $50,000-a-year-job to a $45,000-a-year-job simply because they get more emotional salary for it and therefore consider it as an increase.
For other people, money pales in comparison to the other benefits that you will be getting such as the following:
Security
Even though technically, no job is really secure, there are clearly some jobs in specific industries that are more stable than others. In order for you to be able to consider a job as secure, it should be a more established company rather than a startup.
The latter may be able to offer you a great adventure with them with the different growing pains of a newborn company but the older, more established ones are able to offer you possibly less money and increased sleep at night. For some people, all that matters is that when they wake up the next morning, their company hasn’t gone to the dogs.
Flexibility
There are those people who are okay with the whole 9 to 5 work schedule. Going full time in corporate seems to be their way of life but with other people, it isn’t. There are those who are utterly turned off by the concept of just staying in an office and relish the opportunity to call their own shots and schedule their own time when they want to.
The flexibility of a job will be one of the factors that people will look into when they look for a job. For them, it’s important that a job has flexible working hours in order to accommodate them.
Creative Freedom
There are people who simply cannot stand the saying, “We’ve always done it this way.” The prospect of not exercising the mind is simply impossible for some people. There are those people who have become accustomed to having enough creative license to do what they have to do in order to get the job done. You have to ask yourself: “Is having the creative license more important to me than financial compensation?”
These are just but a few of the emotional wages that people most often look at when they are either looking for a job for the first time or thinking about applying to another. Simply remember that if you are emotionally drained, unhappy and dreading work, then you might have been shortchanged with your emotional wages. Think it through. You might discover that you can be “paid more” elsewhere.
