Value, Money & Worth: A Sense Of Entitlement?

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A sense of entitlement always comes from offering value and expecting a reward in return, however, because we have different or distinctive definitions of value, it's always difficult to measure value, especially from a giver and receiver's point of view.

I've seen jobs online where the employees are asked to weigh themselves in dollars and put a figure to how much they're worth after they've offered proof of what they can offer. Let's look at this scenario.

In Nigeria, people with Ph.D. or an MSC mostly value themselves based on the degree they have and not the skills they're willing to offer and this is because they've spent a lot of money to acquire these degrees.

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Preference To Skills & Experience

Spending money and time on a venture brings a certain expectation of returns, that's why some people value themselves on what they've spent to acquire certain enablement rather than the skill they have to offer itself. It's why people often overestimate their abilities and wrongly place a worth on the value they're going to offer.

One of the reasons why some job opportunities ask people to provide working experiences is because the skills they've acquired through these experiences are what might determine how well they'll do.

So in the world, it's difficult to value ourselves monetarily, unless we're self-employed and managed to build a successful business venture on our own, without this, our worth is often in the salaries we get from some jobs.

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Value, Worth & Accomplish

However, we might say there is an intrinsic worth that these companies are not seeing in us, it'll be sentimental to say we hold intrinsic value without having achieved anything with this "worth" we claim to have.

The sense of entitlement is often embedded in everyone because we feel that we're valuable and anything we give out should be proportionally measured based on our assessment of who we are. Don't get me wrong.

A lot of people are overvalued, while some people are undervalued. But everyone industry in the world will never value people the same way. For example, an average footballer player might be earning $10,000 a week, while a hardworking CEO of a tech company that same 10k a week.

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The Incessant Craze For Relevance

If their roles were switched, they'll not be valued the same way anymore. It's the way the world works, sometimes the value we place on ourselves might be aggrandizing. However, if we're working a job that overestimates our abilities and skills and pays even when our productivity isn't evenly matched.

It might be that we've been valuable over time, bringing in deals and enriching the company so even when we attain diminishing returns and no longer deliver, they might still keep paying for passive services.

The world is plagued with jobs where one's worth is based on the level of productivity that they can offer on a daily, this is why some people achieve nothing even if they spend 30 years working in a particular establishment.

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Self-Investment; The Right Form Of Value?

In reality, everyone needs a job that outrightly values them the way they'll value themselves because it brings a sense of belonging, fairness, and worth. However, these jobs are difficult to come by.

Sometimes it's oddly good to undervalue ourselves especially if we're working hard to improve.

Some people place themselves at the uttermost pinnacle of worth, because of the self-investment they've made in themselves but the truth is, we cannot cajole people to measure us exactly the way we'd measure ourselves and this is why we have to constantly improve ourselves to be worth the value we see in ourselves.

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