A job is something that you do that is of value to someone else - that someone else then does something for you in exchange. Of course, since we often do things for people who have nothing to offer us directly, we do an indirect trade… through use of tokens we call money.
The resource that is most critical to a typical job, is time. From there, of course, the concept time is money.
Yea, seems I’m branching this blog into economics now. I don’t think I really know that much about economics, but that just might make it so much more fun and interesting! And hopefully someone will correct me when I utter nonsense. 
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1 Gericke // Jun 6, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Hmmm. Time is a series of valuable experiences. An experience is valuable if it has meaning (which is to say, it solves a problem or fulfills a need).
It is therefore these valuable experiences that we assign a monetary value to. A job is a request by another person to use specific experiences to fulfill a need or solve a problem in return for money (as a symbolic exchange of value). We do this because no single person can have all experiences. That would make our existence silly.
Value can either be intrinsic (that which we cannot exist without) or ascribed (the rest). Money has ascribed value - it is as valuable as we make it.
There are some experiences we gather for the purpose of exchange (most studies) and there are experiences that define who we are. What I find interesting to see is the crisis so many young individuals have when they want to live out those defining experiences (I love painting pictures, or I love caring for animals that are really sick) and then try to assign monetary value to it.
How do you put a price on who you are?
2 Hugo // Jun 6, 2007 at 3:08 pm
The moment you put a price on who you are, you are limiting yourself, don’t you think?
3 Gericke // Jun 6, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Precisely.
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