If You Desire Meaning in Your Life Look Beyond The Corporate Ladder

It’s time to embrace a new symbol other than the corporate ladder.

We all know the symbol, and we buy into it whether or not we’re on it.

We accept it for the symbol it is, and there’s a pride associated with it that drives us to climb it.

But why?

Because it’s what we’ve been conditioned to do from an early age by family, friends, and society.

Get good grades, attend a good university, begin your career, and then climb the corporate ladder.

It’s what we should do.

As we climb the ladder, our compensation rises, and as a result, we experience more power — both through our title and increased purchasing power.

Our jobs may not provide purpose, meaning, or fulfillment, so we leverage our buying power to purchase what we’ve been conditioned to purchase so that we can feel pleasure.

Whatever it may be, the right car, clothes, watches, country club membership, wine.

Those things make us feel good at the moment, but quick highs fade quickly and don’t fill the hole we feel in our lives.

We assume more is the answer.