Productive Performance

The deal most of us have is that we work to survive. Some of us get to do work that fulfils a deeper purpose than that, and some of us enjoy the benefits of paid work we really connect with. Most of us have to deal with being productive assets. Life as a job description. The first insurance I bought when I started working (my first post studies job was in Risk Product Development) was Disability Cover, Severe Illness Cover, and Future Cover (the ability to get cover I hadn’t thought of without medical tests). All these protected my ability to earn an income. If I was still alive, but was no longer “a productive asset”. I kept this cover until my Engine was bigger than the amount I would get if something went wrong. Part of my decision to stop working for money in 2014 was a distaste at being a productive asset. At being weighed, measured, and paid. Capital is far better suited to paid work than people. Not everything that counts can be counted. The biggest strength of Capital is empowering people to choose the nature of work that they do. Perhaps work that can’t be simplified into performance measures.