If you are working at Goldman Sachs you are an artist
Art doesn’t have to mean paintbrush and a huge canvas. Spreadsheets and Bloomberg screens can produce art just as well.
If you are following orders, repeating steps, or getting managed, then even if it involves a paint brush and a canvas, it is merely a ‘job’. But if you are creating something that only you can make, that is changing someone or something in a way that only you can do, that challenges the status quo, then even if it involves spreadsheets and numbers, it’s Art.
You could be a numbers person, an analytics person, a systems person, a cleaning person. You are either an artist or a cog.
They told us that if we learn one thing, keep doing it over and over again till we become really good at it, that we’ll be ‘safe’. That life will be secure. But we weren’t meant to become cogs in the machine; we were just trained to be one.
The moving assembly line by Henry Ford which was the start of the Industrial revolution trained us to be what Seth Godin likes to call ‘Compliant Cogs’.
Today, systems are getting automated and jobs are getting outsourced faster than Kim K can take her next selfie.
Funnily enough, those of us who are making Art are safe. And those of us doing a ‘Job’ are anything but.
This is Day #24 of the 30 day writing challenge. Yesterday’s post was:
