There’s a lot going on recently on a professional level. Between the requests from third parties to work as freelance on this or that project that I don’t have time to work on, and the questions raised during my daily job, I ended up questioning what kind of professional I am.
Not an easy question, and the answer might seem overly simplified, omitting a lot of shades of gray. Still, I think that contrast helps sometimes. I ended up opposing two profiles:
- People who want to get involved in a project and get paid for it.
- People who want to get paid and work on something for that amount of money.
Thinking about it, we might oscillate between both at times…
I would call the first Professional because their aim is to help people without the know‑how. They want to give satisfaction: to the people they work with first, then their own as a consequence. Workers will be here to do whatever is asked by the people they’re working for.
The first profile is more likely to be proactive and question ready‑made decisions in a constructive way, whereas people waiting for the paycheck will do whatever needs to be done to get the planned outcome, without much added value.
In this very narrowed down perspective, your profile might be summarized with one question: Do you care?