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I am sick of of business in general...making people buy things they don't need, all that sales bullcrap...making profits and everything is about the bottom line and rarley about employees or the community
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<p>OMG.... we've been present at the Birth of a Liberal!</p>
<p>Sort of ;)</p>
<p>Does anyone else think the OP should rent Say Anything and watch especially closely the rant by John Cusack on his plans for the future. One of my favorite moments in movies.</p>
<p>Edit: I found it -LOL. </p>
<p>Lloyd Dobler: I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.</p>
<p>hahaha I didn't realize I kind of sounded like Cusack in that movie! Ha, that's funny. Thanks for all of your advice guys!</p>
<p>Groovinhard: these days, with the internet, all you need to open a business is an idea, a tiny inventory, and a Google Adwords account. The bike accessories business my husband and I run (and now get a nice income from) was started by two middle school students on EBay--the sons of the other owner.</p>
<p>If you were to work as a business manager for a school district, and help them improve the ways they deliver services, you could do a lot of good for kids and save taxpayers money.</p>
<p>If you market textbooks or learning materials produced by a publishing company, you'd be working for a profit business but the product at least helps improve the world, because school books help kids learn.</p>
<p>If you market in the world of theater, you help people see plays and experience literature, or just enjoy their evenings.</p>
<p>If you love sports and market in the professional sports world, I guess it's along the same lines as my last point, but for another audience.</p>
<p>If you market anything that people NEED, such as eyeglasses, you might feel better about it than selling cosmetics or anything else that people want.
Think about the difference between what people need and what they want. If you sell what they need, you're helping make their lives more productive.
Market hearing aids, wheelchairs, rehab equipment...rather than sunglasses, coach bags and cars. </p>
<p>Also, if you treat your employees or colleagues honestly in the workplace, that's also ethical, even if you're all making a profit.</p>
<p>Or sell condoms. There's a product that does the world a LOT of good!</p>
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Think about the difference between what people need and what they want.
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I'm sorry to be obnoxious here, but I don't agree. I think the difference would be what the poster feels is important or valuable versus what the poster feels is superfluous. There is very, very little that people actually need. People want eyeglasses to see. I personally think that is an important product. But glasses are produced by Disney, Coach, Nine West, car companies, clothing companies, etc. All major companies that produce glasses are going to want to add anti-glare or UV protection or this or that in order to make more money. They are going to work on making glasses as fashionable as possible. The goal in any business is to make a profit; if the poster has a problem with this, well, that's life in America. The line between what people "need" (in everyday usage) and what people want is very thin, and businesses/marketing try to make people think they need what they actually just want.</p>
<p>coarranged,
Point well taken.
I'm going back to teaching, where I'm a wage slave but my product is: teaching children how to read.
As Pete Seeger once wrote about being a parent, "I get paid in the highest wages: kisses!</p>
<p>Agreed, good post. Reminds me of the quote (which I can't find just now) about "people spending money they don't have to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like" YMMV of course :)</p>