Your work determines your level of consciousness

[Samuel]

I had an insight about the importance of choosing a conscious career aligned to a strong life purpose. 

It might seem like a basic insight, but it just clicked for me.

The kind of career you have tends to set a limit to how conscious you can become.

If your work requires you to do a lot of manipulation, deceit and grifting, chances are very high that you won’t raise your LOC any higher because your paycheck requires you not to.

If your work is based around gratifying your ego, getting approval, sex, etc. that will also place a limit because you wont want to give up those benefits, even if they are holding you back from higher levels of development.

So this is why it’s so important to design a career that is at least on some level aligned with truth and consciousness, so that it can serve as a support for higher development, not a limit.

You don’t need to become a saint or yogi to do this btw. You can still pursue money, sex, status to burn through that karma. Just don’t make it the purpose of your career or you will pay the price of remaining at rat consciousness.

So choose your work wisely. Be smart and set things up so that becoming more conscious is aligned with your career. Expect yourself to become more and more conscious over the years.

[Lucasxp64]

This is my major problem. A part of myself is too ethically minded and doesn't wanna do certain things.

But at the same time, I want and need the money at this phase of my life so that later and even now, I don't have to submit myself to crap that would be directly damaging to me, or waste my time, or is both low conscious and low paying.

We have to do so much shit to survive already, we might as well do in a way that pays well.

BUT the trick here is to not become a consumerist zombie and use that wealth to buy expensive useless crap that will enslave you further with high lifestyle maintenance costs.

We must use that extra money beyond survival to acquire safety.

The ethical thing here, which is what many entrepreneurs do. They are just dedicated to using most of the money of profits just on the business, they are not going on a spending spree, they invest back into the business.

There is a balance between getting wealth for the sake of acquiring freedom, paying with some of our high ethical values, so paradoxically, we end up less likely to get in shitty situations that we have to degrade ourselves as well, so it might end up backfiring on us, we will be so desperate out of survival pressure that it can be way worse for our level of development. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Lucasxp64

[Miguel1]

Great insight. Glad to see you here as well brother.

The issue with this dilemma is that survival is brutal, especially as we are entering late stage capitalism. See Leo, even he had to succumb to Instagram REELS.

From 3 hour DEEP talks to 3 minute shorts in a platform designed for mindless zombies.

Also, you can definitely keep spiritual pursuits and career separate. Perhaps do something way less conscious for a few years, become financial free, and then drop it.

Edited 1 hour ago by Miguel1