Idiopaths

If you are not a fraud, nor a cheat, nor incompetent, not lazy, not frightened, nor a freak, not a sociopath, nor a psychopath, (let’s group them as idiopaths) then I would suggest that you use these simple filters to avoid employment that would make you a malcontent.

1. The organisation you work for has to be for profit

2. Your job has to have a meaningful impact on the profit of the organization

3. The profit of the organization can’t be the result of some government mandated legislation, monopoly or oligarchy. That is, the performance of the organization must impact its prospects for survival and growth, and also the prospects for survival and growth of the organization’s customers.

If these conditions are fulfilled then the people in the organization will care about you and the work you do. And then you will too.

It’s sad in a way that money is so important.

In fact it’s not; money (through profit) is simply a metric that uncovers the idiopaths.

There is no escaping the beautiful and ruthless measurement of performance in a truly competitive environment, other know as a profit.

Except that some people do escape, into organisations that fail the tests 1, 2 and/or 3.

If you aren’t an idiopath then I can assure you that the idiopaths will despise you for not being one.

So you need to avoid organisations that fail these tests, at all costs.