{"id":47287,"date":"2023-05-05T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=47287"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T12:02:25","slug":"your-work-is-not-a-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/your-work-is-not-a-commodity\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Work is Not a Commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"These days, most of us don\u2019t have a vocation but a job. This isn\u2019t because we change our work so frequently (basically every\u00a03-5 years\u00a0for the average American), but because we work for money. Your work is not a commodity. It\u2019s your reason for being here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe word \u2039vocation\u203a comes from the Latin\u00a0vocare, which means \u2039to call\u203a. To have a vocation then, really means to have a\u00a0calling. So it doesn\u2019t matter if our work changes - our calling isn\u2019t necessarily related to just one task, it can be a thread weaving through many - what matters is the way we\u00a0listen\u00a0to our calling. This calling has to do with our destiny; it brings us in touch with how we\u2019re meant to serve. Rudolf Steiner described this calling as one\u2019s karma. For most of us, it\u2019s always hard to hea<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, most of us don\u2019t have a vocation but a job. This isn\u2019t because we change our work so frequently (basically every\u00a03-5 years\u00a0for the average American), but because we work for money. Your work is not a commodity. It\u2019s your reason for being here. The word \u2039vocation\u203a comes from the Latin\u00a0vocare, which means \u2039to call\u203a. To have a vocation then, really means to have a\u00a0calling. So it doesn\u2019t matter if our work changes &#8211; our calling isn\u2019t necessarily related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12467,"featured_media":47288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8808,8762],"tags":[8814],"class_list":["post-47287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-economics","category-goetheanum","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}