Professor Bob Bontempo reveals how to self-awareness and emotional intelligence can enhance your income and career. Bontempo is the faculty director of Columbia Business School Executive Education’s “Persuasion: Influencing Without Authority.”

You can literally find wealthy people in any industry/profession. Yes, the average and the medium income differs from one industry to another, but why waste your life as an average-jo in something you don’t like when you can excel in something you do like?

So, work your passion, and money will follow you, inshaAllah.

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Watch this New York Times video of Rock-climbers who found a job that puts their skill to work and yet pays them for practicing their hobbies! Tied to the Job: Watch Matt Touchette and Sequoia Haughey’s commute to the “office” is 250 feet up.

Earlier I wrote about escaping the Caste System. Maybe it’s time for you to set yourself free and genuinely feel HAPPY.

Related Readings:

Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, by Pamela Slim

I was reading about the Untouchables and caste system in India and it came to my mind the parallel caste system that we have in our “modern” industrial society, from the school system to corporate job title definitions.

Many Muslim parents have defined/dictated a set of study fields and occupations for their children. These choices (or restrictions) not only limit the potentials of their children but also lead to a narrow view to Allah’s Rizq (provision).

As if we have no future, unless we took that haram student loan, or bought properties using haram mortgages. As if our Rizq only comes during Jumaah prayer or only by working in haram businesses or jobs.

We, the caste members of the modern economic caste system, are far more outrageous than the Untouchables, because often time we lock ourselves into these “casted” job even that we can escape from them.

May Allah liberate us from being slaves to jobs or money.

Related Readings:

If you are currently locked in a corporate caste system. Read this book, Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, it may liberate you.