Sadhguru answers a question on how important salary is in choosing a job, and looks at how one should gauge the true worth of one’s activity.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）回答了选择工作时薪水的重要性，并阐述一个人该如何衡量活动的真正价值。
Question: I have a choice between working in a high-paying job, and another one that I really like, but where the pay is not so great. How do I choose between the two?
问：我现在有两个工作选择，一个薪水高，另一个我很喜欢但薪水不那么高。我应该选择哪个？
Sadhguru: How much you are worth need not be seen just in terms of how much you are paid. How much you are worth should be assessed in terms of what responsibilities are given to you. The privilege is not the money that you receive, the privilege is that you have been allowed to create something.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）： 你不必以你的收入去衡量自己的价值。你的价值该以你的责任为衡量标准。其中的特权不在于你获得多少报酬，而在于你被允许去创造什么。
Money is a means for our survival, and to that extent it is necessary. However, you must always assess yourself in terms of whatever you are being asked to do. What is the level of responsibility that is being offered to you? What is the opportunity available to you to create something truly worthwhile, both for yourself and for everyone around you?
金钱是生存的一个途径，从那个层面来说是必要的。然而，你必须永远以你被给予的活动来衡量自己。你被赋予了什么层次的责任？你被赋予了何种机会去创造对你以及你周围人真正有价值的东西？
Touching Another Life
触碰另一个生命
Any work that you do in the world is truly worthwhile for you only if you are able to touch people's lives deeply. For example, if you were to make a film, would you want to make a film no one would want to watch? Or build a house that no one would want to live in? You would not want to produce something no one wants to use because in some way, you long to touch people's lives.
你在世界做的任何工作，只有能够深深触碰他人生命的，对你来说才是真正值得的。举个例子，如果你要拍电影，你想要拍没人看的电影吗？或者建一座没人想住的房子？你不会想要制造没人想用的东西，因为，某种层面上，你渴望触及他人的生命。
If you look closely, you will see that you want the activity you perform to touch people's lives. Many people try to divide their life into work and family, where work is something that you do just for money, and family is something you do to touch people’s lives. But this aspect need not restrict itself to family alone. It could extend itself into every area of life. Whatever you do should touch people's lives – that is all that really matters.
如果你深入地看，你会看到，你其实希望你所做的工作能够去触碰他人的生命。很多人试图把生活分割为工作和生活——工作是为了赚钱才做的，而家庭则是为了触碰生命。但这个面向不需要限制于家庭而已，而应该延伸到生命的每个面向。不管你做什么，都应该触碰到他人的生命——这是唯一真正重要的。
How deeply you touch people's lives depends on how involved you are in what you do.
你触及他人生命有多深，取决于你多投入到你所做的事情之中。
How deeply you touch people's lives depends on how involved you are in what you do. If you are deeply involved, naturally the way you work will be very different, and you will be paid according to your capabilities. Sometimes you will have to bargain a little or ask for a raise, perhaps your company needs to be reminded about these things. But generally, if people realize the value of what you are to that particular business or company, they will pay accordingly.
你触及他人生命有多深，取决于你多投入到你所做的事情之中。如果你深深投入，自然你工作的方式会非常不同，你也会因你的工作能力而获得相应的报酬。有时候你可能得和老板商讨或要求提薪——或许有些公司需要这方面的提醒。但总体来说，如果人们意识到你对公司的价值，他们会为你提供相应的报酬。
If you grow in what you are doing, some day, when it is necessary, you could shift from one position to the next, and your money could just multiply ten times over. For example, let us say you are heading a corporation and for whatever reason you are not paid much, but you have been given full responsibility to run the whole operation. If you are performing well and the whole world is watching, anyone will be willing to take you tomorrow for any amount. So your value need not always be gauged in terms of money.
如果你在当前职务上越来越得心应手，有一天，当必要的时候，你就可以上升到更高层次的职位，你的收入也可能一下子翻十倍。比如，你现在在领导一个企业，出于某种原因收入并不高，但你被赋予全部的责任去掌管整个公司的运营。如果你做得好，整个世界都在看，那么明天大家都会愿意要你，不惜任何高价。所以你的价值不必总是以报酬来衡量。
Why We Have Companies
为什么我们有企业
We have established corporations so that we can collectively achieve what we cannot do individually. We could have all operated as individual entrepreneurs – that is how we operated historically – everyone was a manufacturer and trader of some commodity. But when we are willing to put the will of thousands of people together in one direction, that is a corporation wanting to achieve something big.
我们建立企业是为了通过集体力量达成个人做不到的事情。我们可以每个人只是以个人企业家运作——历史上我们就是这么运作的——每个人都是某个商品的制造商或交易商。但当我们愿意将几千人的愿力放在同一个方向上，那就是一个想要有所成就的企业。
You must always gauge your worth in terms of the level of responsibility people are willing to give you, and whether what you are creating is truly worthwhile for yourself and for others.
你必须以人们愿意给你的责任，以及你所创造的是否对你和他人真正有价值来衡量你的价值。
Your real worth lies in the level of responsibility and trust that has been placed in you in this corporation. How much you derive from it in terms of money is important, but it is not everything. You must always gauge your worth in terms of the level of responsibility people are willing to give you, and whether what you are creating is truly worthwhile for yourself and for others.
你的真正价值就体现在这个企业交给你的责任和信任有多大。你从中获得的收入也重要，但不代表一切。你必须以人们愿意赋予你的责任，以及你所创造的是否对你和他人真正有价值来衡量你的价值。
Love&Grace,
Sadhguru
爱与恩典
萨古鲁
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isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/wisdom/article/higher-salary-enjoy-job-which-to-choose
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