As a mid-career professional, a person who has invested a "sizable chunk" of life cultivating skills through the acquisition of advance-level education and personal sacrifice for time in favor of the office; how much traction (career-yardage) has one really gained playing the Corporate game? How much value can one affix to one's career? What does success really mean? If the ultimate life goal, centers around the accumulation of wealth or the acquisition of power, then at some point, one would have to assess the value of the effort. If we consider the value proposition it would make no sense to have a "period gain!"
To ask these questions, one would have to be matured into a certain stage of life where career aspirations like yardage, fade away, being driven out by the most important aspect of one's career "the personal impact that is made on others!" When we reflect on former colleagues or peers? Do we say "man he/she made alot of money while they were here?" Or do the memories of the more favorite just warm the cockles of our hearts or do the unsavory elicit feelings of disdain? I would say that our impact on one another carries significant weight in creating lasting workplace memories than do our authority or compensation. Details surrounding individual compensation are not typically shared and so this aspect of one's impact would be speculative! So, much of our thoughts about one another are derived from the quality of our interface. Therefore the most important aspect of one's professional career is in how one has lead their career.
So, how much of the positive imagery of oneself is sacrificed to matriculate up the Corporate ladder? Over the years can one accurately measure the career yardage gained? Can one assess the relative value individual sacrifice and collateral impact to one's family? In essence, how much career yardage can we quanitify? So, how important is one's career yardage?
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