Each year, we spend nearly 2000 hours at work. That’s enough time to watch all ten seasons of Friends, 24 times or drive from Montreal to Vancouver, 43 times. In other words, a lot of precious time is dedicated to serving your employer. Our question is simple: Are you investing your time, or spending it?
Parental wisdom teaches the next generation to get an education in order to get a job that pays well. This mantra has been leading the best and brightest to join the biggest, most-talked about companies with the deepest pockets on their road to global domination. If we want a better world, this has to stop.
The world is craving change, it’s demanding disruption; but change of this magnitude doesn’t simply come about. It requires a re-distribution of brains and resources, and an attitude adjustment that prioritizes positive impact over income.
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
These were the words that Steve Jobs used to recruit John Scully, then Pepsi’s CEO, to join Apple. Sure, selling social status in the form of overpriced laptops and phones with mediocre tech specs isn’t the most noble of causes, but there was a time when Apple’s purpose was to make information accessible to everyone. Despite Apple’s current guiding light, Steve Jobs nailed it – there’s more to life than selling sugar water to make a buck.
You can help big corporations get bigger as they dominate more and more market share, or you can be a part of the change the world needs. To be clear, some big corporations are doing great things for the world, but there are a lot more purely in pursuit of profit.
Yes, many of these cash cows give back to their communities (thanks Jeff Bezos for your $100M contribution to American foodbacks, glad you could spare half a day of earnings), but that doesn’t change the fundamental purpose of their business.
Yes, all companies need to worry about balancing the books, but some do so while also worrying about us; our health, our knowledge, our future, our planet, our neighbours. If you had the choice, why not use your time to do good work?
Career sites and job boards, as we know them, treat all jobs equally, except for those from employers who are willing to pay for premium placement. Take LinkedIn for example, the very platform on which you likely found this content. If you want to post a job on LinkedIn, it will cost you per view, per day. If you’re a small company investing your money in results, there’s a good chance you aren’t spending $500 on a LinkedIn job posting. As a result, you, the job seeker, never sees the listing. You can’t apply for a job you don’t know exists, so the companies most in need of your expertise and hustle, never find it.
GreaterGood Jobs was born to shake up the traditional approach to job boards. We don’t believe in sifting through job postings by title or seniority. We think it should be done by impact. There’s no guarantee you’ll work for the company that finds a cure for cancer…but, you could join a company like Toronto’s BenchSci, the team that’s improving the speed and quality of life-saving research with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence.
There are companies working on things that make a difference. GreaterGood Jobs is here to help you find them. If you know a Toronto-based company that deserves a voice on our platform, tell us about them. Subscribe to our mailing list, and tell your friends. Together, we’re going to make a difference.