There are various ways to look at this topic. Based on the situation a perspective is created. Challenge with such a one liner is that when everyone tries to implement it considering this is the thumb rule. At the same time I can’t think of a subject which is not biased and good enough to engage people. Work!, too lame.
Say you have tons of money, any amount of money can be tons, it only depends on what you define for yourself. That aside, now you are doing work for the sake of acquiring knowledge, changing the system or simply for the fun of it. And this work isn’t costing money to anyone else or you are paying money to them for doing work then whatever you do is 100% pure work, meaning things which you want to do from bottom of your heart.
Say you saw a person from para 2 and want to work for him because he will pay for you. You engage that person and sell yourself by sharing what you can do to help in the cause and how comfortable he/she will be while working with you. In this scenario your work will be 33.3%. Next 33.4% will be to ensure that you stay in demand and last 33.3% would be presentation of your work.
Say you are picked to work for the person in para 2. Let me clarify, sitting in line and giving interviews is the category of getting picked and not the category of para 3, those are said to be getting business. In this case 25% work will be managing your work, meaning priority alignment and setting correct expectations. Next 15% will be presentation and last 60% will be doing actual work.
Now you need to choose where you want to be. If you enjoy working and don’t have money then 4th para choice is yours where if you do good work then in your non-working hours you can be a person from para 2, of course with the right mindset. Sad part is the 25% category, it sucks. If you are interested in a para 2 person profile only and don’t have money then think 10 times or 100 times about it, as you need to work as para 3 person to accumulate money faster. Catch is you will come into para 2 only when you stop thinking about money, don’t know how that’s possible as at the first place you reached there only by thinking about money, again tons of money is your definition only. BTW you may want to stay in para 3 profile by saying to yourself that you are getting the best money for your work. If you happen to be from para 2 then consider yourself lucky as you have a real chance to make the difference to humanity. However this category is also not saved from catch. Catch is, it’s very easy to get distracted.