¿How about we give a turn to our perspective on employment?

There is a conversation that is worth putting back on the table: Not to defend the company against the employee, nor to ask the employee to thank what corresponds to him by contract, but to remember an idea that is sometimes lost between demands, rights, benefits and results.

Working is also a great opportunity in life

When a person enters a company, he usually thinks about what he will receive: salary, benefits, stability and experience. And it's okay. But he rarely stops to ask himself something equally important:

What can I build for myself while I'm here?

A company can become much more than the place where we receive a check every month. It can be a school, a laboratory and a space where we discovered capabilities that we did not know we had.

It is also the scenario where we learn to negotiate, lead, listen, make mistakes, manage conflicts, make decisions and work with people who think differently. It can even become the place where a person changes the direction of his own life.

A hiring is also a bet

When a company links a person, it is not simply buying eight hours of work: It is taking a risk.

Invest money before you know exactly what the result will be. Dedicate time to training. It delivers information, tools, customers, processes and, often, access to important decisions.

And there is something that does not appear in any balance: trust. When hiring, a company says, in practice: I think this person can contribute something we need.

Of course, there are obligations that the company must comply with. Paying correctly, respecting labor laws, offering adequate conditions and complying with what was agreed are not acts of generosity.

But an employment relationship should not be reduced solely to a list of obligations. When everything becomes "this corresponds to me" and "this they have to give me", we run the risk of not looking in perspective, of not taking a deeper look: What am I doing with this opportunity? Why do I go to the same place every day?

Your work may be financing something much bigger

Perhaps the position you have today will not be the position you will have forever. Maybe tomorrow you will change companies, undertake, lead a team or do something that you still do not know that there is a possibility in your field of vision.

That's why it's worth asking yourself: what are you accumulating while you work?

· Experience and criteria.

· Relationships and reputation.

· Knowledge, skills

· Discipline and ability to solve problems.

· The security of having faced difficult situations and having gotten ahead.

These skills and knowledge also go with you when the employment relationship ends. That's why there are people who spend ten years working and feel that they simply complied, while others can look back and say:

"I didn't just work; I became a completely different person"

The difference was not always in the position, but in the way of living the work experience .

And of course, the company also has the right to make profits

There is another uncomfortable conversation that sometimes arises: the profitability of a company is perceived as something negative in itself, as if making money automatically implies that someone is losing.

Every company needs to be profitable to operate and last over time. It must generate enough resources to cover wages, invest, innovate, hire, grow, resist crises and take new risks. In addition, it must generate an attractive profit for investors, making it more attractive than other possible investments in the market.

Profit is not the problem. Conflict arises when the pursuit of profit eliminates ethics, deteriorates working conditions or turns people into simple instruments.

A company can make money and take care of its people. It can demand results and develop people. It can grow and create opportunities. It can be profitable and responsible.

In fact, a country's economy requires more companies capable of doing both at the same time.

Company and employee are not enemies

Maybe it's time to stop looking at the labor relationship as a permanent battle between two sides: company against employee, employee against company.

What if we look at it as a relationship where both contribute something different?

· The company provides structure, resources, opportunities, knowledge, market and the possibility of participating in something that individually would be much more difficult to build.

· The employee brings talent, experience, creativity, energy and ability to transform those resources into results.

Both the company and the employee risk critical resources: the first commits capital and opportunity cost; the second, time and professional development. Therefore, the employment relationship must be managed with greater strategy, objectivity and equity.

The question that can change your work experience

Next time you get to work, it may be worth changing the question.

Instead of just thinking: "What does this company have to give me?", ask yourself:

"What can I learn, contribute and build here that will stay with me forever?"

To mean to be an employee is to understand that your professional career does not belong completely to the company: it also belongs to you.

· Each project can teach you something.

· Each responsibility can prepare you for the next stage.

· Every person you meet can expand your world.

· Each challenge can reveal a ability that you had not yet used.

Each work stage can leave you something that no contract specifies.

Perhaps that is a more complete way of looking at work: not only as the place where you earn money, but as one of the spaces where you gain experience, build character, develop capabilities and shape the life you are still creating.

Because in the end, the company will follow its path and you too.

The real questions are:

When the time comes to close that stage, what will you have earned in addition to your salary?

What will you contribute, how will you be remembered in the company?

With love, Isabel Ruiz Life Meaning Counselor Life Coach Movimiento de la Expansion 🦋🦋🦋 September 09 de 2026