From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability.

The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around this.

I don't know what it's like in your social circles right now, but a lot of my friends are in big career moments.

Lots are thinking about making career changes, like getting out of an industry they've been in for a while, while others are thinking about how they can take their career to the next level.

And of course, some are just unhappy with their jobs and want to get out, but don't really know where they want to go next. Today's episode is for anyone wanting to see some kind of movement

in their career. We'll have three questions that you can ask yourself

as you try and navigate whatever career moment you're in. So the first thing to ask yourself

is whether the job you have or want creates value. And when you hear the word value,

the first thing that comes to mind could be monetary value.

But the SGI-Nitrin Buddhist perspective is that there are three kinds of value, beauty, benefit, and good.

This actually comes from the Buddhist philosopher and educator, Sunessa Burma Makaguchi.

Mr. Makaguchi developed this philosophy of value, which says that the

three values of beauty, benefit, and good must all be present to create the utmost value. So in the

context of work, we can think about it like this. Beauty is a job that we really enjoy. Benefit is

personal gain, so a job that makes us enough money.

And good is work that contributes to society in some way. But it might be hard to find a job that

has all three. For example, maybe you have a job with incredible pay and benefits, but you hate doing it. That job has benefit,

but not beauty. Or you could have a job that you enjoy, beauty, and contributes to society, good,

but doesn't pay you enough to live, benefit. In your own life, you or people you know probably have

experienced the struggle to find all three. Especially in today's economy, many folks have to focus

on just the financial aspects. And it can be hard to find a job so the mentality could be,

I'll just take whatever I can get. For folks in those cases, Jose Tota, a Buddhist philosopher, said,

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