Climbing Up Desire

Most of the people in the world try very hard to climb up the ladder in an organization. The reasons behind are seeking for more money, more power and higher job security.

Have you ever think of you are trying so hard to defeat others colleagues in the company and shine in the eye of your bosses in order to get the managerial title, but why don't you put the effort as you put into your job to climb up the other kind of ladder, the social ladder.

Typically in organization stair are as below:
Shareholders -> CEOs -> managing directors -> section managers -> workers.

When you first step into the society, basically you'll start as a worker, then slowly climb all the way upto CEO. It is very very difficult to become a shareholder unless you are rich enough to open your own company. How many years do you think you can reach the CEOs stage? The higher you climb, the more difficult and scarce it become.

Compare to the social ladder:
Upper class (the rich) -> upper middle class -> lower middle class -> working class -> lower class(poor)



This graph was created 3 years ago. Where The Thompson & Hickey model describe bachelor degree holder fall under the lower middle class with annual income at $30k. Some people are lucky and some don't like me. Unfortunately, for my salary range, I fall under the working class.

So no matter how hard you try to achieve in an organization, you'll still fall under the Upper middle class only. So, instead of putting your efforts in reaching the top of the organization, you can use it in climbing up the social ladder. You might be using lesser time to reach the upper class compare to the CEO level yet what you gain can be a few hundred or even thousand times more then what you get as a CEO. Isn't that better to you?