When you take a job or start a business with making money as your only goal, you’re more likely to:

• Cut corners

• Charge more than you should

• Exaggerate claims

• Engage in trickery and emotional manipulation

• Promote things that aren’t good for people

Deep down you’ll know it’s wrong, but you’ll justify it to yourself. You’ll tell yourself you need the money, that you’re doing more good than harm, that it’s only temporary until you find something better, that everyone else is doing it, or that if you don’t do it, someone else will.

But the justifications won’t make up for the other thing you’ll be feeling: dissatisfaction.

We all need money, and it’s usually not easy to get. But earning it in a way that isn’t truly of service to the social good is dissatisfying to those with a conscience.

Satisfaction in the workplace belongs to those who know their job is to provide a service to others. Especially when it’s something they’re uniquely gifted to do, and which provides as many people as possible with what they need to improve their lives.