Work That Works
Watching a website that you recently redesigned, help a struggling nonprofit organization profit is fulfilling.
Knowing that a book cover you designed helped sell a book is fulfilling.
Hearing of how your writing changed a reader’s day (or better still, life) is fulfilling.
Knowing that your encouragement salvaged a dreamer’s dream is fulfilling.
Hearing the laughter of an audience is fulfilling to David Kau.
Hearing of someone who was inspired by someone who you inspired is fulfilling.
Watching a client come is fulfilling to a sex worker.
Reading that a song that you sang helped a divorced couple reconcile is fulfilling.
Knowing that your poem made a black woman who was brainwashed by media, dump her weave, and still get to see herself as beautiful with her own hair is fulfilling.
Knowing that the work that one worked on works is fulfilling.
Seeing a student make something of herself because of your mentoring is fulfilling.
Seeing people whom your work changed, change other people is fulfilling.
Regardless of what work you do, watching your work work is fulfilling.
(If your work isn’t working, it isn’t work. You are not even working, you are merely occupied.)
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— October 7, 2010.