1. What does your employer do?

2. You can tell a lot about a company and whether the employees are fully engaged in their jobs.

3. Being full engaged means you are motivated to give the extra effort that advances the goals of your employer

4. You have a moral obligation to become fully engaged in your work. Being full engaged in your work affects your health, marriage, and kids.

5. Levels of engagement vary around the world.

6. Pay is connected to output for most of human existence

7. There has been a shift to variable pay for work rendered. Employers benefit from variable pay as it better enables them to manage cost, reduce risks from unforeseen events, and reward employees. Workers benefit by increasing their compensation each year far above the cost-of-living increases and better reward their individual efforts.

8. We compensation balances the goals of the organization with the goals of the individual.

9. The word job has been around for 400 years.

10. Rapid wealth generation came from own factories instead of land. The factory created many new job types.

11. White collar workers outstripped blue collar workers and farmers by the 1950s. In 1950 there were 287 job categories and by 2000 there were 543 job types.

12. It is very important to be a continual learner and develop new skill sets.

13. More people are assemble multiple jobs to reduce risk, maximize interest, and allowed for flexible schedules.

14. People often choose the same career their parents followed

15. True security comes from actively managing your career

16. Part of the job of a manager is too assist team members in their career path

17. 40 percent of US workers are working more than 50 hours a week. The set time and location of working is disappearing.

18. Work and life are not separate entities

19. Work stress can affect marriage relationships. A freeze during marital conversations is a sign that couples are on a trajectory toward marital distress and dissolution.