{"id":278480,"date":"2025-06-07T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/i-hate-having-to-earn-money-but-i-like-knowing-what-makes-me-valuable\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:37:48","slug":"i-hate-having-to-earn-money-but-i-like-knowing-what-makes-me-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=278480","title":{"rendered":"I hate having to earn money, but I like knowing what makes me valuable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/cdn\/Boston-house-Greenway-blogsize.png\" width=\"483\" height=\"272\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The only way I find out what people value most about me is by having to sell something. Otherwise I\u2019m just guessing. And I pretty much always guess wrong. Like I thought I was so great at writing about sex, but I only made money writing about careers. Now I understand why careers was more valuable: it\u2019s easier for people to talk about their sex life than their finances, and careers are about money.<span id=\"more-21557\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It took a while for me to face that I wasn\u2019t one of the best entrepreneurs, but I was one of the best coaches. I could tell because even though I wouldn\u2019t say publicly that I coach people, people kept contacting me to coach them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I see this happening with parenting.<\/p>\n<p>I never wanted to be known for parenting. I needed to keep supporting my kids financially, and topics in business were way more lucrative than parenting. This was clear when I got fired from my favorite career columnist gig because I wrote too much about being pregnant. 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