Renungan : Bekerja, Jual Diri atau Jual Ilmu ?

Berbicara dengan guru guru kehidupan membuahkan banyak gambaran tentang alur hidup.
Kristal atau inti sari dari kejadian2 yang kita alami, dari keputusan yang kita buat...
Kali ini pengertian saya tentang 'bekerja' bertambah gamblang...

Kesimpulan yang saya dapatkan dari diskusi hari ini adalah seperti berikut,

Dalam bekerja atau dalam kehidupan hanya ada 2 hal yang bisa kita 'jual',
entah kita menjual 'ilmu' atau menjual kemampuan kita, entah itu kemampuan berhitung, kemampuan public relation, kemampuan mengorganisasi, kemampuan fisik, kemampuan menyanyi, memainkan alat musik, dll.
Kita menjadi seorang yang 'spesialis' di bidang kita.

Atau kita bisa menjual 'diri' atau membuat orang mau membayar kita karena kita 'menyenangkan' / 'menuruti kemauan' customer, bos atau siapapun yang akan membayar kita.




Kita bisa berjumpa dengan orang-orang yang tekun, ahli di bidangnya, namun 'tidak bisa memasarkan' diri.
Orang-orang yang demikian berbahagia dengan karya-karyanya, dengan buah pikirannya.
Masalahnya, kebanyakan orang-orang seperti ini tidak kaya dalam materi...

Orang-orang yang menghasilkan karya besar, sulit kaya, karena kepuasannya terletak pada hasil karya itu sendiri.




Sebaliknya, banyak orang yang 'menjual diri', intisari duit bisa ngucur adalah kalau kita menyenangkan customer atau bos kita, dan itulah yang diambil oleh orang orang ini.

Jangan salah sangka dulu, tidak ada penghakiman disini :). Sorry kalau istilahnya rada kurang enak di hati.
Tapi orang-orang yang bisa menjual diri, biasanya akan sukses dalam hal materi.

Konotasi negatif sebenarnya muncul pada orang-orang yang 'hanya' bisa menjual diri.
Pandangan miring karena orang-orang ini tidak mengerti, tidak menikmati, tidak menjiwai hal yang ia jual.



Menjual ilmu 'saja' beresiko barang yang kita jual tidak bisa diterima dengan baik, walaupun berkualitas namun orang tidak punya keterikatan / keharusan membeli / mengikuti yang timbul dalam dirinya secara internal. Dibenci bos, dibenci customer menjadi resikonya.


Menjual diri 'saja' beresiko tidak langgeng, mudah ditiru, mudah tergantikan (udah kayak pacaran atau pernikahan aja nih hahahaha...). Beresiko dicibir ketika orang mengerti 'kualitas kita' yang sebenarnya.
Walaupun orang 'suka', bisa menerima kita, namun kita sulit memiliki 'kebanggaan', self esteem, kepuasan intrinsik dari dalam diri kita sendiri.
Selalu membutuhkan 'pengakuan' atau 'penerimaan' dari orang lain sebagai patokan kebanggaan dan kepuasan.



Kelemahan para penjual ilmu, adalah jika ia mengharapkan pengakuan, penghargaan.
Bos, customer yang walaupun membeli, mengakui, bahkan datang atau membeli kembali, namun mereka tetap tidak suka dan jarang yang akan memberikan pengakuan, pujian dan penghargaan.
Oleh karena itu jika anda adalah seorang penjual ilmu, penjual karya, buang jauh-jauh harapan akan pujian, pengakuan dll. Mungkin itu baru akan didapat anda setelah anda tidak berada di tempat itu, atau setelah anda mati :).




So seperti banyak hal di jaman sekarang, kata 'ATAU' perlu dibuang dari pertanyaan awal tadi :
'Jual Diri' atau 'Jual Ilmu'. Sebisa mungkin kita perlu menggunakan kata 'DAN'.



Bagaimana menghasilkan karya terbaik yang memuaskan diri kita, sesuai dengan keinginan hati kita, namun juga membuat orang lain disenangkan, dipuaskan, dibuat mengerti tanpa dilawan keinginannya.
Mungkin lebih gampangnya 'membuat orang merasa diikutin kemauannya, namun sebenarnya kita sedang memuaskan diri kita sendiri, mencari kesenangan untuk diri kita...
Kadang menuntut kita untuk bisa menghamba sehamba-hambanya namun disaat-saat tertentu bisa memutuskan diri untuk berhenti menjadi pelacur dan menunjukkan kesejatian diri kita tanpa membuat orang lain merasa tertipu, tersinggung atau tidak tercapai keinginannya.

Kelihatannya saya perlu berhenti disini,
karena sisanya adalah jatah 'seni', seni kehidupan, seni untuk menangkap dan menginterpretasikan sesuai dengan situasi kita dan kemampuan kita.
Its the art of living that we all must find our own style :).

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Dive Report : Lestarikan Laut Kita, Pasir Putih - Situbondo, 3-4 Maret 2012

Kali ini A2DC bersama dengan pt Suparma tbk mengadakan fun dive dan bersih-bersih pantai dan laut.
Lumayan pesertanya 16 divers dan dibagi menjadi 3 group.

Report lebih lengkap bisa dibaca di blog A2DC, sedangkan yang saya taruh disini seperti biasa adalah koleksi pribadi dan photo-photo terbaik yang saya dapatkan di trip ini.

Enjoy them all :).





Pasir putih, mungkin terdengar asing di telinga divers, dan mungkin dipandang sebagai lokasi yang 'kurang menarik' karena koralnya banyak yang hancur, karena visibility yang selalu dibawah 10m, karena hewan2nya yang 'itu-itu saja'. Namun Pasir putih sebenarnya bisa sangat menarik di mata seorang underwater photografer.

We have a very very pleasant experience during our trip at Pasir Putih...
check out the photos below....


1st Dive : Karang Mayit

Small Eel...  :)

B/W picture of jelly fish 

B/W picture of jelly fish

surprisingly quite a lot of jelly fish we found throughout Pasir Putih these days...
different kind of jelly fish... just scroll down to find out what kind of jelly fish we found...

Crown of Thorn... (Acanthaster planci) at 5m found during safety stop.
Dare to touch ? :D.

Penuh duri hiii... hehehehe..... Crown of Thorn... (Acanthaster planci)

Hewan ini baru pertama kali saya lihat, punya 10 tangan yang
bergantian 'membawa makanan' ke mulut nya yang terletak ditengah... amazingg....

Other group found these beautifull lionfish during their safety stop...
picture belongs to Pak Satriyo Mahendrawan.

2nd Dive, Batu Lawang

Dancing Lion Fish....

Ketemu Lion fish yang sedang makan di atas koral... Richard yang pertama kali menemukan :).

Pak Ketua A2DC sempat berfoto bersama lion fish ini, silahkan check blog A2DC.

Front view.... :D.

A bottom dwell fish, no ID, I just like the shape of it :).

Nudi...

Phyllidiopsis pipeki nudi branch

Same species but red coloured :).

I did spot this nudi at piramid point.

3rd Dive, Piramid,

just about 100m from the dermaga (bridge) of Pasir Putih, is the Piramid, mostly sand bottom, but quite rich for macro creatures.

Flat fish, about 40cm in diameter, I am glad to found this rare fish here at Pasir Putih.
Look at her two eyes that both located at the same side.
Then I found another one, but much smaller, only 5cm in diameter

Goby with shrimp, a lot of these species at the piramid spot.

Goby with its host shrimp.... :). this is the first time I could photograph this simbiosis mutualism pair...

fantasize with it my friend :).
Property of Satriyo Mahendrawan.

dirty jelly fish... :) found at the piramid.

Nice looking bottom dwelling anemone

File fish... found at the piramid....

property of Satriyo Mahendrawan

4th dive, Nite Dive @ Piramid

Even more interesting... as expected, the sand of Pasir Putih hides a lot of interesting live animals...

Rajungan... tidur di atas pasir....

Small eel, comes out from her dent....

We found 2 or 3 hermit crabs at the sandy bottom west to piramid.

The same hermit crab, but photographed from the side, highlighting the anemone that grows on her :D.

Near the end of the dive, we found a good colony of carpet anemone with its fishes, crabs and shrimps !
check out the photos below :).

Porcelain Crab (Neopetrolisthes maculata)
You should see 2 crabs and 3 shrimps !! :D.

Porcelain Crab (Neopetrolisthes maculata)
Does it have a tongue or what ?

She uses her arms that has some sort of fan

to bring plankton into her mouth...

Porcelain Crab (Neopetrolisthes maculata) with anemone fishes...

The highlight for the night is a jelly fish with long tentacles...
She was just digesting 2 fishes and.....
(I just realize it when editing this picture) there is another small fish, alive, on the outside, following the jelly fish everywhere.
Now... my friend... could you locate the small fish ? :D.

The same jelly fish viewed from different angle, the tentacles were 2 meters long !!

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Dive Report : Menjangan - Bali Barat : 25 - 26 Feb 2012

Back to Menjangan... :)
but now... with quite different trip, and nuance... quite an experience...

Pak Daniel, Pak Jansen and Pak Santoso were in the boat, we stayed at mimpi, picked up and dropped also at Mimpi Resort, Menjangan.
Reports are as follows....


Mimpi Resort menjangan, docs are just as good as it always be... taking breakfast and lunch at the restaurant were always fabulous and relaxing experience...
white sand, blue skies... quiet place... hot spring... just imagine it yourself.... :D.

Mimpi Resort Bay view... picture taken from restaurant.

Restaurant of Mimpi Resort Menjangan.

We headed to Menjangan 'dermaga 3' point, north to Menjangan Island, found a nice sand point for entry, back roll, and drift east following the current. Pak Jansen, Udah gak miring-miring lagi ya pak ? :).

Pak Daniel... sudah mantap di air... tapi masih jadi penyelam 'katanya' hahahaha...

just between us deh pak Daniel....

Pak Jansen, maskernya 3 ways lho !! :). One of a kind !...

Lobster.... cukup banyak sepanjang penyelaman...

Leaf Scorpion Fish, Taenianotus Triacanthus. Between Dermaga 3 and Sand point... The same Leaf Scorpion Fish could be found @ Cristal Bay.

Exercising for Macro Wide Angle photo...

Chromodoris magnifica nudi branch

Chromodoris magnifica nudi branch

The 1st decent picture of me at Cave Menjangan Pos 2 :) after 2 years occasionally visit this cave :).
Thanks to Pak Santoso....

Dive 3, Bat Cave
Simple dive at Bat Cave and drift west... quite a current, do not have to kick continuously but also easy to stop to take photo.... an easy and nice drift...

exercising for Macro Wide Ange :).

I just like it :). Could not help to share to you all...

Scorpion Fish on Soft Corral
She mimic the color of soft corral ! :). not a Albino one.

I Just like the pattern.... :), like a stitches leather work :).

This is the 1st time I could produce a decent shoot with this fish !
I tapped my shoulder for this picture :), using zoom and about 50 cm distance is quite an effort
to have a good focus and not to disturb this speedy fish...

Its a nice surprise that we found a crocodile fish just near the end of the dive...... lay still at 6m or so, we could watch and take as many photograph as possible... here are the result !

The same Crocodile Fish (Cymbachephalus beauforti)....
lay still near dermaga 3 Menjangan.

The eyes !!
Crocodile fish (Cymbacephalus beauforti)
or De Baufort's flathead.

Not 5 not 6 but 7 arms Star Fish !! :D.

Happy Anemone Fishes...
exited to be photographed...

A Hand Bucket....

Black spotted Dogfaced Pufferfish
as 'ugly' as it can be :D.
(Arothron nigropunctatus)

Transparent leaves ? :D.

Day 2, Dive 1 we go to Wreck point (Anchor Point).
There are actually two anchors at Wreck point.
And just under the 1st anchor at 5m or so you could find these Periclemenes brevicarpalis... not to easy to photograph because of the location, but quite a number of them...

1st Anchor at 5m deep @ Wreck point :).
Want to See the 2nd one ? it is at 30m and you can find the picture : klik here...

I think those are Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimps
(Periclemenes brevicarpalis)

Batfish / Spadefish Either Platax Batavianus
(Hump Back Batfish) or Platax Pinnatus 
(because of the orange lining at its tail and head..)
The later is more likely...

Ardeadoris egretta... considered to be a 'big' nudi branch
size about 12cm when I found it....

Just when we think its going to be a boring dive... Pak Putu our dive guide banging his tank and give us a 'turtle signal'. We look up at 10m and saw this hawksbill turtle cracking corals with his beak..

A Hawksbill Sea Turtle, eating corral... this creature categorized as endangered species...

She disturbed by my presence... sorry mr turtle... I should have been less aggressive next time....
(Eretmochelys imbricata)

And I found a nice place to photograph Pak Santoso :), an anemone carpet lying at the edge.

A perfect place to take a photo....

Nice photo isn't ? :D. Pak Santoso near carpet anemone...

Day 2, Dive 2, We dove at one 'unnamed' point that contains quite a number of nudi and other macro animals. The corals were heavily damaged due to fisherman fishing. But we could still found some interesting objects... :). This point is east from Labuhan Lalang and Mimpi Resort Bay entry.
The top of the coral is at 5m ideal for safety stop and then dropped of to 30m or so.
The corrals at 15+ were quite good, but 'dusty' perhaps due to the rubble above... but it's nice to have good and healthy corral at a supposedly crowded fishing spot. Yup there is no big fish could be found around... unlike menjangan..

Comensal Transparent Anemone Shrimp
(Periclimenes Sarasvati)

Transparent Tunicate (Sea Squirt),
found by Pak Santoso...

Hawkfish... berduaan ni yee....
Falco Hawkfish / Dwarf Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco). Their dorsal fins are awesome :).

Yellow Spotted Pipefish, commonly seen at Pemuteran, I think she is pregnant...
(Corythoichthys polynotatus)

Black Saddled Toby
(Canthigaster valentini)

Flat Worm

I Just like it....

The flower from the ocean...

Nembrota Kurbayana... found here at Menjangan ??!!
What a surprise ! :).

This time we also went up to Pura (Temple) inside menjangan. And... took some pictures of the temples and also the deer...
It would be just some hundreds meters walk from Menjangan Pos 2.
I used the surface interval to walk up then back again in 30minutes or so...

Deer at Menjangan island, its called menjangan
because this island is the habitat for 'Deer'
(Javaneese : Menjangan)

Me and the Deer :).

This is the first time I took picture of a deer and taken picture with deer at the background.
They are quite friendly btw, I could approach them in just 1.5m distance.

Kuil Kwan Im ? Di tempat persembahayangan Hindu ???
hmm.... I need to ask priest's explanation about this...

Bunganya bagus !! hehehe....
Orangnya... lebih bagus lagi hiehiehiehie...

Flower for you....

View from top of the hill to Pos 2 Menjangan....

I hope you all enjoy it... thanks to Pak Putu Swastika and Ketut from Global Dive Pemuteran...
Good luck to you all guys !! We'll be back for Pajamas Cardinal fish huh ?
We had a deal on that already :).


Other Menjangan Trip :
- 11-12 Feb 2012, with pt. Hess
- 2-3 Jul 2011, with A2DC++ :D.


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