Fantastic advice. I can’t remember who said it but the quote “Your grass would be just as green if you watered it” springs to mind.
When I asked her “What’s the best part of your job?” she looked at me wistfully and said “Nothing, really.”
She was smart, young, and creative, but somehow her spark had gone out. She told me she didn’t want it to be that way but, given the environment she was in – the people around her and the way things were – she didn’t know how to feel better about work.
I tried to show her she had more control than she thought.
A Job, a Career, or a Calling?
It turns out that fulfillment and meaning at work aren’t correlated to our specific jobs as much as they’re correlated to how we approach our jobs and the conditions in which we do them. The job of a surgeon isn’t innately more or less fulfilling than the job of a factory worker. What matters more is their very subjective view of…
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Houldsworth's Random Ramblings 