"Finding" is a sneaky word, isn't it? It suggests that the goal is out there somewhere, just waiting to be found. Unfortunately, work isn't something that suddenly appears to us in an epiphanic moment. Recently, I had a conversation with a young friend about his job that he described pretty poorly.
by Robert Dobay
"Do you feel like you have a good job?" I asked.
"Well, honestly, good is the last word I’d use.” he replied.
"What kind of job would you consider good?"
"I think a good job is one where you can make decent money and work little."
"Hmmm... Do you know anyone who has such a job?"
"You mean someone I know personally?"
"Not necessarily. Let me rephrase: what kind of job allows you to make a lot of money with little effort?"
“Influencers or celebs?”
"Yeah, some of them get paid well and it seems they don't have to work too hard. Sounds like a dream job..."
“Look, they must be satisfied with their jobs."
"Well, it seems to me that many of them struggle with eating disorders, are constantly in scandals with their private relationships, drink, and do drugs. I don't know about you, but I've never looked at them as truly happy people."
"Okay, maybe it's not a dream job after all. What do you think makes a job good?"
"I don't think there's a dream job...”
If we ask people who love what they do, they do not tell us how they have spotted “the dream job” in the listings. They’ll tell us instead that they had clicked to an ad of an average job, and they transformed it to a good one.
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“Anyway” I said to my young friend “if you don’t like what you do you have two choices: either you do something else or you like something else. :)
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