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End the Misery of Boring, Unmeaningful Work: Time to Create Your Remarkable?
Soul Destroying WorkWorking a career you hate is the pits. Working a career you hate, knowing you are capable of more, and doing nothing about it is just ludicrous. If you’re thinking ‘but it’s too hard‘ or ‘it’ll take a while‘, then you can’t afford not to read this. If you’re thinking ‘I have so many ideas, it’s which one to pick‘, then accept the fact your multi-passionate and let’s work to ensure that parts of them are all being used. Have you reached the point of no return?Is this what career loathing feels like?
Monday arrives every week on time and passes ever so slowly. Tuesday disappears down a dark abyss and on to… Wednesday you nip out at your lunch break thinking ‘what the f**k am I still doing there!’ You pick up on Thursday after it’s the day before… Friday, it’s not that bad is it?! You’re the free you on a Saturday and then before you know it’s Sunday again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. No, sorry, that is no way to live a life. What should you be getting paid for?Do you know? Or do you know it’s not what you currently do? Want to you really want to do? Do you want to work for someone else, for yourself? Is it time to for a complete shift, a new direction? Do you have passions that you think may make a profit? Before you dive in, can we clear this up first: most people assume that getting paid for something they love is something they will never achieve, they’re caught in the trap. The trap (once in) is hard to break free from. Not impossible. Just hard. Because a complete mindshift is required. Some of you are prepared for that to happen, some of you will read this and then do nothing. Imagine back to the time when you first entered the work place, did you have any idea what you really wanted to achieve? Did you think for minute you would be desperately unhappy and stuck? Did you ever think that you would become another cog in the wheel, that you would become another one of the po-faced commuters? The Big Mistake That Others MakePlease don’t make the common mistake of ‘applying’ for a new role because the old one makes you unhappy, without doing the work on you. You’ll probably find that very quickly the new role is the same as the one you left. In my professional experience, many people change their role, or the place where they work thinking they have made a career change, a few months in, they realise they are still miserable. What happened? Same shit, different wallpaper. The decision to make a career change is usually not something that happens overnight. You know that, it’s not love the role one day, and hate it the next. It brews, bubbles and simmers under the surface, reached when you decide enough is enough and life has to be different. What if…You woke up, sprang out of bed and actually looked forward to the tasks ahead of you that day. Sprang? Is that a bit of an exageration? Okay, you didn’t need to bang the alarm 30 times, or tell your phone to keep snoozing. What if…You were to able to say to friends and family: ‘I love my job, no really, I do!’ And you really did mean it. What if…What remained of your 100,000 hours spent working in a lifetime actually did make a difference? How many hours?! I know, it’s scary huh? 100,000 hours, on average, give or take a few. Possible? Or just a pie in the sky dream! I’m going to stick my neck on the line and say yep, totally and utterly 100% possible’, within reason i.e. you plan on being a Superhero, but who am I to judge, for all I know you may have superpowers. However let’s assume, and be realistically positive, that all careers have a teeny percentage of tasks (jobs) that need carried out that aren’t, well, welcomed. What would would be your ideal? Would you be happy with 90% love, 10% not keen but you do it because the 90% inspired the hell out of you? That would be okay, huh? 80/20 maybe? What Is Career Success to You?
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Is Sunday is ruined by the ‘Long Dark Dinner Time of the Job Haters Soul’.