So many people over the years have said that “Every day should feel like a Saturday”, or “Your work should not feel like a job”. I had a manager tell me that you should be excited to go to work, from the moment your feet hit the floor each morning. When you are in love with your career, you should rarely be counting down the minutes until the end of the day, week, or until holidays start. I can tell you from experience that being comfortable in a role that “pays the bills” does not equal happiness. The next thing they know, five, ten or 20+ years have passed, and then wake up one day saying, Some stay in a career that they just don’t like, becoming a “work robot” completing the same repetitive tasks at nauseum, for what seems like an eternity. Too many people settle for the status quo, and don’t take action. Others lack confidence, and don’t feel that they are good enough to have a shot at “career satisfaction”. A job search gets put on the back burner. People typically want to make the switch, but “life gets in the way”. On the odd occasion that they try to change jobs, they try a little bit, then just stop trying all together. The more unhappy they get, the deeper they sink. As people become increasingly unhappy with their jobs over the months, years or even decades, it is like they are sinking further and further into quicksand. To me, that was an incredibly powerful statement. VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk changed his entire career path because he was only 99% happy with what he was doing at the time. One study in the sales profession showed that more than 50% of people should not even be sales at all! Are you one of those people getting out of bed dreading the next 8 to 12 hours every day? Most studies report that 7 or 8 out of 10 people do not like their jobs! Some must have been dealing with other issues too (many were of course frustrated by the continual traffic jams). Is it realistic to believe that all of them looked that way because they were unhappy going to work? Of course not. On occasion, some were smiling, while others where actually singing! It blew my mind how many people looked unhappy though. It gave me many opportunities to look at other people’s faces, as their days were off to very “slow” starts too. The four years that I had an office to report in to, I would get stuck in traffic daily. I have been lucky enough to work out of a home office for 11 of the last 15 years.
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