I guess it's fair to assume that one day, every one of us has to find his/ her main financial resource. It might come from a heritage, or the rent you monthly receives from the houses you have, or like many others a job. It's also fair to assume that if you have a job, you'll mostly be occupied by it from Monday to Friday, 9 AM till 5 PM. It's also fair to assume that if you want to pursue a career and to succeed in it, your daily schedule would be much more between 8 AM till 8 PM, if not later, and probably some time in the weekends would be going to your job as well. Now, let's make a generic average 5 days (a week) * 10 h (a day) * 30 days (in a month) * 12 months (a year) = 18000h out of 60480h = some 30% of your year is invested in your career. You actually don't even have to go that far in the calculation to realize the portion your job absorbs of your daily 24h: if you have 24h - 7h (of sleep) - 10h (of work) - 2h (of eating) = 5h of free time per day. As most of us procrastinate, it leaves us about 3 to 4 hours a day to experience some personal freedom. If you have a family, probably your 4 hours of spare time will be invested in them.
What I'm trying to say is that you do spend about 40% of your day on your job. I guess this is already a quite good argument to love what you do. You got to find something that motivates you to wake up in the morning and be happy it's a brand new day. That job also needs to pull you through the day, as your working environment changes, you got to find an essence in your job, why you love it so much, in order to maintain your passion for your job always at a minimum level.
Most people will be happy about their job whenever they gain satisfaction from it, not only from its results, but also from the process to achieve the results, as this will slurp the largest chunk of your work time: working towards something.
My question towards myself is: "Which job will make you feel satisfied in what you do?". If the answer is easy to find, I probably wouldn't have started this post or let along this blog. It's because I don't know, that's why I needed to gain some structure in my own thinking in order to retrieve what I've forgotten or still need to learn. The issues causing this uncertainty are the following factors:
1) Information assymetry: there are countless different types of jobs, ranging from your local bakker to the Financial Times recognized CEO. However, most of us do not possess over the perfect information symmetry in order to know which types of jobs are available on the labor market.
2) Even if we know, we can only know whether we like the job or not by doing it. However, as most of us are considered to be worthless on the age of 45, it's not like we have sufficient time in order to try out all the types of jobs that we might like.
3) Most people don't know themselves sufficiently or they are too risk averse to trust their own interest which pushes us to follow the mainstream of the peer group. In my case, it's consulting. If you fear, you wouldn't act upon your gutts meaning your interest. If you don't know yourself, you would lack the capacity to filter out some jobs you might definitely not like. As you can derive, knowing yourself and to trust yourself is quite a core asset to have in your life.
4) The comfort of being numb. "Why going through all these hussle if my current situation is okay?"
I guess these four are the main factors that cause passivity in searching for the right job. At least making the assumption that the individual has the freedom of choice.
My quest now is to find a solution towards these four factors in order to have an overview on the different types of jobs I like and what they have in common. This way I wouldn't only find out about the jobs I like but also what motivates me to like them. You could perceive this self knowledge as the bonus of my quest.
My task for the upcoming days (or months) would thus consist of finding ways to overcome these four existing issues which are preventing me from finding what I love to do.
I got to find my career as:
1) I don't want to end up spending 40% of my daily time on something that makes me unhappy
2) The necessity of having a financial income.
What I'm trying to say is that you do spend about 40% of your day on your job. I guess this is already a quite good argument to love what you do. You got to find something that motivates you to wake up in the morning and be happy it's a brand new day. That job also needs to pull you through the day, as your working environment changes, you got to find an essence in your job, why you love it so much, in order to maintain your passion for your job always at a minimum level.
Most people will be happy about their job whenever they gain satisfaction from it, not only from its results, but also from the process to achieve the results, as this will slurp the largest chunk of your work time: working towards something.
My question towards myself is: "Which job will make you feel satisfied in what you do?". If the answer is easy to find, I probably wouldn't have started this post or let along this blog. It's because I don't know, that's why I needed to gain some structure in my own thinking in order to retrieve what I've forgotten or still need to learn. The issues causing this uncertainty are the following factors:
1) Information assymetry: there are countless different types of jobs, ranging from your local bakker to the Financial Times recognized CEO. However, most of us do not possess over the perfect information symmetry in order to know which types of jobs are available on the labor market.
2) Even if we know, we can only know whether we like the job or not by doing it. However, as most of us are considered to be worthless on the age of 45, it's not like we have sufficient time in order to try out all the types of jobs that we might like.
3) Most people don't know themselves sufficiently or they are too risk averse to trust their own interest which pushes us to follow the mainstream of the peer group. In my case, it's consulting. If you fear, you wouldn't act upon your gutts meaning your interest. If you don't know yourself, you would lack the capacity to filter out some jobs you might definitely not like. As you can derive, knowing yourself and to trust yourself is quite a core asset to have in your life.
4) The comfort of being numb. "Why going through all these hussle if my current situation is okay?"
I guess these four are the main factors that cause passivity in searching for the right job. At least making the assumption that the individual has the freedom of choice.
My quest now is to find a solution towards these four factors in order to have an overview on the different types of jobs I like and what they have in common. This way I wouldn't only find out about the jobs I like but also what motivates me to like them. You could perceive this self knowledge as the bonus of my quest.
My task for the upcoming days (or months) would thus consist of finding ways to overcome these four existing issues which are preventing me from finding what I love to do.
I got to find my career as:
1) I don't want to end up spending 40% of my daily time on something that makes me unhappy
2) The necessity of having a financial income.
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