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How To Find A Job You Like

April 11, 2013

© Alan Cleaver

Did your job turn you into a clockwatcher? Do you count the minutes to freedom, only to return to the same boring job the very next morning?

I was there, too. I used to hate my job, which led me to hate my entire life.  In fact, hating our work is a problem of epidemic proportions.

80% of us dislike our jobs. Four out of every five of us wake up every weekday morning only to go to a job that bores us, annoys us, and brings us no satisfaction.

What can you do about it? How can you find a job that you actually want to go to? How do you find a job that you like?

Sometimes, the solution is easier to see when we look at the problem from the outside.

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By on April 11, 2013 in career, happiness

The Twists and Turns Of Finding A Career You Love

March 25, 2013

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“Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid.
Come to the edge, He said. They came.
He pushed them… and they flew.”
~Guillaume Apollinaire

From the moment that I met my best friend at school, Karen, she told me that she was going to be a doctor. She seemed to arrive at this decision with little need for reflection or soul-searching; she simply knew that she wanted to be a doctor, and that was that. Not even those treacherous 18-hour shifts at medical school, her dislike of seeing blood, or going into massive debt to fund her study made her question her career choice.

I, however, never had that clarity. My career path has been as undulating, meandering and seemingly haphazard as the most challenging of rally circuits. I have never even had that “eureka” moment that people who have found their life’s calling often talk about.

Instead, my journey to finding work I love came through a series of false starts, well-intentioned (but ill-thought-through) decisions, uncomfortable realizations, and a lot of courage.

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By on March 25, 2013 in career

Two Ways That Money Steals Our Dreams (and How To Take Them Back)

March 18, 2013

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80% of us dislike our jobs. Eighty percent!! That’s 4 out of 5 people, dragging themselves out of bed every weekday morning, counting down the hours to come home, only to repeat the same senseless exercise all over again the next morning.

What’s worse, we feel powerless to do anything about it. And so, we are stuck.

How did this happen? How did the great majority of the population end up in this sorry state?

You guessed right. It all comes down to money.

The problem isn’t with money itself, but our perceptions of it. Like helpless fish in a net, we are caught between a rock and a hard place.

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By on March 18, 2013 in career