It is a very antiquated idea that your job should be work. That it shouldn’t be fun or something you enjoy doing. Sure, you might enjoy aspects of it (when you get to eat lunch or go home) but the job it self isn’t meant to be something engaging and enjoyable.
It’s called “work” for a reason, right?
Let’s just say you enter the work force around age 23 (assuming you have an undergraduate degree, it could be later if you get an advanced degree, but for the sake of a number, I’ll just use 23). And you retire at 65. Again, it could be sooner or later depending on a lot of factors. That is 42 years (between 23 and 65).
If you re reading this right now and you aren’t 42 yet, it will have been your whole life so far. If you are 42 or over, you can also calculate how much of your life (so far) would have been spent doing this job.
And I understand that you can change jobs. You might not work at the same company or business for all 42 years. But let’s assume you stay in the same field. Or general area. Maybe in another city or state. Maybe a higher paying position. But it’s the same general area of work.
Forty two years. Are you okay with that?
Are you okay looking back on your life and confronting the fact that you spent 42 years of it (give or take) doing something you didn’t enjoy doing? Waking up to go to a job you didn’t even like? Worrying about work related issues when it isn’t something you’re even passionate about?
Forty two years.
You should be doing what you love. You should be doing what excites you. What you are passionate about. If you are doing anything less than that…you’re wasting your life. Or, at least approximately 42 years of it. It’s time to love the life you’re living. Every day. You deserve that.
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