Let`s talk about career!
Posted on July 14, 2022 by Tom Stenshavn, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.
That`s a word we usually don`t think that much about…. Let`s talk more about your career.
Even when we are attending school when we were young, it wasn`t so much thought of what kind of “career” we would have. It was more focused on the actual job and how much money we would make, than focusing on a “career”.
But does having a career actually means?
It can mean different things for different individuals, but for me it`s a straightforward thing. Career is your life. Career is where you want to be in life and life includes a huge percentage of your work.
People spend in average 40 hours every week at their job, making money, making relations, meaning something, contributing to something, creating something. So, the career has therefore got a lot of meaning when it comes to your work.
But career is also the rest of your life. It`s the balance between your work and your free time, it`s how you create your free time also. Your free time depends on how much you must work, right?
Usually, if you are climbing the ladder at your company, you are also getting more responsibility and usually get paid more. But do you also need to work more? If you do, you are not climbing your career, you are upgrading responsibilities and income, but downgrading your personal time and your personal career.
Many of you have family and kids, and most of you are working your asses off for them. You want your family and kids to have a great life. But if you work all the time and don`t get to spend time with them, what`s the point?
Finding the balance between your job-career and your work-career is the key. You need to have the perfect balance between work and life to provide the freedom and happiness you and your family wants and needs.
Then you have a career!
