Love the career you are in or find the career you love
Posted on April 06, 2012 by Meredith DiMola, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
How to get on the path to finding a career you love
This is one of my major truths – Love The Career You Are In or Find The Career You Love – Some will argue that you can’t love your career for a variety of reasons. Some of the ones I hear the most are:
It is called Work for a reason
If you do anything 40+ hours a week, it no longer is something you will love
Work is not play and play is not work.
I don’t agree. Allow me to make it personal. At each stage of my career I have loved what I was doing, that is, until I didn’t love it anymore. Then it was time to do the next thing I believed I would love.
How did I know I loved a job? My list of non-negotables were being met at a rate higher then 50%.
- Sunday night did not feel like SUNDAY NIGH
- I was learning daily
- I was helping others
- I was inspired by the people around me
- I was heard
- I was successful by my definition of success
- I was passionate
- I did my job very well and everyone around me knew that I did my job very well
I was successful by my definition of success
I was passionate
I did my job very well and everyone around me knew that I did my job very well
How did I know it was time to move on? The above non-negotables were no longer present enough for me and I would reach a tipping point.
Bottom line, if I was not upholding the things that I knew at my core needed to be there, I wasn’t of use to anyone, especially myself.
So if you don’t love what you do, consider finding a way to love what you do. Consider making a list of your non-negotables.
Consider the words of Martin Luther King -
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” MLK
