I've had multiple jobs since graduating; I'm starting another this month.
I've had two that excited me in terms of the industry, or what I did from one day to the next, or what I was working to achieve.
I do get a measure of satisfaction from completing something, or from the company of competent people I get on well with, but I've come to evaluate actual or prospective employment solely on what a role pays.
For example, I applied to train as a teacher after much badgering from family and friends, just so I'd have a defined career and some clear progression, and the thought of that didn't move me much either. I just looked at the starting salary, holidays, and wondered whether primary or secondary schools would give me a shorter, simpler day.
I may be cynical, I may be lazy, I may just be burned out, I don't know. I just don't, at the moment, have any passions beyond making a decent living.
I've worked in local government, restaurants, retail, IT installation, and the goodness or badness of the environment was for me, pretty secondary to the pay. I can connect to people, learn about the field, build good relationships and even stand out to bosses and customers, I just want not
to be poor more than anything else.
I'm trying to start a side business, but still...,
What makes you enthusiastic for your work?
Financial gains, bragging rights, freedom, or fringe benefits like time off?
Goals achieved, people helped, valuable skills passed on?
What do you think your "passion" is?
Does passion matter in doing what you do?
Do you think you can find a passion when you lack one?
I've had two that excited me in terms of the industry, or what I did from one day to the next, or what I was working to achieve.
I do get a measure of satisfaction from completing something, or from the company of competent people I get on well with, but I've come to evaluate actual or prospective employment solely on what a role pays.
For example, I applied to train as a teacher after much badgering from family and friends, just so I'd have a defined career and some clear progression, and the thought of that didn't move me much either. I just looked at the starting salary, holidays, and wondered whether primary or secondary schools would give me a shorter, simpler day.
I may be cynical, I may be lazy, I may just be burned out, I don't know. I just don't, at the moment, have any passions beyond making a decent living.
I've worked in local government, restaurants, retail, IT installation, and the goodness or badness of the environment was for me, pretty secondary to the pay. I can connect to people, learn about the field, build good relationships and even stand out to bosses and customers, I just want not
to be poor more than anything else.
I'm trying to start a side business, but still...,
What makes you enthusiastic for your work?
Financial gains, bragging rights, freedom, or fringe benefits like time off?
Goals achieved, people helped, valuable skills passed on?
What do you think your "passion" is?
Does passion matter in doing what you do?
Do you think you can find a passion when you lack one?
"The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is the first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them,"
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary