Workplace Complacency– Not Good Enough!

I don’t know how *real* bloggers do it, but my system for organizing my blog topics is fairly arcane.  I either make myself a note on actual paper.  Or type it into notepad.  But my preferred method is a list of “blog prompts” that I save as an email draft.  Really high-tech I know.

Anyway, after writing my last “woe is me” rant, I went looking for an appropriate picture.  Since I felt like all my posts sounded like broken records, I googled that phrase and found this post on a really interesting blog called I Hate Your Job.  I think I’ve visited it before, but there was just something serendipitous about stumbling upon it.  If I could figure out how to add non-wordpress blogs to my blogroll, it would be #1.  I totally “get” what that guy is saying. Plus, it’s funny.

I Hate Your Job made me think of something that was on my “blog prompts” list, so here goes:

Earlier this spring I went on vacation with some of my family.  One of my aunts was asking me about my job and I told her it was okay, but I didn’t really LOVE it.

She said:  “Well, it’s just work, right.  Does *anyone* LOVE their job?”

At the time I sort of dismissed it, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there *must* be people who love their jobs?   And, yes, “it’s just work,”  but I spend over a third of my life there.  Why shouldn’t I expect to get something other than a paycheck out of it?

And that’s where I Hate Your Job comes in.  He argues that, yes, you *should* want some fulfillment/happiness from your career.  And that having the right “fit” is important.   Most people would say ‘well, duh.’  But it came at the perfect time for me.

I think part of my recent identity crisis (or whatever it is) has to do with complacency.  When did “okay” or “adequate” become good enough for me?  Do I have to settle for a job that I only kinda like because “no one” loves their job?   NO!

More work rants to follow, I’m sure…