Is it possible to dig what you do?
15th September, 2007 - Posted by Robin Ogden -
Okay, there have always been career coaches/counselors around, touting the “find your passion” mantra. “Advance your careere”. I’m not sure it is feasible that everyone will be able to find that passionate career, or that everyone wants ‘advancement’ as it is traditionally defined.
But I would surmise, from my work with hundreds of individuals, that most people want to enjoy life. They want to be themselves, not have to put up facades, and to work in a place that ‘feels good’ at the end of the day. Most importantly, most of my clients have expressed not just having a ‘career’ they love but having a life they love. And of course, career plays a huge part in most people’s lives. Your work provides the means to support the other aspects of your life. And work provides an opportunity to get alot of other human needs met. The need to have meaning, to interact with others, to belong to something, to feel challenged, to grow.
While the old watchword was ‘work-life balance’, the new is ‘work-life integration’. I never truly bought into the balance thing, in that it suggested an ‘on-off’ state when it came to work. Pretty difficult for most professionals in this day and age. I like the integration concept much more. It suggest the ability to be yourself in all parts of your life, of being able to say “I dig what I do” regardless of the time of day.
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Posted on: September 15, 2007
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2 Comments
Sue Olson
September 16th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I am on my way to digging what I do and I think it will be that work/life integration that allows me to say that. I have always been ‘well rounded’ (in more ways than one -hee-hee) so have envied those who knew what they wanted to do/be and went for it with a vengence. I am good at the career that I just got laid off from -but passion does not really enter in. So now I am seeking new ways to make a living and I am diggin’ the journey!
firedupcareers
September 17th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Sue, I’m happy for you! What strikes me is how you speak of the journey. Digging what you do is a process of living. it is a process of continuously aligning what you do with your life. Best of luck to you!
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