February 17, 2009
those crazy, deranged fools…
[More thoughts on “A Love Letter To God”…]
B. Most people hate their jobs.
But I’m not thinking about “Most People” right now. I’m thinking about the small percentage of the population who want to love their work; who want to find meaning in their work… and are willing to work like hell to find out how.
Those crazy, deranged fools…
How do they manage to exist? How dare they exist!
Are you one of them? Just curious…
[Cartoon Title: “Good iPhone”]
Yes I am!! Oh yes yes yes! I am currently working on the plan of:
1. pursue opportunities with every fibre of being
2. continue honing the craft
3. pray
…plus remindng myself repeatedly that this learning to live simply is the side benefit of walking away from better money:)
I love your blog!
A Webmaster of a science museum.
Can you beat that?
Oh yeah…
would I be reading your sh** otherwise?
I like to sum it up as:
HAVE TO versus WANT TO — Purpose yields meaning.
Unfortunately yes :[ but i accept it…
I’m nearly one of them (love my job but still like the money it comes with). But my wife is one of them — she’d work for free, hell she nearly does
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Her gig? Child photographer. Clients ring her in tears, they’ve been so moved by her shots. http://www.sarahgardan.com/blog
Hands to work, heart to God.
Think about it. Consider it Shaker Zen.
I think it’s a lot easier to find that meaning (real or not) if you work for yourself…
» Are you one of them
yup.
WM_CHEERS
–thomas
Oh yeah — I would totally do my job for free. I LOVE making people happy. Seriously. It makes waking up, sometimes at crazy hours, and the physical labor and weariness that sometimes comes with it — worth it all.
I have the best job in the world. Right now… sometimes I can’t pay the rent on time — but I am cool with that. It’s much better then having a “job”.
Have you been reading my blog?
I am not one of them. That’s why I paint
On a good day, I might be. Though sometimes I think I do it because it’s a compulsion rather than something I love.
In a couple of years I should be there.
My investments should enable me to lead a simple life with lots of time for projects that I really really want to do. (said he naively, right before the new Great Depression devoured all his assets)
hell yes I am.…
I help people and businesses tell their story and am writing a book about how to create your own portfolio career. Its about having 2 or more jobs. Either self employed or employed or mixture of both. When you are ready to start changing your situation, you start to meet people who will help you, tell others about you and your “story” becomes clearer. Crofting i think you called it Hugh…:)
I’m working about 30 hours a week on top of my “day job” so that one day I’ll be able to do the work I love.
I’m currently doing the extra hours for free, so I’m kind of one of them.
Gotta pay the bills though.
Damn, guess I’m an outed CDR.
Yep. I’ve always wanted to open a large-scale theatre show, and I’m doing it on salary. Also pursuing my other love of libraries and digital media by going to school in the evenings. Crazy, yes. Perfect strangers have told me so. Would I have it any other way. No way in hell.
I am an aspiring CDF. The only thing left is trying to figure out what I am aspiring. Great post!
I would love to make my living as an author (first novel due out later this year) and that’s been me dream since I first learned to fold sheets of A4 paper together to make a “book”. But I know what the odds of that are.
So I worked hard and got my masters degree so that I could get a job I wanted to do. I can’t imagine any worse hell than spending all day doing something I hate. I don’t have high career aspirations. I don’t dream of climbing the corporate ladder. So long as I have a job the interests me, I will be happy. It may not be my ultimate dream, but my job is often fun, I work with people I like and I’m still uncovering the range of challenges that lie ahead of me to keep me interested.
Unless someone offers me the Booker prize or a multi-million pound book contract, I will be more than happy to keep coming into work every morning and doing my job.
I’m one. Donated my life savings. Work 7 days a week, some 12 hour days, for no pay. Best thing I’ve ever done. Have faith it will ‘pay’ eventually. Get the intangible reward every single day.
I’m afraid I can’t be a CDF. I’ve tried to make money doing what I love and invariably it turns my passion into a chore. And you can’t price your passion objectively because it’s more valuable to you than your potential customer, which makes it even harder to make the ducets. One of the reasons I love to do certain things is because I don’t have to do them to survive. Goal driven people are much better at making a living off of their passion, but I like a separation of church and state. I have been lucky enough to find A) something I am good at doing, B) something that I don ‘t hate to do, and C) something that makes good money. So I work as much as I need to to sustain my lifestyle and fund my many passions. That is the tightrope, to keep from working too much at your “job” so that you still have time for the things you like to do.
Hey,
I agree with the poster above me, for some people its very hard to combine things that you like to do with something you have to do to survive/make money from. Many things are just fun because you don’t have to do them! And if you ask me today if I would continue doing my current job if I win the lottery I would probably say no, but if it would happen I would maybe feel different. Because probably it would be much nicer to do it I wouldn’t have to. makes sense?:-)
Just a thought…
Greta Post, though!
Hey,
I agree with the poster above me, for some people its very hard to combine things that you like to do with something you have to do to survive/make money from. Many things are just fun because you don’t have to do them! And if you ask me today if I would continue doing my current job if I win the lottery I would probably say no, but if it would happen I would maybe feel different. Because probably it would be much nicer to do it I wouldn’t have to. makes sense?:-)
Just a thought…
Greta Post, though!
You forgot one. How many people love their jobs but hate their bosses? That’s me.