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If your profession is something you LOVE

Hi ,


I think you are talking about a utopian life , not a real one.


Assuming that you will have a professional career lasting 40 years or so ( or even more perhaps ) , it cannot be that you will love what you do , or sometimes what you have to do , every day of your life. There will be days when you will feel otherwise ; it is your own inner strength which will see you through difficult times , but I doubt there is a single person who has never had problems / difficulties in life.


As you grow in your career , your profession is bound to change its aspects , and what you loved when you were 25 years old , might not be so lovely when you are 55 !


Those who love routine are bound to come across unforeseen events ; those who love excitement are bound to have boring days now and then ; it's practically impossible to love what you do day after day. What is possible is to love what you have gone through , when you are 60 or 70 , when you can look back fondly at those memories !


Narayan
 
Hi,

I once heard of someone getting a job offered by the Australian tourism group to blog about beach life. (Unfortunately for him, it was a brief contract position!)


However, even that person had to do other stuff that he did not enjoy.


If your profession does not involve having to deal with people you don't like, or having to do anything that you do not absolutely enjoy, then I would agree with the statement that it would not feel like work. However, that is not realistic!


I agree with Narayan. (I wonder if he is a Professor in real life!)


Best thing is to look for the "smoothed out" curve, not worry about the little things that do not matter in the "big picture", and learn from the bumps that helped you grow as a person.


-Sajan.
 
I love doing thigs on excel, my present job allows me to do that.

But I am not sure wheather I love my job profession.
 
"I havent worked a single day since I quit my job to focus full time on chandoo.org "


Chandoo you must be having a laugh
 
Well, although I stand by response, I agree with Narayan's statements. In fact, even running Chandoo.org is not all that exciting. About 90% of time I am eager to do the work and it feels like not work. But 10% of time, its poop.


Read: http://startupdesi.com/follow-your-passion-but/ to know my experience
 
There is a phrase in Urdu: "
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Naukari to apnay baap ki dukan per bhe ache nhn hoti
".


The Phrase states that people are even not satisfied with their jobs (role at workplace) even if they are running business owned by their father or their family business. A subordinate position has always some points that every employee doesn't like.


I think if we start doing what we really like (and we can afford doing that too) that is the stage of "Self Actualization", where our needs are fulfilled, so we don't need to listen to boss and just do whatever we like to.


The tragedy is that either we can't afford it or our boss is unwilling to acknowledge our felling. :)
 
The biggest issue today is the way businesses are handled. Most of the businesses run on the assembly line concept, which helps companies work in cost-wise efficient manner much like older times courier:


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In the old times, when modern transport facilities were not available, the important mails were sent by 6 miles sentry system. At every 6 mile (preferably a village), a sentry was posted. When a mail was to be sent to a place 600 miles away, the first sentry would run up to the second sentry and so forth. After delivery, each sentry to would run back to his original place. This way the mail ran continuously. If we make a man run 600 miles, will he be able to do it in stipulated time?


So people see their jobs as like sentry who runs 6 miles from one point to another as it seems mindless at the best so they lose their interest in their work. Instead, they should get to understand the process behind their roles and history of it which will make them more attached to the concept and understanding.


As you build interest in the your work area and its impact, you discover ways of doing it more efficiently and then at one point it becomes intuitive and you start enjoying it. It is at this point, 'work you love' and 'your love for work' boundaries start merging. I think there are very few lucky souls who get close to this aim. It again depends on man's courage and belief. Very few of us dare to chase dreams wholeheartedly. But those who do and excel, we admire them.


Loving your work doesn't mean you won't face difficulties and get weary assignments. It is just that you will enjoy doing them rather dissenting them. For instance, a newb in Excel might say he doesn't find Excel intuitive but ask an Excel Pro and he'll differ on many counts.


Doing work doesn't mean repeating a task year after year. That will bore you to death. It is "evolution" in the way do task which adds "value" it.
 
I am agree in totality with srivallbha as its not about a repetitive work or work without hiccups. its all about if we love what we do, we will move ahead else we will get frustrated.


Problem is that we just perform with in our own small part of work without understanding its interfaces.
 
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