Dig What You Do

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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Okay, I didn’t for a long time.  I poured all my energy into my work.  Had a lot of fun, but never really had a plan, just worked really hard and made plenty of sacrifices that affected other parts of my life.  Like the time I missed the funeral of a dear friend’s mom because “I’ve got to be at a meeting in
Denver”.  Or, “you go out with the kids to dinner, I’m too tired”, having just come in from an overseas trip.  Or how about the alliance I had with my boss, and following his lead in talking smack about the upper management.  It was fun, edgy, but bit me in the butt in the end.  I was successful, made tons of money, had a great bunch of friends at work.  But I never played the game correctly.  Now, many will say that ‘playing the game’ is a bunch of hoo-hah politics.  And “I don’t like politics”.  But I now ‘GET IT”.   Playing the game is about living your life.  It’s about making your life work in the way you want it to work.  Every action you take in your job/career has implications not only for the advancement of that career but in the advancement/quality of your entire life.  So get with it!  Realize that most of us will spend 90,000 at work in our lifetime.  Why not make those 90,000 hours work for you?  Our work at firedUP careers is all about digging what you do.  Individually, we’ve been in business for along time.  We’ve just launched a our NEW BUSINESS  to help people ‘get it’.  The time is right to say to yourself…”life’s too short.  I want to dig what I do.”

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