Do you think your current job matches your values?

Melisandre121

Does your job reflect your values and what you're passionate about?

Mine does but at times it's tiring work so I may need to leave and find a similar area of work. I find working in an area that doesn't align with your passion and what is meaningful to you is crushing.

What do you think AH?

eamonnq

I find mine crushing.

My passion is drinking so I suppose I'm set for a life of being crushed.

timmy880

Not at all...... My job is outrageously boring but not really much I can do now. I've 6 years experience at it so the only jobs I can move to are similar. Just have to accept it.

Melisandre121

eamonnq wrote: »

I find mine crushing.

Ah no, I'm sorry to hear that. Do you have something you'd like to do instead?

Arghus

Not at all, but I'm the only one who can rectify that.

Melisandre121

Arghus wrote: »

Not at all, but I'm the only one who can rectify that.

How long have you worked in the job?

The Backwards Man

Yep. Do what you do do well.

sbsquarepants

I'm passionate about keeping a roof over my kids heads and food in their bellies - so yea, that's a perfect fit!:D

strawdog

I kept looking for a job that I was passionate about but couldn't find one. Certainly not one that paid enough for a basic standard of living. So instead I went for one that I don't hate that has reasonable hours and doesn't sap all my energy. I pursue my passions outside the job. Not ideal, but the best I could do as a holding pattern until a calling jumps out at me. If it ever does.

o1s1n

timmy880 wrote: »

Not at all...... My job is outrageously boring but not really much I can do now. I've 6 years experience at it so the only jobs I can move to are similar. Just have to accept it.

Never say never. I was almost 8 years working my way up in the business world through a multinational and decided two years ago that I was wasting my life. Even though the pay was excellent.

Changed career and now do something I love in music.

Took a bit of a pay cut to move but has been more than worth it in the long run.

Cupcake_Crisis

I'm working in the field I studied to be in so I guess so!

Stravos Murphy

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I'm working in the field I studied to be in so I guess so!

Silage field?

DARK-KNIGHT

I deliver pizza... I also have no values.

Back in college in it carlow doing a computer science degree so not all bad.

Stravos Murphy

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

I deliver pizza... I also have no values.

At least you're making some dough.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Yes, I do my job very well, I enjoy going to work and the rewards are, well, rewarding

DARK-KNIGHT

Stravos Murphy wrote: »

At least you're making some dough.

Delivering pizza :pac:

KERSPLAT!

Love my job but at the same time I'm always looking to learn, gain more experience and ultimately move up in the industry. Lucky enough the company I work for has those opportunities and if I put the work in, I should progress.

DARK-KNIGHT

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Love my job but at the same time I'm always looking to learn, gain more experience and ultimately move up in the industry. Lucky enough the company I work for has those opportunities and if input the work in, I should progress.

McDonalds?

pilly

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Does your job reflect your values and what you're passionate about?

Mine does but at times it's tiring work so I may need to leave and find a similar area of work. I find working in an area that doesn't align with your passion and what is meaningful to you is crushing.

What do you think AH?

Are you seriously considering giving up a job that does reflect your values simply because it's tiring though?

mrcheez

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Delivering pizza :pac:

Vojera

I work in a field totally unrelated to what I studied in college (and subsequently worked in for six years).

After my previous contract ran out I spent a few months on the dole and took this job as a stop-gap to pay the bills. Turns out I'm really good at it and I really enjoy it too. I was lucky enough to get in with a good company that treats its employees well and where everyone is sound and happy in their work. Compared to where I worked before this is really a revelation.

So I can't say that I work on something I'm passionate about or that fulfils my ideals, but I work in a job that is full of good people doing their best and that expects you to leave your work at work and enjoy your time at home without worries. That's a good value to live by, I think.

Sleepy

Where did this notion of one's job having to be one's "passion" come from? American notions of (a total lack of) a work-life balance?

I can go to work in the morning without a sense of dread and I'm paid enough to cover the bills. For most of mankind, for most of history, that's a pretty good position to be in.

Do I love it? Hell no, only common courtesy would have me making so much as a phone call had I won the 88 million on that Euromillions draw.

I'm not sure I believe that most people even have a passion in life, nevermind one that can be realistically turned into a career and a huge number of those I see trying to do so are deluding themselves whilst draining their parents, or their partners, bank accounts.

Melisandre121

pilly wrote: »

Are you seriously considering giving up a job that does reflect your values simply because it's tiring though?

Of course not, there's a lot more to it than that.

DARK-KNIGHT

Sleepy wrote: »

Where did this notion of one's job having to be one's "passion" come from? American notions of (a total lack of) a work-life balance?

I can go to work in the morning without a sense of dread and I'm paid enough to cover the bills. For most of mankind, for most of history, that's a pretty good position to be in.

Do I love it? Hell no, only common courtesy would have me making so much as a phone call had I won the 88 million on that Euromillions draw.

I'm not sure I believe that most people even have a passion in life, nevermind one that can be realistically turned into a career and a huge number of those I see trying to do so are deluding themselves whilst draining their parents, or their partners, bank accounts.

Hugs Sleepy passionately

take it all :pac:

Parchment

Not at all.

q85dw7osi4lebg

I thought it did when I started but now it absolutely does not.

Vojera

Sleepy wrote: »

I'm not sure I believe that most people even have a passion in life, nevermind one that can be realistically turned into a career and a huge number of those I see trying to do so are deluding themselves whilst draining their parents, or their partners, bank accounts.

The way I see it, most people are passionate about things that aren't marketable. And of those who are passionate about things that they can turn into a career, only a small percentage of those will ever successfully do so.

As you say, if you can go to work everyday without dreading it and have enough to cover the bills then that's pretty ideal.

pilly

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Of course not, there's a lot more to it than that.

No fair enough, just asking because you mention that it's tiring.

I would dearly love to work for a charity that aligns with my values but haven't been able to secure that type of job so in the meantime I work to live as they say. It pays the bills and I'm not in anyway abused so can't complain too much.

I would think long and hard about leaving a job that I did have a passion for though. That's simply the point I was making.

Melisandre121

Sleepy wrote: »

Where did this notion of one's job having to be one's "passion" come from? American notions of (a total lack of) a work-life balance?

I can go to work in the morning without a sense of dread and I'm paid enough to cover the bills. For most of mankind, for most of history, that's a pretty good position to be in.

Do I love it? Hell no, only common courtesy would have me making so much as a phone call had I won the 88 million on that Euromillions draw.

I'm not sure I believe that most people even have a passion in life, nevermind one that can be realistically turned into a career and a huge number of those I see trying to do so are deluding themselves whilst draining their parents, or their partners, bank accounts.

When I say "passion" it doesn't have to be a huge aspirational thing, just something that has meaning for you personally.

Let's say you have really good interpersonal skills, but you get a job doing data entry or something the complete opposite of working with people. That job would inevitably cause unhappiness and a sense of disharmony. That's what I mean.

Walter H Price

Nope not even close , literally nothing to be passionate about in either the company i work for or in the job i do, but it pays fantastic

I volunteer with animals and follow allot of sport for the passion stuff, work is just about a pay check

jimmycrackcorm

If I wanted to have a job that matched my passion then I'd become a hooker.

fg1406

Hell no. Studied engineering, working in finance in a LA now studying for LLM at night. Hate the job. Public sector is soul destroying but bills need to be paid.

wendydoll

After 10 years in my career field, I just handed in my notice.

Soul destroying job, terrible money and no chance to progress.

COH

Took a bit of leap of faith about 4-5 years ago and decided to see if I could turn my favourite hobby into a career. Not easy, but I'm my own boss, for the most part I'm surrounded by great people and despite the relative uncertainty of self employment I feel like the days are mine.

Malari

Vojera wrote: »

I work in a field totally unrelated to what I studied in college (and subsequently worked in for six years).

After my previous contract ran out I spent a few months on the dole and took this job as a stop-gap to pay the bills. Turns out I'm really good at it and I really enjoy it too. I was lucky enough to get in with a good company that treats its employees well and where everyone is sound and happy in their work. Compared to where I worked before this is really a revelation.

So I can't say that I work on something I'm passionate about or that fulfils my ideals, but I work in a job that is full of good people doing their best and that expects you to leave your work at work and enjoy your time at home without worries. That's a good value to live by, I think.

This is similar to my history. I'm still passionate about what I originally worked at but I enjoy what I do well enough, and I'm good at it. I still have plenty of free time for what is now my hobby, I guess. I'd rather it this way than working at what I really love and barely having enough to live on.

Boom_Bap

My job is grand. It's fairly flexible, challenging at times and I get to travel a bit.
But it's not my passion at all. I've crunched the numbers on my passion and it just wont work at all.

Winterlong

My hobby is something I will make money from after I quit 'proper job' and before retirement.
Tis a long ways away though.

Witchie

As a teenager I wanted to write. School guidance guided me in a different direction. 20 years of working in law, education and sport led me to going back to college to study digital marketing, web design and project management.

Now I am bumming around Asia for a year while writing web content for a semi government body.

I think I win. ��

Bambi985

strawdog wrote: »

I kept looking for a job that I was passionate about but couldn't find one. Certainly not one that paid enough for a basic standard of living. So instead I went for one that I don't hate that has reasonable hours and doesn't sap all my energy. I pursue my passions outside the job. Not ideal, but the best I could do as a holding pattern until a calling jumps out at me. If it ever does.

yeah totally agree. I "did what I loved" for about a decade which also came with the lovely little bonuses of having no personal life, no financial stability and no time to take care of my own mental and physical wellbeing.

so now i do what i like, what i'd describe as "grand" but in no way a passion, for a lot more money and a lot less stress. i clock out on friday and don't think about work til sunday night.

fcuk dedicating your entire life to your "passion" unless it's rescuing kids from burning buildings or finding the cure to cancer, chances are you're entirely disposable anyway and not making near the impact you think you are

maudgonner

Gave up a good, steady career ten years ago to switch to an industry that I was very interested in. Have done many different jobs in this industry, loved aspects of most of them although many aspects are the same no matter what industry you're in (paperwork is just paperwork).

Ten years of the poor pay & conditions, uncertainty of work and bullshít of this industry means that I'm sadly thinking of trying to return to my original career, if that's possible.

I know that I'm better at what I've been doing lately, and care more about it. But you get to a point where that's not enough, and if you're not being rewarded for your work then it's time to call it a day.

Sleepy

Sleepy wrote: »

Where did this notion of one's job having to be one's "passion" come from? American notions of (a total lack of) a work-life balance?

I can go to work in the morning without a sense of dread and I'm paid enough to cover the bills. For most of mankind, for most of history, that's a pretty good position to be in.

Do I love it? Hell no, only common courtesy would have me making so much as a phone call had I won the 88 million on that Euromillions draw.

I'm not sure I believe that most people even have a passion in life, nevermind one that can be realistically turned into a career and a huge number of those I see trying to do so are deluding themselves whilst draining their parents, or their partners, bank accounts.

Absolutely. I got a job last year that's fine, guys I work with are good craic, there's no bull****, I don't dread coming in. Pay is poor enough for now but there's progression opportunities. Better than most people get and enough for me.

Melisandre121

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Does your job reflect your values and what you're passionate about?

Mine does but at times it's tiring work so I may need to leave and find a similar area of work. I find working in an area that doesn't align with your passion and what is meaningful to you is crushing.

What do you think AH?

Obviously it is, we'd all love to be the personal bra fitter to the stars!! travelling first class world wide would indeed align itself with my passions, in an ideal world eh!! see Carlsberg ads for details!

that talk of alignment, culture, values and integrity sounds like American business psychobabble bull**** to me... I'll bet you love those who moved my cheese and my iceberg is melting books too dontcha :mad:

Its outside factors that are never take in to account, a so so career or job can be elevated by the fact it is a pleasant 20 min commute from home and the individual has a fulfilling intimate relationship/family/ hobbies and interests.

My work is my passion. It's more than a job to me, it's almost part of who I am. There are some weeks when I haven't two euros to rub together. This is changing thankfully but I'll never be wealthy, financially anyway.

Sugar Free

It certainly reflects what I'm interested in and what challenges me. It affords me a comfortable lifestyle and occasional trips to interesting and/or beautiful parts of the world I might otherwise never get to see (for the sake of balance there are also plenty of boring trips to the same place).

The company culture doesn't reflect my own way of doing things really but you learn to adapt. I also enjoy knowing that the work I do plays a small part in the eventual benefit of many people, even if the motives for the company doing so are in no way altruistic!

Permabear

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So I went to school, to get a good job....finished it and was told to I had to go college to get a good job....finished that and was told I had to go Australia to get a good job....did that and came back I was told I had to get a bad job and do exams to make my bad job a good job. Did that.....

My life has been designed from a young age to getting a good job. Getting a good job doesn't necessarily mean happiness so find out what does make you happy. As Jim Carey said " you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance at doing what you love"

So ive applied for voluntary redundancy, started hosting my own radio show, and have been accepted into a broadcasting course.

Adyx

I've never really considered what "My values" are. I work in a bar/restaurant and I suppose I am somewhat passionate about hospitality. I have a few unrelated 3rd level qualifications but I'm very good at my job and most of the time I enjoy it. I also enjoy food and drinking so... :P

Harry Palmr

Yes as it happens, even on a dark cold winters morning I'm still fairly happy about going to work, as the weather improves that'll just be more so it being outdoors.

Katgurl

Yes I spent five years retraining while working in my old (very well paid) job and now I make significantly less but love my work.

Bizarrely I don't find money a problem; I think i overspent to match my salary before.