Do you think your current job matches your values?

Melisandre121 · 25-01-2017 03:30PM #1

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 · 25-01-2017 03:31PM

I find mine crushing.

25-01-2017 03:31PM

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

timmy880 · 25-01-2017 03:32PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:33PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:33PM

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

Melisandre121 · 25-01-2017 03:34PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:34PM

Yep. Do what you do do well.

sbsquarepants · 25-01-2017 03:35PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:42PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:50PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:51PM

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

Stravos Murphy · 25-01-2017 03:53PM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

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

Silage field?

DARK-KNIGHT · 25-01-2017 03:55PM

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 · 25-01-2017 03:57PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

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

At least you're making some dough.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 25-01-2017 03:58PM

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

DARK-KNIGHT · 25-01-2017 03:59PM

Stravos Murphy wrote: »

At least you're making some dough.

Delivering pizza :pac:

KERSPLAT! · 25-01-2017 04:00PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:02PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:03PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:05PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Delivering pizza :pac:

Vojera · 25-01-2017 04:07PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:08PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:08PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:11PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:11PM

Not at all.

q85dw7osi4lebg · 25-01-2017 04:11PM

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

Vojera · 25-01-2017 04:12PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:13PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:15PM

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 · 25-01-2017 04:18PM

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

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