These days you’re lucky if you get paid enough to pay your rent or mortgage, buy food, pay your other bills and still have enough money to buy gas to get you back to work again.
I’ve been fortunate. For almost every job that I have had, I’ve been able to make it fun working at it. I am also fortunate, that for the kind of work that I do, people are willing to pay big bucks for it: at least enough to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the lights on.
These factors put me in the driver’s seat when job hunting. I’ve turned down a couple of very high-paying positions in favor of jobs that paid less but were more fun to work at. I have a “nose” that lets me “sniff out” rotten companies.
It pays to do as much research on the company that is hiring you as you can get. For example, if you are looking for a job as staff in the fast food industry, ask the people who work there what it is like working there. Different companies and different franchise managers have different management styles. You can upscale this technique to do research on even executive positions.
I was the beneficiary of a combination of skill and luck. If you can, sharpen your skills. Increase your luck by sharpening your skills and doing your homework.
I have also been fortunate to have had an experience to rethink my relationship to my job. I was allowing my ego to get in the way of my job performance.
I have since learned to take my job seriously but not personally.
If your ego is tied to your job, it can be stressful. Failures on the job will be seen as personal failures. Threats on the job will be seen as personal threats. If you evaluate your self-worth based on job performance or job title or salary then life becomes too complicated to manage and will likely be out of balance.
Your work life is only part of who you are. There are other parts that also need attention, particularly relationships with other people.
I have been mostly successful in keeping my work self separate from my personal self. I have the ability to get another job. I don’t have the ability to get another life. I have to make do with the life I have.
what I learned in my youth, you can do what you love, do what you are talented in, do what can to get by or do what makes money and retire early. I took the last option.Retirement in your 50s is a lot more fun than working till your late 60’s.
I like parts of my job, like getting to play while I work. I took a mini vacay in October, saving for my next adventure…and my bills are mostly paid…guess I can’t complain too much.
old_geek 4 months ago
Working on such a cool computer should be it’s own reward…
Yakety Sax 4 months ago
https://notalwaysright.Com/what-part-of-obligated-under-federal-law-confuses-you/324325/
Jml58 4 months ago
I Don´t like to go to work in the morning. I know if I don´t do it, I don´t get paid. I like that even less.
FreyjaRN Premium Member 4 months ago
I miss working.
Macushlalondra 4 months ago
These days you’re lucky if you get paid enough to pay your rent or mortgage, buy food, pay your other bills and still have enough money to buy gas to get you back to work again.
PraiseofFolly 4 months ago
Think of it as a test of your character … as the Lord tested Job in the Bible. :/
CorkLock 4 months ago
GED didn’t take you very far Aunty?
rockyridge1977 4 months ago
Do I wish I was home…….Yes!!!!
dflak 4 months ago
I’ve been fortunate. For almost every job that I have had, I’ve been able to make it fun working at it. I am also fortunate, that for the kind of work that I do, people are willing to pay big bucks for it: at least enough to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the lights on.
These factors put me in the driver’s seat when job hunting. I’ve turned down a couple of very high-paying positions in favor of jobs that paid less but were more fun to work at. I have a “nose” that lets me “sniff out” rotten companies.
It pays to do as much research on the company that is hiring you as you can get. For example, if you are looking for a job as staff in the fast food industry, ask the people who work there what it is like working there. Different companies and different franchise managers have different management styles. You can upscale this technique to do research on even executive positions.
I was the beneficiary of a combination of skill and luck. If you can, sharpen your skills. Increase your luck by sharpening your skills and doing your homework.
dflak 4 months ago
I have also been fortunate to have had an experience to rethink my relationship to my job. I was allowing my ego to get in the way of my job performance.
I have since learned to take my job seriously but not personally.
If your ego is tied to your job, it can be stressful. Failures on the job will be seen as personal failures. Threats on the job will be seen as personal threats. If you evaluate your self-worth based on job performance or job title or salary then life becomes too complicated to manage and will likely be out of balance.
Your work life is only part of who you are. There are other parts that also need attention, particularly relationships with other people.
I have been mostly successful in keeping my work self separate from my personal self. I have the ability to get another job. I don’t have the ability to get another life. I have to make do with the life I have.
clynnb1224 Premium Member 4 months ago
last vacation- 2016, 1982…i am due for another one…really long over due…
flying spaghetti monster 4 months ago
what I learned in my youth, you can do what you love, do what you are talented in, do what can to get by or do what makes money and retire early. I took the last option.Retirement in your 50s is a lot more fun than working till your late 60’s.
teachteed23 4 months ago
But it does give you enough to frizz up your hair — right, Aunty?
cuzinron47 4 months ago
It does afford you the opportunity to keep your frig stocked with wine.
QuietStorm27 4 months ago
I like parts of my job, like getting to play while I work. I took a mini vacay in October, saving for my next adventure…and my bills are mostly paid…guess I can’t complain too much.
gopher gofer 4 months ago
my job doesn’t pay as well as it used to (times change), but it affords me the option of doing things i really enjoy, and that’s good enough for me…