Day 107 - The Job Victim

 "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi  

I wrote a piece called 'The Job Myth' a few years back, and it still holds true today, especially now as people start realizing that many jobs can be done from home, that the future of work and success is no longer attached to climbing a corporate ladder, and that many businesses can be created/sustained without all the money on rent for brick-and-mortar locations and employee wages staffing those stores. 
 
This is not meant for those who choose long term careers as genuine interests in study and occupations requiring intense education, but even so, people change their minds about what they want to do all the time. No one is stuck, unless they believe they are.

Here it goes: 
 
It is not your job’s fault that you’re unfulfilled.  Don’t blame your job.

Why don’t you work for or at something you love?  Answer that.

Do you work for or at something you love in your “free time”, when you’re not working at the “job” you have to have in order to pay your bills?  Does time off work feel free?  Or is that time taken up by doing all the things that should have been done while you were working?  Or are you paying other people to do those things with the money you make at the job you don’t like?  Or are you ignoring the things that should be done outside of work because you just want to relax from your job?

If you could make a choice right now that could lead you to an overall feeling of happiness or contentment, what would you choose to do?  Why?

These questions need to be answered fully, so take some time. 

Once you have answered them fully, you can begin to free yourself from working at a job you don’t like. It starts with staying at your job. I know, it doesn’t sound good, but you need to do some things before you quit your job, because it’s not your job’s fault. 

First, Be At Your Work – There’s a reason you’re there. It’s paying your bills, your rent... and it’s forcing you to do or be something that you won’t do or be by yourself - read that last part again. Ask yourself what that is, what is your job forcing you to do or be that you wouldn't do or be on your own - An early riser? Deadlines? Organizing? Time management?   

Second, Be At your Play – Take a good look at how you spend your time when you’re not at your job. For me, I used to spend a lot of time camping, playing music and making my surroundings nice for people to relax and enjoy, and now I own a campground that hosts a music festival. I also love social media, and now I'm into network marketing.

Further, as a society, we need citizens to be fulfilled in their livelihoods – When people feel fulfilled, it follows that they aid and support others toward fulfillment.  Our society is wrapped around people being required to work for money to pay for things and services; so, if you don’t “work”, you don’t get money, you don’t get “things” and “services”.  So, most of us just get some job to fit in society, but that leads to being unfulfilled. Depression and stress are key indications of being unfulfilled.  Criminal Behaviour, Addiction, Suicide, Homicide… all happen when unfulfilled people can’t cope with it.  Why are we continually serving and making toxic and breakable things that we don’t actually need? It is a vicious and unnecessary cycle, and this way of life is not actually working! A society made up of fulfilled individuals is a great society… but this is not where most of us live right now.

It is true that not everyone wants to be an artist, or a nurse, or a fashion designer, or a farmer, or a scientist, or a sport professional… some people actually want to do things you don’t want to do.  Some people actually enjoy cleaning for a wage - I have a job as custodian for my local post office because it gets me out of bed by 5am, doesn’t take too much skill or time, and I make some extra money at it, and then I'm freed up to do the things I want to do, like my other occupations. So, as Zen as it sounds:  When you’re cleaning, Clean… don’t get bogged down with mental and emotional crap about all the other things you’d rather be doing while you’re cleaning. While you're at your job, do that job and do it really well.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs. These kinds of quotes on doing what you love by remarkable people are nice sentiments, and true too… but, really, you have a mortgage, taxes, energy bills, and kids who need things… So... so, you don’t get it yet.

To get it, in the meantime, while you’re breaking free, you will be unhappy and frustrated and scared and hopeless – but, these things are Important to Feel – they are  Master Guides, and need to be respected for showing you what’s going on inside that unfulfilled brain of yours…  most people prefer to ignore or stifle them, but that will not benefit anything. These negative feelings are there for you to look at, ask questions about. Look at them. Answer those questions. And then ask: what do you want to do with your time here? In the meantime, negative feelings will be with you while you transition out of fear and attachment to things that hold you where you are.   

Realistically, you’ve already made choices that you are now paying for… Suck it up and take a chance on turning them around.  What do you have to lose?  Your life?  You’re going to lose that anyway. You can move from Job Victim to Working Class Hero, to the CEO of your True Destiny, simply by employing yourself fully to whatever it is you're doing right now.

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