Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, has just passed away. In 2005 he told the Stanford graduating class,
”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.
“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
Wise man. Don’t waste your life doing a job ‘just for the money.’ It’s not worth it if it kills your soul and steals your joy. Confucius is credited with the aphorism “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
I am lucky to love my job. How about you? Do you love what you do? If not, what would you rather be doing?
Shawn L. Bird 
I am very lucky that I am privileged enough to worry about loving my work. And lucky to have lucked into a profession I loved.
Work is called work, because there are some things people just won’t do because they can worry about only working for happiness. Among those are some people who are lucky enough to be able to pay those people to do the unhappy jobs for them. Be very grateful if you are among those who can worry about happiiness, be more than grateful if you love your work, and be lots kinder to those who work to survive. My Staying Strong Tip for the Day.
Happily, different people like different things, so there is a niche for all.
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I can no longer work for physical reason but when I did there was not a single job that I liked let alone loved, there were aspects of each that brought me pleasure such as the people I worked with. The jobs I enjoyed most were the jobs I could not support myself on. Did you know that never in human history has someone’s success been as reliant on their parents wealth and station in society as in the current age. When you add to that there are more slaves world wide than in any other time in human history. The days of the self accomplished person are near over as the gap between rich and poor continues to widen… For a growing percentage of the population there isn’t the option of working in a field we love…
To be honest, most of ‘working in a field we love’ is about personal attitude. There are people who will be unhappy and grumble about whatever they are doing, and there are people who will be happy and encouraging to others in whatever situation they find themselves. Some aptitude for the environment and a good attitude will ensure most of one’s workplaces are pleasant, barring the human trafficking angle, obviously. We definitely need to get the international community dealing with those issues. Have you read the excellent novel by Sofi Oksanen called PURGE? It addresses something of that issue (among other complex things).
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