It takes up a Large Chunk of Our Lives...
Our Jobs.
It is something We Cannot Really Escape From.
It often takes up a Significant Amount of Our Days...
Most People Work Forty or More Hours Per Week...
But Absolutely Despise their Jobs.
Over 80% of the Workforce Goes to Work...
Struggling with Burnout...
Despising Every Second that they Feel Forced to be there.
Which Leads Most People to the Inevitable...
The Hope...
For a Dream Job.
People Talk About it All the Time...
What they Wished they Could Be Doing...
How the Next Change will be where they Find that Dream Job...
And with this...
You Often Hear People Discuss what a Dream Job Entails.
But What I Often Hear...
Are Myths...
That Turn Out to be Lies...
Lies which when Believed...
Prevent People from Having a Good Professional Life.
But What are these Lies?
And How do they Create Challenges in Our Professional Life?
The First Lie is This...
Choose a Job You Love, and You'll Never Work a Day in Your Life.
What is Wrong with this Saying?
It Creates Two Unrealistic Expectations...
And when Reality Strikes, it Starts a Vicious Cycle of Discontent with Work.
What are the Expectations?
The First is that You Will Find a Job that You Love...
Always.
The Second is that Within this Theoretical Job, You Will Never Feel the "Struggle" of Work.
Now, the Myth Does Not "Say" This Exactly...
But the Wording Implies It, and this Becomes the Problem.
This is the Reality...
Even in a Job You Absolutely Love and Adore...
There will be Days when You Hate It...
And there Will Be Days where You Will Struggle...
With Everything Feeling like Incredibly Difficult...
Work.
These are Simply "Parts" of Work.
But the Challenge is that because We have the "Expectation" that a Dream Career will "Look" and "Feel" like this...
When Reality Hits...
We Will Begin to "Believe" that the Work We are Doing is Not the "Dream" that We have Heard About.
This Creates a Subconscious Disappointment in the Work We are Doing...
And it Starts a Cycle of Chasing Job After Job...
Attempting to Find the Job We "Always" Love and "Never" Feels like Work...
Only to Be Disappointed by "Every" Single Job and Career Path We Go Down.
As this Occurs...
It Can...
And Often Does...
Cause People to Miss Opportunities that Could have Led to a Good Professional Life...
And Even a Dream Career...
But Instead, they are Stuck in a Vicious Cycle of Expecting Something that Does Not Exist...
And Perpetually Forced to Face Reality and Running from that Reality.
You Can Never Make Progress...
If You Always Sprint Back to the Starting Line.
What is the Second Lie that You Hear?
That there is a Dream Job.
What is the Lie within This?
That it is a "Singular" Job...
Which Creates the Expectation that You Dream Career will Exist within "One" Specific Thing...
One Thing that You'll Do...
And Love Every Single Day...
And that Will Never Ever Feel Like Work.
The Truth is that Most "Dream Jobs" are Not Really Singular Things...
It is Extremely Rare for a Person to Do "One" Thing...
As Humans, We have an Innate Desire To Grow...
To Become Better...
To Expand.
Because of this...
We End Up Subconsciously Not Wanting a "Singular" Job...
And this can Sabotage Us in a Few Ways.
When We are in Jobs that We Struggle In...
We can End Up Experiencing the Negative Aspects of those Jobs "Worse"...
Because Our Subconscious is Actively Attempting to Help Us Go Elsewhere to Grow...
But as Long as We're "In" that Job...
The Negative Aspects will Continue to Impact Us Far Worse than they Should.
Then...
There is also the Challenge Where if We Find a Great Job...
The Subconscious could Become Worried that We will Become "Stuck" in that Job Forever...
Which can Cause Our Subconscious to "Find" Things Wrong with the Job to Discourage Us from Remaining Stagnant...
When the Reality is that it Could be a Great Job.
But even if We look Beyond the Subconscious...
If We Believe that a Dream Job Exists...
We Miss Out on the Reality of a Dream Career.
Careers are Built Upon Different Jobs.
Some Jobs are Related...
Others May Not Be...
Some of those Jobs May be Great...
Others May Be Awful.
But it is the Combination of These Different Jobs...
The Build and Grow to Create Careers.
If You are Always Focused on a "Dream Job"...
You Usually Sabotage the Jobs that "Drive" Careers Forward.
On Top of This...
You May Find a "Dream Job"...
But Perhaps it is Still Only a Stepping Stone...
To Another, Even Greater "Dream Job"...
That is Only a Part of a Larger Dream Career.
If You are Overly Focused on the Individual Jobs...
You Miss How the Jobs can Allow You to Expand into Careers.
When We Dwell on Only the Problems of Different Jobs...
We Struggle to See what We have Gained from them...
And How We can Utilize what We Gain within a Greater Career.
When We Fall for the Lies that People Say about Dream Jobs...
We Miss the Bigger Picture.
We Sabotage Ourselves.
We Create Vicious Cycles.
We Cause More Struggle and Strife in Our Lives than is Necessary.
We Harbor Unrealistic Expectations...
And When the Reality of Life Hits...
It Feels Worse.
Do Not Fall for the Lies.
All Jobs can Become a Part of a Greater Career.
Bad Jobs can be Motivation...
Can Provide Lessons...
That Allow You to Grow Further in Your Career...
Towards Better Jobs.
And Better Jobs...
Do Not Need to be the End.
Even what May be Considered a "Dream Job"...
May Just be Your Stepping Stone to a Greater Career.
Do Not Allow Yourself to be Forced into a Shape...
Allow Yourself to be Cultivated into Something Greater.
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