Showing posts with label passion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label passion. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Passion in the Job Search

In this job hunt we always seem to hear that we need to find the job for which we have a passion. For example, if your passion is to bake cupcakes and feed your friends, maybe you should look into opening a bakery.

What if it's really the opposite? What if my passion regarding the "right" job doesn't fit this model?

My passion is to love the job I have. I should like going to work almost as much as I like going away from work. Within that I can do all sorts of things! I could be entirely happy baking cupcakes as long as it supports my family and the people are nice. I could thoroughly enjoy being a project manager and putting in new infrastructure because I like to see that something that I am responsible for is completed successfully. I could love being a farmer or cowboy (cowgirl?) because it always smells so good outside and I think horses are magnificant.

So do I really have to define a passion and then find a job to meet that, or can I be passionate that I find a job that I really like doing, whatever the definition of that is?

I think I can.