The moment you finally take a break, the questions tend to come up:
– Is this job for me at all?
– Do I really want to go back to it?
– Am I really working for 11 months to take 3 weeks off?
Sometimes, at the end of the holiday, there’s plenty of energy to go back.
Sometimes, after going back, there’s a new tiredness on top within a week.
Sometimes, these questions make me really want to do the job.
Sometimes, these questions make me not want to, but I have to.
Sometimes, I don’t let these questions arise because they’re too uncomfortable.
It is very important to look at the part of yourself when you ask these questions, whether it is a MUST or I WANT situation. And then in turn, whether this DOING is really my will, or whether I am being loyal to someone else through it (parents, employer, social norms, etc.), but I am slowly being erased in the process.
But the most important thing is:
What is it that work helps me to express?
What is my vocation and is work a means to my vocation?
If this is not the case, then perhaps it really is worth considering changes. Or perhaps to really develop your vocation, aside from paid work, so that at some point it is big enough to become something that pays, and then work is no longer a job at all, but a means of expressing your potential/passion/calling.
This is my own experience – on the sidelines of my salaried job, I gradually started to do consulting and training for managers who were not just on my team. Supporting the deep systemic development of leaders and entrepreneurs to bring about socially beautiful change is my passion. Many other aspects of paid work were not, not at all. At one point, there were so many clients that there was no more paid work to be done. And now I don’t call my work a job, but a true expression of a calling. A vocation became a profession.
I don’t normally do voice advertising, but…
… if you want to really look at these questions this summer, email me.
I have a few openings for 1-1 mentoring in July and August, because I’m “working” this summer, if you want to call it that.
Sometimes, all it takes is one conversation to shift your life.
