I love my job, but….

Showing thumbs upI love what I do. I am a tech guy and I enjoy helping people so it works out that I get to do what I like to earn a living. While I like my job I can tell you there are a lot of things I hate about my job! The paperwork is numbing, having to deal with the politics of working in a large company can be on some days painful. The thing is I have never had a job that I liked 100%. That is a reality, there are things about every job we don’t like, but we do them. It isn’t like I can just not do them, they have to get done. If I like my position and want to keep it, they are the price for getting to do what I like. That is something I had to learn over time, it wasn’t something I knew would happen as a kid. As I dreamed of what I would do as an adult I didn’t think I would have to do reviews or deal with employee problems. Even as a kid if you dreamed of being a football star you didn’t think about the hours, months and years you would spend practicing. No, you dreamed of throwing the winning touchdown in the last second of the game. The part we have to learn is the price that we pay for the minute of success. Hard work goes into success and even into enjoyment. To get there we have to put in time doing the things we don’t like. More to the point, we have to learn to do the things we don’t like well if we want to really have success.

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