Comments on: Loving Your Job Is Overrated

By: Papertape

Papertape — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:11:56 +0000

In a way you contradicted yourself saying find a job you love is overrated and stated at the end “So get a job you enjoy.”

I understand there is a line of enjoyment and love, but the fact is many people today are simply unhappy with “work.”

You see a trend of overworked Americans resulting in burnout and dissatisfaction to the work they once enjoy.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:38:40 +0000

Yeats said,
“Labour is dancing and blossoming where the body is not bruised to pleasure soul..”

But there’s an old Jewish tale that says,
“Rabbi, should I devote my life to a job that I love?” says a guy…and the Rabbi replies, “Your love should be reserved for God, family, THEN a job”…

People interaction is required to be happy…do you know any hermits that laugh a lot?

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By: Archimedes

Archimedes — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:52:05 +0000

As a 20 year old college student in the middle of contemplating a BFA vs. Business Degree (the extreme of this whole debate) it is very reassuring to see this. I’ve thought this for awhile, but the momentum of culture has been so hard to push against. Also having spent some time in the ‘real world’ – not the MTV version – makes the sensible decision much easier.

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By: P2P-Loans.com

P2P-Loans.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:19:50 +0000

This article is so on point. I have many friends who are always hopping jobs in a near bi-polar fashion (euphoria at a new, “dream” job, quickly followed by discontent). I am one of the lucky few who has a job that I genuinely enjoy (corporate finance – hard to believe I enjoy this, but I’m a total number wonk, what can I say). But, as a gen-xer, I’ve seen all too much how our generation seeks out the next best thing (I hypothesize that this is a big reason for the dot-com and real estate bubbles (gen-xer’s were looking for easy money and a filfilling life). Unfortunately, these behaviors have set us back one too many times….

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By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:01:33 +0000

I think that you can find something you like doing, i accept that there is an awful lot of pressure to find something you ‘love’ doing and that you can do anything you want, but also there are practicalities like money, and how you will pay the bills if you are a third world aid worker for example, but then i also know that i find my job very rewarding and is very meaningful which are the values i had when i was at university so it can be done. but if you find aspects of your job that you enjoy then thats cool as well. i was once in a job where the people were bitchy and the work VERY boring, and i couldn’t stay there any longer. but it also pays to be realistic, because alot of the time the world is not your oyster and we do jobs that we can get

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:20:35 +0000

This is really a great message for those of us who grew up being told we could do anything we put our minds to.

You don’t have to love everything about your job to be happy. And the notion that you do or that you even can causes a great deal of disappointment with the “real world.”

Happy to echo so many of the other comments–this one really resonated with me.