For many people, working in the business world is just about the worst thing that they could imagine doing with their lives. Some people know themselves well enough to recognize this before even entering the working world. Other people come to realize that they hate business after working in that world for many years. If you’re here reading this article, there’s a good chance that...
They say that life is what you make of it. And, ultimately, it’s tough to make much of life if you don’t know what you want that life to be. That is why it is so important to set a clear vision for what you want to achieve in your life. Without a vision of what you want your life to be, you run the risk of living on somebody else’s terms, and then looking back one day and...
While working in an office is probably the most common working path in our current knowledge economy, it doesn’t mean that it’s for everyone. Take my five year old, for example. He is the most active child I have every encountered. Absolutely full of energy, extremely physical, and always on the move. Yes, he’s only five, but even if he calms down a bit, movement and physicality...
Spending the normal working day hours of eight hours per day, five days per week working for somebody else doing something that you don’t like feels like it can drain the life out of you. As a result, many people reject the idea of wanting a job and wanting to work at all. Instead, they come to feel that “I don’t want a job I just want a life”. And if you find yourself...
The pandemic caused people to reevaluate many aspects of their lives and what was truly important. And one area that seemed to be impacted more that others was that of work. People started to ask themselves why they were putting so of their energy and time into their jobs. And at the end of the day, many people started to question the importance of a job in the first place. To that end, this...
You’ve been in the working world for a while. Maybe you have worked various jobs in different fields. Or maybe you’ve been climbing the ladder in the same career path for some time. But, after a while, you realize that none of the jobs really bring you to life. You might even start to feel a bit numb in the working world. So, you start to realize that…maybe you have no passion...
The most common work day hours are 9am to 5pm Monday – Friday for eight hours per day and 40 hours per week. Assuming that you sleep for about eight hours per day, that means that half of your waking hours are spent working. For many people, that number of hours and that regimented of a schedule is simply too much. In fact, for some people, working a 9 to 5 can simply feel like a waste of...
The routine. The pressure. The people. The lack of purpose. For many people, working a corporate job is just about the worst thing that they could imagine doing with their life. And for some, they may even feel like working a traditional corporate 9 to 5 is a waste of life entirely. If you’re here reading this article, there’s a good chance that you’re miserable in corporate...
You’ve tried different companies. You’ve tried different jobs. Maybe you’ve even tried different career paths entirely. And, no matter what you try, you simply don’t seem to enjoy it. Any maybe you’re even in what you would consider to be a good job right now. A good company, a good boss, a good team, but still, you’re finding that you just don’t like...
The 9-5 schedule has been the standard for most jobs in the United States since the 1920s. Originally, it was introduced by the Ford Motor Company and became standardized by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as a way to curb the exploitation of factory workers. And ever since that time, the 9-5 schedule is the way that we have organized our work. However, younger generations have increasingly...