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...
If you’ve been in the working world for a while and find that you have seemed to hate every job that you’ve gotten, you’re probably wondering what’s going on. You might be asking yourself if you’re the problem. If you haven’t found the right job yet. Or if work really just sucks that much. To that end, I’m going to share my perspective about what might be...
Career setbacks can feel devastating. It may even feel like you’ll never be able to bounce back and that your career is ruined. And if you find yourself in a situation where you had a major career setback, you may be wondering where to go from here. To that end, we sourced responses from a variety of career experts about what to do when your career is ruined. We also asked for stories about...
“It this…it?” That line is the apt opening to a recent article from Kyla Scanlon in Fast Company talking about how she was feeling months after starting her first job out of college at an asset management firm. For Kyla, and many others, there is an increasing feeling of emptiness that comes with the modern work culture. You’re expected to dedicate at least 40 hours per...
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...