I Hate Your Job

This is a guest post by Lloyds Apple of deathrattlesports.com and leniche.com. While I obviously disagree with the overall conclusion here, his view is prevalent enough to warrant some airtime and hopefully some thoughtful response.
As much as I hear about how people “hate their jobs,” I can’t help but wonder what would happen to […]

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Who would be glad to have the job you hate?
Can you learn to see your job as they would?
Who hates the job you want? What do you want to say to that person?
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This commercial is a few years old. Not surprisingly, it is still relevant today.

Though the implication is that you should hop on monster.com and browse around, it takes much more introspection to avoid landing in another bad job.
What did you want to be?
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There are three responses to hating a job: keep hating it, change the job, or change your attitude. I spend a lot of time focusing on the “change your job” option because I think that it is usually the best, most practical option.
That being said, stirring up discontentment and trying to draw attention to […]

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This is a repost from the beginning of September. Thanks to those of you who are serving our country in the military and to those who have done so in the past.
Do you know anyone that has served our country in the military?
An email I received yesterday from Anita Bruzzese brought my attention to […]

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Part of me is tempted to mentally take superstar do-everything types like Tim Ferriss down a peg to make myself feel better. That part of me is stupid, prideful, and very real, unfortunately.
Anyway, props to Tim Ferriss are due, and frankly, I think the guy is deserving of the attention. From his recent […]

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A Choose Your Own Adventure Story
My wife and I split up and I just celebrated yet another wedding anniversary, so it’s got me thinking about life, about the past.
Remember that miserable job I had back in 2007? Well, not much has changed since then, has it? Things sure have changed since […]

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As some of you may have noticed, my site has been down lately. A lot.
In fact, it’s been down almost the entire day today, most of yesterday, and a huge part of Friday and Saturday as well.
I have been a fan of bluehost.com up to this point, and I’m willing to give […]

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Penelope Trunk has just posted an article entitled, “The Real Deal About Generation Y: They’re Inherently Conservative” to which I’d like to offer a response.
In the article, Penelope expresses her surprise at the results of a set of surveys done by Business Week that reveal that the top 3 “best places to launch a […]

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What’s on your calendar? What’s not?
A friend told me recently, “You can learn a lot about what a man values by looking at his checkbook and his calendar.”
Our calendars tend to be full of work:

Schedule in some value as well including short breaks:

Work on your novel, play with your kids, start a blog, exercise, […]

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