In my last post I wrote of how more and more people are speaking up that they’re in jobs that they hate, and have been in them for many, many years.  I received a response on Facebook to this posting that is a common question that I hear a lot, and my response is basically this blog posting.  Yes, in order to make ends meet, you may need to take some work you don’t like for a time, but what I’m talking about is spending 15, 20, 30 years in that job that you hate.  Then it’s not about doing something because you have to.

I’m still a bit of a scientist, so let’s look at the math, not in dollars, but in emotions of both sides.  If you stay in a job you hate for years, how much of a toll does it take on you?  How much does it suck out of your soul, year after year?  How much less of yourself do you take home every night because every day, as these people said, you almost feel like jumping out of the window?  Not only does feeling like this suck energy out of you and tire you, it leaves you few resources to fully be with your friends and family when you get home.  You don’t have energy for the hobbies and things you love to do, and they drop by the side as you go on.

After years like this, how engaged are you with life?  Not much.  When I started doing this work 20 years ago, I would hear people talk about being excited about retirement – they just have to hang on for a couple of years and to do the things that they would do.  Now it’s common for me to hear people (especially in bureaucratic organizations) talk about how they’re hanging on for only 10 or 15 more YEARS til they retire. And they’re not talking about what they’re excited to do, they’re just talking about surviving until then.  And the statistics show that, if you’re not engaged in life, in hobbies, in things you’re passionate about – if you don’t have a life – your life expectancy isn’t very long at all.

Look at the flip side of the equation.  If you are working, even partly, in something that gives you passion, what are you bringing home with you?  How much does it feed you, how much does it energize you to do what you love?  When you are passionate and on-purpose, it feeds you and energizes you.  How much more joy and passion do you bring into the rest of your life, even work that is not on-purpose?  Even if there is a bit more of a struggle financially,

All this stuff about the Law of Attraction is not woo-woo stuff.  As a nuclear physicist, I can tell you that what the new science says and the new spirituality say are one and the same.  What we focus on is what we create.  If you read books like Science and Akashic Field by Ervin Laszlo, you’ll find summaries of research that show that these effects govern our entire life, not just the quantum world.

What we focus on is what we create.  If we focus on struggle, and having to settle, that’s the only world we see and what we keep living.  If we focus on our passion and living purposefully, then that’s what we build for ourselves.

I’ve spent 20 years helping people get clear on their core sense of purpose/passion, and then crafting a life plan from there.  Every person that has acted on that has had amazing results moving forward.  Things they could never have imagined happen, and usually the five-year plan people build is realized within 18 months.

So, yes, this applies to middle class, lower income, upper class, everyone.  Yes, you may have to take a job for a time to make ends meet.  But  if you are still settling 10, 20, 30 years later, that’s because you chose to, not because it’s the only choice, and in tomorrow’s blog I’ll talk about how you can start to change things with only half an hour a day.

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