Do You Love Your Job?

Do You Love Your Job?

This evening as the last colleague was walking out of the office and wished me good night, he asked me, “What time will you leave?”?

ME: When I finish my work for the day or when the watchman throws me out.?

Colleague: Don’t you feel tired??

ME: No.?

Colleague: How do you manage to have so much energy??

ME: Because I love my work.?

If you do not love your work, you will feel dragged, stressed, and tired. You will underperform. It is a lose-lose situation. You must find another job where you will love the work.??

When I started working, I changed three jobs in four years and realized that most of the organizations are not very different. I need to learn to enjoy my work. This energized me and helped me outperform others and succeed in my career.?

How can one love one's work??

  1. Find a job that gives you work that you love to do. A friend of mine told me that it was possible for only 5% of the people. I believe he was right. One must be lucky to get such an opportunity.?
  2. What is the alternative? Start loving what you get to do. How??
  3. Look at the positive side of the work. Figure out how you can help others or better still impact the society or people around you positively. This will make your work meaningful, and you will start enjoying your work.?
  4. Every morning tell yourself how much you love your work.?
  5. Tell yourself that you are excited to get to work.?
  6. Every night count your blessings and appreciate the impact you have created on the happiness of others.?
  7. As you keep doing these things every day you will start believing in it and start enjoying your work.?

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I was fortunate that I was in the 5% for most of my life after the first few years. I kept getting opportunities to do what I loved to do. I wish everyone is equally lucky.??

However, in my first job after my engineering I was highly frustrated. I met a senior from my college and cribbed to him for half an hour.??

The senior asked me: Do you have an option of leaving the job and going back to your home??

ME: No!?

Senior: When something is given, and you can’t change it, just enjoy it.??

I am old enough to know that one should not advise youngsters. However, my suggestion to youngsters is:?

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“Either get what you love to do, or love what you get to do.”?

?What do you think??

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Amit Bansal

Chief Executive Officer @ K&R Rail Engineering Ltd. | Infrastructure Projects

8 个月

Excellent message to youngsters as well to the seniors. I use to work like a machine. I ignored even my health also. but this is the high time to take a call. Thank you very much

Snehashish Chakkravarty

CXO Relationship Manager AT BHARAT CXO

8 个月

Thank you for sharing this information for useful

Ram Rasik Thakur

Chief Operating Officer ( PSI and JHO Industries ) C- Level Professional | FMCG Manufacturing Consultant | Process & Engineering Automation Consultant | Trainer & Mentor

8 个月

Valid point! ??

Shambhavi Pathak

SCMHRD MBA’26

8 个月

Grateful for all these learnings, I still remember the day when we discussed about my upcoming MBA journey that I was about to start and you shared this with me. I will always keep this in mind. Thank you

Naresh Gopaldas Vatwani

Executive Director at Refyne Finance Private Limited | Deputy General Manager (Retd.) Special Audits and Investigation at State Bank of India

8 个月

Worthy guiding learning message, thx for sharing. There is limit for every thing including love for work. A lot of other roles are also to play for every one which also need time.

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