In my career guide Working Assets I make one specific positive distinction:
It’s possible to have a job you love. Even if you’re not doing what you love on the job.
To wit:
You might not want to become a professional chef in a kitchen with all the demands. Instead you can bake cakes for coworkers to bring to your job to share in the staff kitchen.
I think everyone should buy and read a copy of Working Assets by the way. It’s on Amazon. The competitive information tells readers everything you need to know.
In my view it’s foolish not to ask for professional help when creating your resume. Ninety-five percent of the first draft resumes other people create to give to me for a review are terrible.
With 2 simple changes the resume can go from awful to AWEsome. Trust me. Staff at a public library are often trained to help patrons create resumes and conduct job searches.
It’s a FREE service that doesn’t cost you a dime. Unless you donate money to the library as a charitable contribution.
So–how can a person find a job they love. It could take trial and error. Yet it shouldn’t take 9 years like it did for me to realize that I shouldn’t be working in corporate offices!
In Working Assets I talk about creating a short-term Action Grid to figure out what kind of job you’d like to work at.
In a coming blog entry I’m going to focus on non-traditional workplaces.
In a future blog entry like I referred to before I will write about working hard the right way on a job.
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