Are You Happy with ‘What You Do’??

Time & Again, this question keeps popping up in my head to which everyone has a different perspective, and maybe, there’s no one answer to it.

The Question: Why do you continue working at a place/ in an organization where you don’t enjoy the work you do, or maybe you don’t like the work environment?

I am sure by the time you have scrolled up the doodle, your first reaction was, “ Huh, Money, of course.” And I somewhat agree also. It’s a notion or the truth, you decide, but yes, people remain at the same place because they get paid handsomely or have drawn a kind of complacency in that job or structure.

But still, how can someone spend a significant portion of their lives doing something they don’t enjoy?

The other day, I asked the same thing from my friend, who gave me a different outlook altogether. He explained that everyone is not running after work and not looking for satisfaction from it. They do it to earn a good living for their family and build a happy place for them. As long as that goal is getting fulfilled, they least care about the work front.

Another thing he added was not everyone doesn’t have the luxury to follow their passion or leave the place they are not liking. As in the late ’20s, everyone looks for financial stability, and that job fulfills them with the stability piece.

Look, I agree with what he was saying, and a part of it was genuine also. Look at our fathers, who have either worked at organizations to make us stand or had joined their dads to grow the business. The question of liking or not liking never popped up.

So, if they can, then why can’t we? Correct?

But, we lack one of the essential qualities they had, and we don’t! And that is patience and ways of seeking happiness. They are happy in what they do, we are not, and hence, we crib and remain unsatisfied throughout the time we work. We don’t have any positive attitude, and it’s just the regular monotonous job that we finish like a day war and head back to our homes.

It doesn’t matter how you justify the situation to others, but what matters is how you explain it to yourself.

And probably that’s what my absolute reference was! Either you grow out of your situation by switching, making some change, or finding your happy place, or you remain in that zone but find HAPPINESS.

If you are not happy with what you do, I don’t think you can even keep your families happy or even give them the comfortable place you want to build. Seize the time and make the most of it! Sooner or later, we all will get there, where the heart is :)

Let me know what you think of the question now?