Do You Really Have To Love Your Job?

Last week, an interesting conversation came up at a dinner that I attended in Boston after I keynoted the Human Capital Institute conference. Some of the attendees were of the belief that people should love their jobs. Honestly, I don’t think this is entirely true. On the micro level, you don’t have to love every aspect of your job. No matter what you do, there will be some tasks that you find boring or not enjoyable. Occasionally, things will get tedious. I hear a lot of “I hate doing…” and “I hate working with…” but that isn’t the same thing as disliking your job. You can still be happy and love your job. Sometimes people have a bad day, or get frustrated and burnt out. But on the macro level, you can still enjoy what you do overall. Don’t confuse loving your job with having to love all of the tasks that are associated with it. If you have more days that are happy and positive, where you wake up thinking about how much you like your job, then it is safe to say you truly enjoy the work that you are doing. However, if you wake up 4 out of 5 days of the week dreading the day because you have to work, it is time to address that problem and find out what the issue is with your job that is causing you to feel that way.

There isn’t a job in the entire world where you will love everything that it entails 100% of the time. That doesn’t mean you don’t love your job… you just have to learn how to differentiate between your job and the tasks you dislike. The key is to be happy, enjoying work and the people you work with!

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