I can’t refer to my blog as my career yet so I’ll refer to it as my blogging efforts. Currently I am unemployed and looking for a job as I need cash coming in. It’s important that I keep everything realistic and not percieve my blogging efforts to be some kind of get-rich-quick scheme or expect any immediate results.
I have worked in so many different places and jumped in and out of jobs that I cannot even remember the names of the companies anymore. All the jobs, literally all of them, had one thing in common that would stand out even after I had left, people with warm personalities that would create a comfortable atmosphere. It’s funny because out of all the jobs that I have ever had, I enjoyed the factory job the most and it was nothing to do with the actual job itself. I wasn’t interested in sitting at a desk assembling little wires and looking down a microscope for 8 hours a day. I was there only because the people had great warm personalities. That’s what kept me there. All the other jobs that I started and left was as a result of not finding the right people to work with.
Is this the wrong attitude?
In terms of employment I know alot of people would be against this attitude and would really only encourage me to be concearned about my skills and not so much about the warm personalities that work there. I agree to a certain point but wouldn’t this planet be a boring place if we were all the same hey?? I think stress at work is sometimes to do with being around people that you have nothing in common with which probably means that the job you are doing is also not your real passion. That stress can lead to health problems and without health you have no job anyway.
Part of having good health at work, for me personally, is being around warm people. People who care and share the same interests as I do and not keep repeating that same old parrot phrase, “A job is just a job.”
It’s a bit like that with my blogging. I don’t want to feel that ‘a blog is just a blog’ I want to feel comfortable with what I’m doing and I would only want the same for my readers too. I don’t want people to be feel as though it is a chore reading my blogs and if they do feel like that I would genuinely want them to go and read and interact within a community where they are happier. If I were an employer I would want people who are passionate about what they do.
So, what sparked off this blog post? I was having a hot chocolate today with my daughter in Starbucks and she was asking what jobs I had applied for and asked, “What happens if you have applied for lots of jobs and you get two offers? Which job do you take and how do you choose?” It is a great question and the very first thing that came to my mind was, “I’ll see which place has people that make me feel welcome, have warm personalities and where I feel comfortable around them. I will take the job where these people are.”
What’s your opinion on this?
Do you think that personal situations sometimes force you into taking jobs you hate? Or do you really have a choice but just settle for less because it’s less effort on your part? I mean, I could stress myself out and worry about not having a job, not bother writing this blog and use my unemployment situation as an excuse. But infact it’s an opportunity so I’m not going to let myself be so stressed that I can’t write this blog because something in my heart is telling me that this blog is my life line. I don’t know how, yet, but I just know it is.
