An abridged excerpt of a conversation I had last week. Truth be told, it's a recurring topic in conversations had with others and myself.
Him: What’s the job front saying though?
Me: Work? I’m still looking for something I really enjoy.
Him: Enjoy?
Me: Yeah, of course. We spend the bulk of our adult life at work, we must be able to extract some enjoyment from it shouldn’t we?
Him: Nah mate.
Me: No?
Him: Nope. I think people place too much emphasis on this “happiness at work” shit.
Me: What do you mean?
Him: What you do is what you do innit. Reality is, there are not enough dream jobs to for everyone so you might as well do a job that doesn’t stress you out and pays you enough to do what you want to do.
Me: Seriously?
Him: Yep. Its what you do in your time outside of work that counts.
Me: Seriously?
Him: Yeah mate. I’d love to have a job where I go in at 9am, no, 10am, no 11 am and finish at 6pm or whatever and no matter what I’m doing, when it hits 6pm, I drop it and walk out, and when I leave work, I don’t think about it until I’m back there.
Me: Seriously?
Him: Yeah man. I would go home, link my people and be easy, spend time and energy with them.
Me: Interesting.
Him: Trust me, it’s what you do out of work, in your own time that matters.
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