job = purpose?

Guess I'm one of the few that actually loves my job. I am a caseworker and now i get all my kids adopted!! i love finding them the forever families that they need and deserve.

Some people enjoy being stay at home moms/dads and that is still a full time job. For those that do, all i gotta say is ENJOY!!!

I can see this from so many views. I've had a few jobs that I loved, but they were internships or VERY part time, so the lack of financial stability stressed me out. All my other jobs have just made me live for the weekend and I only stuck with them until I had something better suited to me.

Now, I'm unemployed because my best friend invited me to come live with her when she got her first real job out of college. My mom and I were driving each other crazy, and we've always wanted to live together since high school until one or both of us needed to move on. She has been generous enough to pay my bills until I get a job (which has not happened yet) just for the sake of having me there. We're more like sisters really, and we've always been attached at the hip. My family thinks its weird, but whatevs.

She's an lease analyst, and her job sounds boring as crap to me, but she LOVES it. She comes home and talks about all the tedious things she got to do every day, and I'm happy for her.

She also completely supports my goals to someday work from home selling crafty things and doing freelance art. I discovered having the free time to do the chores AND make art made me the happiest I've been in a long time, and I'm slowly trying to get to a point where I can make that a reality. I don't think I will make a ton of money, but I have to give it a try or I'll regret it forever. If it doesn't workout, I have a Graphic Design degree, and I can make the moolah doing that (which I also love). And my bestie makes plenty of money for now to cover all our needs, and she's told me a million times to stop asking her if she's ok with it.

If you're happy, either with your decision to work a job you hate for the money or with the job you have or lack thereof, who cares?

Also, I'm about to turn some people over my knee with all this bickering. Just quit it.

I'm a stay at home mom and I am busier than ever too! You all should just get along and not bicker over such things. There is way more important things to discuss! People are starving and dying all around the world! Just live your life happy and dont worry about bickering!! God bless!

I think the problem is you're looking at this wrong.

I have a 9-5 job. It's not a bad gig at all. Pays well. I work with nice people. I'm even using my degree. But I don't enjoy it because it's not my calling. I'm writing, but not the kind of writing I want to do forever. I want to write novels.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, yes, I would quit my day job. I would travel. But I would also keep writing because it is a part of who I am. It's still a job, but I feel like it gives my life purpose. I wouldn't want to sit on my rear all day watching TV. I want to create and give something to the world.

Wow, I'm in the exact same boat. I have a journalism degree, and while I am writing, it isn't what I want to be doing at all...I mean the type of writing I'd like to be doing. I also want to create something special in my lifetime. I wrote the first draft of a novel last month for NaNoWriMo. It happens every November, and I think that without it, I would never have had the discipline to complete the project (of course, I still need to edit the whole thing, but that's another story). If you haven't heard of it, you should check it out! Good luck!

I tried NaNo. I gave it a shot. I don't have the discipline for it! lol

I started my own writing critique group, though, and part of it is assigning homework to the group, so that should help me a ton.

Good luck to you!

I think it depends. My job is in what I majored in... I think the problem with it is that I'm chained to a desk all day. If I start freelancing I'll be a lot happier, doing what I love without having to get up and drive in every day.

Sorry, screwed that up. I love being a stay-at-home-dad & am extremely lucky to have a wife who would rather be working.

I like to feel useful. I like to feel I am using my talents in some way. I work part time as a teacher and feel useful both at home with my son and at work.

The best I've ever felt about getting up in the morning was when I volunteered for a year after college. I had been thinking 'If I won the lottery I'd volunteer again', so when I heard in church that one of the singers was going to start working at the night shelter in town, organising the education program, I volunteered, so hopefully I'll have plenty of 'purpose' next year!

I have my master's degree in social work -- and I'm an account manager for a staffing company. I like what I do -- finding people for jobs and jobs for people. But I know my heart's not in it. When I decided to go to school for social work -- it was because I was raised in foster care and felt really let down by the people in my life who were supposed to help me. I finished school and became a counselor. I hated it!!! I hated being surrounded by all that pain and anger and sadness. Happy people don't go to counseling. For 5 years I tried to squash down the burned out feelings. And then I quit -- walked away into a factory job that I loved!!! I didn't have to think or stress or worry. But after a minute I wanted to feel "useful" again -- I wanted to help people again. So I went into staffing/HR -- it seems a good compromise I guess.

But now I just sit and think how nice it would be if I could have my dream job. I want a little craft boutique. Something like etsy.com -- where people bring their stuff in to sell. But it's IRL so you can touch it and try it on. And I want it to have an open crafting room with lockers so that people can bring their stuff in to work on -- and just relax. I love crafting -- I love making jewelry. But it's something I have to squeeze in. I wish I could make it a priority -- I wish I could have the freedom of going whereever -- whenever. But alas -- I have bills in my name

Major kudos to our SAHM/Ds -- my co workers think I'm crazy for staying over 30 minutes to finish something up -- you guys are on the job 24/7!!! Much love and respect!!

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