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Walt Headstrong

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What does your job mean to your life?

I just wondering about the meaning of jobs to our living. Is it just something you like it? Is it something you have to do to pay your bill?

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    Megan DaGata

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    Jan 5 2012: The job I hold now has little effect on my life. It is just a job. I was unemployed for five months following a layoff and it was the first one available to me. I am seeking the diamond though. The job that I feel passionately about and that allows me to make a difference in the lives of many. I am not sure what is to come next, but I have great hopes for the year to come.
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    Silvia Marinova 20+

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    Jan 5 2012: I believe it's really essential to love your job as it is the place where you spend a great deal of your life. That's why I've decided to do only what I enjoy. :) I'm an English teacher at the moment but who knows what's coming next? :D

  • Varlan Allan 10+

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    Dec 6 2011: Keeping the fires burning. More and more jobs are simply about sustaining life. Not my idea of an enjoyable existence, but in this it is hard to break cycle because now life revolves around "paying" your bills, unlike the world of discovery and enrichment and sustainability.

  • Wenceslao Bunge

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    Dec 6 2011: If you feel you should be there, doing what you are doing then its okay, it is your function in this life, at least in this present moment. If you feel uncomfortable, that you are doing something you shouldn't then many meanings may arise which affect you negatively. For me in means that NOW I should be here working because that's where I am, making money to be able to live and with that resource help others. Its not a minor part in life cause for most of us it longs several hours per day so we should really have a positive thinking about our job. We should not think it as an isolated part of our life, is as much of you as your spare time or any thing you do. For me its a good exercise when i'm working to stop a minute or two and be conscious that what I'm doing helps to fulfill my life.

    • Varlan Allan 10+

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      Dec 6 2011: I like your thoughts on this Wenceslao. It is kind of an acceptance of the situation and being happy that it is a part of who you are at that moment.
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