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Ipek Ozkanoglu Alkan

Project Manager, ADBA Integrated Marketing Communications

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Are you really happy with your job?

I kind of feel like nobody is fully happy with their jobs. It is kind of a sickness, these days. It's mostly, we have been grown up being told we have to earn money before we can run after our dreams.
If you are happy, please tell us the secret.
If you are not happy, tell us the reason.

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Topics: Happy workplaces happiness psychology
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    Feb 4 2012: Yes, I am happy with my job. The secret is, put it in park and ask what kinds of work made you happy in the past. Good, now ask "who makes (or does) this?" and then go find those places. Good! Now park on their job boards until they hire you doing what it is that makes you happy. Believe it or not, not all work places are dominant, hostile and greedy. Should you find yourself in a hell hole, start again.
    Many are not happy. They randomly scour the job boards for a place to plug in instead of cherry picking where they want to be. Adrift and looking for an escape, they grab at any branch and find they're again "stuck". Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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