Working For The Weekend Vs Working For Your Passion

If you hate your job because it’s too hard and if your idea of the perfect life is slacking off all day and doing as little work as possible this post is not for you. But if you hate what you do because you feel it’s meaningless and you feel you are wasting yourself away then I want to talk to you. If you’re unhappy I urge you to take action, you’ve only got so many years in this life to be wasting them away in unhappiness. No, working for the weekend isn’t a valid excuse (nor is it a good song).

When you’re working for the weekend you’re hurting everyone, since you’re unsatisfied with your work odds are your output is going to suck. Sure you might keep a standard out of necessity or nagging but as the weeks and months and years roll on you know your work will start slipping and you’ll even feel anger against your job. Every time you sneak in 5 minutes, 10 minutes to check on Facebook or Digg or your personal email you’ll do so with a sense that you’re somehow cheating the system and getting some justice by your own hands.

Does this sound familiar?

That’s not good for your employer clearly, but it’s even worse for you! You’re living unhappily 5 or 6 days a week only to feel a fleeting respite for a day or two on the weekend. That’s not living well! Sheesh, lets look at the freaking numbers, You’ll be working for at least 40 years, working at least 5 days a week for a day or two of actual living. That’s 2080 weeks of suffering rather than living! How does it look?

It does not look good. Keep in mind those bars are not sales estimates or a budget comparison, that’s your life. If there’es ever been a bleak picture I’d say that’s one. So what do you do? You stop, right now.

Stop and go find work you love. Find a company that does fantastic work and get into it, or better yet start your own. Go and seek work that feels like play, work so fulfilling that if you have to work 48 hours straight it feels like a treat. It does’t matter how specific or abstract your passion is, I assure you there’s a demand for it out there. Your passion is talking to people? There’s a thousand jobs out there that would make you happy. Your passion is Battlestar Galactica? Fuck it, if Trekkies can make a living out of it so can you.

Start today.