"Choose the Job You Love [And You Will Never Work A Day In Your Life]"

I am NOT an ardent student of Confucius, the Chinese Philosopher BUT please allow me to borrow his one-liner:  "Choose the Job You Love [And You Will Never Work A Day In Your Life]".  Let's put aside the first word of this enduring Confucian wisdom and focus instead on the core essence of its inaccuracy.  the notion that a lovable job does NOT equate to hard work OR work at all, for that matter📗📙📘

Actually, NO sirrrrrs, it would be remiss of us to overlook that first word since it represents much of WHAT's wrong with this quotation.  Because that word 'CHOOSE' claims that people really do have a choice WHEN selecting their job. YES it does insinuate that those of us in jobs we hate OR jobs we mildly dislike have intentionally chosen their career paths.  One might even say that to be spoiled for career choice is a luxury of living [WHICH is amusing] considering the origin of that quotation.  BTW, even among those living in the First World, though, a vast majority have little choice in the vocation they end up pursuing.  In essence, that freedom we relish to choose one's career so that it generates this thing called 'LOVE' is really only in the purview of a few.  True, it's nice to imagine that choice is widely available, that we can choose to be an artist or a church musician BUT the sad reality is that we just CAN'T.  Probably, the sort of choice to which Confucius referred has, more often than NOT, been unavailable to many of us💥💥💥

BUT anyway, enough dissecting that quotation.  Let's move instead to that very core issue WHICH is essentially the notion that a job you love is the 'ticket' you need to a life in WHICH work DOESN'T really exact a toll.  In order to articulate the inaccuracy of that quotation, it is imperative to explain a term commonly known as 'EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT WHICH is a better way to conceive of that 'LOVE' an individual might feel at work💥💥💥

That 'EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT' occurs WHEN an employee is so 'SWITCHED ON' at work, so motivated, focused, interested and involved, they end up producing some of the best work imaginable for their employer.  EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT is:

• WHEN they exert greater effort at work
• WHEN they invest more of their cognitive
• And WHEN they feel emotionally linked to their boss, their colleagues, their employer and YES, especially to their job

Our takeaway:  Let's begin with WHAT's perhaps the most obvious,  that NO ONE will actually love their job ALL OF THE TIME.  WHY?  Simple.  NO job is ever that perfect.  This means that even the best and most lovable jobs will contain experiences you absolutely love and experiences you will seriously loathe.  And even as the most credible researches will tell us that this usually happens NOT just once in a while BUT every day, perhaps from hour to hour OR even minute to minute.  To tweak this oft-quoted Confucius wisdom, can we reword it to:  HAVE A JOB YOU LOVE AND YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO WORK MOST DAYS IN YOUR LIFE.  That's simply calling a spade a spade, dude❗❗❗