From the article: Bring Your Passion Back to Work
Many people who work stay passionate about their work - maybe not every day - but generally speaking, they remain passionate about their work: the cause, the contribution, the mission and vision, the coworkers, or the customers. Something about their work kindles a passion in their hearts that shows every day at work. Please share how you stay passionate about your work. Share Your Thoughts
Staying passionate about one's work
- Unfortunately, it's more about having made a good decision on choosing a job, a job that aligns with your values and passion. However, it is often too late for some people to change jobs after having made a wrong choice. So, what one needs to do to remain passionate is to know more about one's job while on the other hand finding something else that meets your purpose in life. It can be reading, writing, sports, etc. (Susan suggests: or you can consider a career transition to something closer to your passion. But, your tip is an excellent one, too.)
- —Guest Niki Nkuna
Do it as an act of worship to God
- There were a lot of times that I felt sick when Monday comes, until I read 1 Corinthians 10:31 that says "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."
- —Guest Tawing
Career pathing question
- I've really enjoyed your articles and I've shared them with our HR Dept (with little reaction, unfortunately) but the idea of "career pathing" has carried a negative tone for me since working overseas for so many years, and the connotations it has in other countries (e.g., after five years, you're a manager without any effort, etc.) My question is a bit related to the comments from Karmic and Michelle. I started as a Peace Corps Volunteer, have been a technical specialist, a program manager, up through an assistant country director. That was when I decided that I wanted to stay with project management so that I could actually see the effects of projects at the ground level. Now, when one talks about career pathing, I still think it would be applicable for someone of my age (52 y.o.) because I'm not yet at the end of my career. However, I don't see myself going any "higher" because I don't like the detachment from the field. I could go for more "creative" positions. What do you think
- —LilBuster
The Learning Experience
- To me, everyday at work is an opportunity to learn something new and that knowledge contributes to a great extent in firing me up for work. I love to learn, and on-the-job, there's plenty of room for that because, in the course of my job, I encounter new people, ideas and hurdles, which once scaled, become a feather in my cap, knowledge that can't be taken away from me.
- —Guest Nora
HR Professional
- I make a deliberate choice to love what I do or else, I get out of it totally. I always know that every little thing done is to add value to someone's life and some things are beneath the surface. I may never get to know the impact straight away but nonetheless, someone's life needs to be made better; in this way I get passionate about what I do as I do it puposefully with the intention of making it better, adding value to what we do and love for the people we serve.
- —Guest Faith-Uganda
Poverty Alleviation
- How do you keep your passion in what you do, if one works in the developmental field, earns good salary and perks, but does not see any changes in the lives of the people whom one is supposed to uplift. Most times guilt engulfs me, because I have every creature comfort in the workplace, and of course, am busy, but on papers and computers. So, how do you feel what one does is purposeful and has an impact.
- —Guest Karmic
Love What You Do Every Day
- I stay passionate about my work because I make sure that I get to do something I love every day. This is hard sometimes because all of my must do's get in the way of my want to do's, but like the article says, I have to do certain things, even if I don't want to. But, I make sure I get to do the fun stuff that I love every day.
- —Michelle
