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You Deserve Happiness at Work
 If
you work an eight-hour day, with occasional overtime, you spend
1/3
of your adult life at work. Don't you owe it to yourself to be
happy during that third of your life? Of course you do.
This is what Stephen Covey suggested when asked
what criteria he would suggest must be met in order to know if
it is time to leave your employment when unhappy at work:
"The key to a happy job is to say yes
to three questions:
- Do I really love doing it?
- Am I good at it?
- Can I make a good living at it?
If the answer to any of those three is no,
do three things:
- Increase your investment in your skill
and knowledge development through training and education, all
on your own initiative.
- Study fields and organizations to discover
what their real needs are to see if there is a marriage between
your abilities and those needs. This will take a lot of initiative
because no one will do this for you. Cultivate a research attitude.
Visit with placement bureaus, career consultants. Read, What
Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles.
- Realize you're the creative force of your
own life and you're not a product of your situation. Take responsibility
and sidestep negative energy and make good things happen for
you, little by little and in a matter of few weeks and months,
your whole world will be different. Replace television with books."
Take your happiness into your own hands, put
forth the initiative to find your passion and your happiness,
make the changes without fear or hesitation, and you will find
happiness in your work, just like you deserve.
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"Happiness is often the result of being
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