On this week’s podcast, Justin Snyder makes a comment that’s stuck with me since our chat last week.
“You should do what did when you were 5, because that’s what you really enjoy – that’s what you’re really passionate about.”
I twittered it yesterday, and got some fun responses on Facebook…
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I also posed the question to my mom to see what she remembered and she responded…
What I remember most, not just at 5, but all through your childhoood, was your huge imagination and creativity. You also showed signs of being an entrepreneur. You were always a leader, never afraid to venture out on your own. Remember your 6th grade business of making money selling paper beds for those eggs, starting the MBC youth group newsletter, writing a corporate executive thinking you could be her young partner to help sell Legos, ….then your creativity always knew no bounds from art work to building a microphone with your Construx and performing a song you wrote yourself. Personal, I feel you would be happy in a career that gave you freedom to develop new ideas, use your creativity, and start new things. When you were the newspaper editor, it seemed that you mostly thrived in that job from your editorials. They gave you an outlet for your self expression. One thing for sure, you were never happy if you were boxed in. You hated the mundane standard school assignments. You stood out, however, when asked to do an assignment that gave you the opportunity to express your creative nature. Remember that poetry notebook you made that was so good and your teacher liked so much. You are such a free thinker, and you need a productive outlet to express all your creativity. Does that answer your question?
Yet currently I’m working in a cube farm doing this…
right click > send to paperwise > fill out form > click current > repeat
I’m not trying to bad mouth anything about my job, but that thought from Justin and my mom’s response (which I personally agree with and my dad concurred with over lunch) seems to bring me to think there’s something better out there for me. Just no clue what that might be in the future. I guess we’ll see.
So what about you? What did you enjoy doing when you were 5 yrs old? What are you doing now? How do they compare?
And as an aside, seen any jobs with a job description matching the description above :-)?
