Eighty-five percent of workers worldwide, in an anonymous Gallup poll , said they hated their jobs.
I was talking to opposing counsel last week who told me that after 30 plus years of practicing divorce law, she was going to try something else. She said that the parties were more unreasonable, lawyers were meaner and courts were harsher than when she started and she had reached the end of her patience. She asked me if I was burned out too.
I told her that I wasn’t. I see my work as much more than the tasks required in any particular case. My purpose in life, the reason I am here on earth, is to help people untangle the difficulties they have gotten themselves into, solve problems and sort everything out into good order.
This works for other jobs as well. My wife supervises the front office of a plastic surgery center. I told her that her purpose in life was to help people look their best, add beauty to the world and make people happier. Try reframing your job in the comments below.