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Work With Meaning: Paychecks and Life Purpose
Laura Parrino Byxbe, CPC
Job Search and Career Transition Trainer, Life Purpose Coach
414.737.1296
Inspiration Your work is to discover your work and
then with all your heart to give yourself to it…Buddha.
A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love…Marysarah Quinn
Mid Life Crisis Time is running out… Why am I here? What will I do with the rest of my life? What does it all mean?
Introductions My name is… Why I’m here tonight… My current employment situation… In my heart I secretly long to…
Choices about work… Making a living and having a financial plan to
take care of our dependents is part of life. But we must be certain to recognize the difference between authentic sacrifice and self-imposed masochism. The ultimate gift that adults pass on to the young, is a sense of values. And the primary value in life is not in the things we buy with the money we earn; the primary value in life is in living life fully.”………Mathew Fox
New Attitude Towards Today’s Job Market Attitude is everything – employers are
sensitive to how you are dealing with the world today…not the world you wish existed
Every job you get is temporary Every job is a seminar Every job is an adventure
New Attitude Every job you get is one where the satisfaction
must lie in the work itself…. Get pleasure from what you do because you use
the skills you most love to use, in the field you most love to work in, toward those goals you would most love to accomplish, knowing that God knows what an asset you are to that place, even when your employers don’t
Stay on Track 95% of the most common occupations five
years from now have not been thought of Amount of change that will happen
between 2000-2020 will be equal to the change from 1900-2000.
Constantly expand your skills so you can continually adapt to the every-changing marketplace
Do What You Love…. Getting Rich Your Own Way – Srully
Blotnick research project – 1982 1500 people – Group A – 83% of sample-
career chosen for making money now in order to do what they love later
Group B – 17% of sample - chose their career based on what they wanted to do now, and worry about the money later
New Adult Life Span Advances in healthcare, globalization and
technology have altered our world We are maturing earlier and living longer Multiple adulthoods instead of just one! Transitions occur because of loss and
change This is your chance to start over
Age has not always been tracked… Age was viewed as roles in life Half way point – 3 score and ten “Life is harder than they told us it would
be.”
Skills +Passion = Strength!
Skills Passions/Interests Job Marketplace The difference between a waitress whose
job is a passion vs. a paycheck
Steps to Finding Out What You Want to Do :1. An internal and spiritual process.2. Reflect on what has been - family life,
your job journey, peak moments3. Determine talents, skills, values4. Mission Statement - Determine your
Purpose. Once you have established your purpose, you will be able to develop projects that will take your dreams out of your imagination and make them part of your reality.
Steps to Finding… Flow! - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
What are some of the things that you do during which time stands still
Find your Passion! Acknowledge resistance
Steps to finding… Take action! Develop a plan Be careful who you share your dreams
with. You hear the word no at least144,000 times before you are 18.
“Those who abandon their dreams will discourage yours.”
Find a coach, mentor or success team.
Five Best Ways to Find a Job Asking for job leads – referrals ____% Knocking on the door____% By yourself, using the phone book yellow
pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you ____%
In a group with other job hunters____%