Job or Career?
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- July
- 10
For some women, working is a job. Nothing more, nothing less. Just the paycheck, please. For others, it’s a Career with a capital “C”—the prize of using their higher education to get the golden goose egg (or trophy husband: sorry—had to put that in!). But I wonder: does it ever feel like both?
For me, it does. There are definite days that I LOVE MY JOB – and feel empowered and proud that I’ve worked my way up from a struggling editorial assistant at a national publication to a senior editor position at a glossy local magazine where I get paid to know my neighborhood. But other days, when I feel bogged down with having to drive all over the county, yet still find time to pick up my kids, dinner and dryclearning, not to mention have the emotional headspace to deal with “stuff” with my kids, it feels like a chore….and oh, how I wish I could just “sleep in” and call it a day. What about you? What’s your working mom feeling regarding work?
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Work is what you do to earn money so that you can enjoy the better things during the rest of your life – like vacations, music instruction, sleep-away camps, etc. When you’re working so hard that there really isn’t time to HAVE a life, that’s when you’ve crossed the line. I quit a job over that once, and I’d do it again in a minute.
It’s so important to love what you do. You don’t have to love every single second of it, but you should love it in general. So many people are doing jobs they hate (even if it IS what they went to school for) just because they have to. It sound like you enjoy what you do – consider yourself lucky!