Working happy has been a passion of mine for over ten years. I wasn’t able to figure out the combination until October 2007. The key that unlocked my door to working happy was easy to understand, but hard to apply. I worked in
- Retail
- Construction
- Sales
- Marketing
- Education
- Media buying
- Banking
- Owned my own business
But something was always missing. The closest that I ever got to working happy was my mushroom business. The mushrooms grew wild at the end of July and into the beginning of August. I scoured the hills looking for them, picking them and selling them to fine dining restaurants. It was exciting, fun, and a workout. I must have lost 10 pounds that summer. The problem was making a career out of mushroom mongering. Unless you have green houses and a staff of growers there is no way to make a consistent profit throughout a whole year.
Over the next ten years I tried to capture that love of work, but I felt empty. My business degree was well rounded, a little too well rounded because it wasn’t opening the doors to jobs that interested me. At every job there was depression and contemplation. Maybe I just wasn’t seeing something that others could see. I took notes, switched jobs, and read books, but nothing worked.
I enjoyed my mushroom business because I enjoyed the process. That was the key to my work happiness – enjoying the process of my work. The problem was obvious, but hard to change. Then I realized that I wasn’t making the proper connections. I was looking for the pain instead of how to make it interesting.
Enjoy the Process
Three simple words that will change your working life. Your work happiness belongs in your hands. That’s what Work Happy Now is all about – Helping companies create an environment that helps people enjoy the process of their work.
It all stems from communication. The person that you communicate with the most is yourself. You need to be open with what you want and how you will get it. No one is going to hand over more money or interesting work. It’s up to you to make it happen.
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