I love my job!

I love my job!

Are you one of those persons who cringes when you hear someone say that? Or are you one of those persons who thinks, “yep, I know what you mean!”

From the earliest of days of my childhood, I can remember playing those imagination games of “what do you want to be when you grow up?”

I will always be grateful for the various people whom I believe by divine appointment, intersected my life to help clarify and even cast a vision for my future. Jim and Ruby Barber, Larry Bone, Bob Harrington (AKA, The Chaplain of Bourbon Street), Duncan Dodds, Kevin McAfee, and Laurie Beth Jones just to mention a few.

More than ever before, I meet so many people who are either disrupted by the economy or some even well into a career still wondering, “what am I going to be when I grow up?” Something is within our DNA that wants to know we are doing exactly what we were built to do. In my haste, I confess I do not always put my tools back where they belong. So, when time comes and I need a phillips-head screwdriver, I will grab what ever I can find… usually a pointy object (last time it was an oyster-opening tool) and try to make it work. Even last week I could not find my hammer so I tried to drive a nail with the back of a wrench. And it bent the nail! How frustrating.

That is how it is when we attempt to do that which we were not intended to do. Nothing is inherently wrong with the tool, just being used for the wrong job.

Meet my friend Laurie Beth Jones. In her latest book, Jesus Career Counselor, How to find and keep your perfect work, she provides a perspective on career selection that I believe is unlike any other that I have read. It’s one of those books when you get through you say, “why didn’t I see that before? It’s so clear.”

If you are coming up on a new intersection in life and looking for some encouragement and/or guidance, I encourage you to take a read. She will help Explore your mission, Assess and embrace your unique personality strengths, discover your greatest talents, and even help you write your vision for life.

My hope for you is you will come to be (if not already) one of those persons who says out loud, “I love my job!”