“To flourish is to bloom, to grow, to do the opposite of languish.” – Noelle Oxenhandler
This week a friend told me that she had found her perfect job. Having had a ridiculous week at work, the idea of a perfect job intrigued me. What exactly would be the perfect job for me? When I typed “perfect job” into a Google search, I got 98,800,000 hits. It seems that there are a lot of people out there looking for the same thing. So if so many people are searching, is there really any such thing as the perfect job?
Every personality test I have ever taken has given me the same results. I would make a good teacher or writer or minister or counselor or consultant. They also say I am happiest working with people, and would do best in a leadership role. Now, I have been working for the last few years hoping that I could leave it all behind and write books for a living. But if I am happiest working with people, and need to lead, what if I got my wish and ended up solitary and miserable? What if I can’t hack it as a writer simply because I lack the personality for it?
So what, then, would be my perfect job? What would I be happiest doing?
My perfect job:
- Working for myself or within a partnership with someone else who I love and respect.
- Writing books.
- Running inspiring workshops with small groups of women/ girls.
- Meeting and working with inspiring people on a regular basis, from all over the world.
- Making at least £45,000 a year (after tax – ha!)
- Having flexible hours and locations so that I could visit family and friends whenever I want.
- Having a personal assistant who I trust.
- Having a art/ writing materials budget.
- Every day to include creativity, inspiration and beauty.
I almost wrote that it sounded impossible, but I stopped myself. It’s my perfect job and I will not settle for anything less – giggle.
What is your perfect job?
Umm…. that’s MY perfect job! Seriously. If your list of 9 things were true about my work (except maybe #2 which for me is more a nice-to-have) I would leap out of bed every morning with a silly grin on my face. But having it staring back at me black on white on the screen like this is a bit scary, cause now the responsibility is mine to make it happen and that makes my stomach tie up in knots!
Came across your blog via Sas’ blog. And I’m Canadian-living-in-England too 🙂
love this. i just wrote a piece on creating our own job descriptions over at In the Wish Studio.
http://inthewishstudio.blogspot.com/2009/11/embracing-butterflies-job-description.html
Keep expanding your vision of your perfect job!!! I am doing the same.
hmm, that scarily sounds like my dream job too 🙂
honestly i hear ya!
and you know what the greatest thing is,
although we may not have exactly it yet…
we are all taking the right steps there.
xo