This week on Intent, we want to hear your best advice and action steps on finding purpose in your career. What can we do on a short-term and / or long-term mindset to bring more meaning and enlightenment to our jobs other than the fact that it helps pay our mortage and brings food to our tables?
After all, whether you work in a full-time or part-time position, it is inevitable that your career takes up a big chunk of the 24 hours you have in a given day. Wouldn’t it make sense to maximize that time as much as possible for maximum benefit–for yourself, your community and the world at large? 
Maybe it is a matter of bringing more of yourself to the job that you have right now–whether it is encouraging environmentally-friendly practices for the whole office or organizing after-work volunteer events. Or maybe it is a matter of changing jobs–from a tedious job that does not fit your passion to a more purpose-driven job that is actually aligned with your personal goal to improve the world. Maybe it is a matter of knowing how to articulate that purpose for yourself if you don’t know what your life purpose is to begin with.
We also might want to know: how can you find purpose in your career if your only option of the moment is flipping burgers?
Whatever idea you have, especially in this tumultous time when many people are enough having trouble as it is finding a job, we want to hear it. The more people on this earth work at their careers with a focused purpose and greater sense of meaning, the more joy and peace we can bring to those who need it the most–whether it is our own families or the suffering people in need on the other side of the world.
Join Intent’s mission this week to inspire others with ideas on how to find purpose in your career. Categorize your blog posts under "Purpose" and we will be featuring the best weekly content at the end of the week. If you simply want to share a quick idea or response in the comments below, we want to hear that as well. We can’t wait to read your contributions!
Dr. David Robinson
Focus on how what you do in your daily job activities benefits, makes life easier, enhances, helps to bring positive change to, other people. What gretaer purpose can there be but to help another fellow human?
Understand and feel good about the fact that what you do IS helping others in some way, without you having to get acknkowledgement for it.
Some way, some how you touch peoples' lives – maybe anonymously but that's alright, YOU know about it – no matter how minor or small it may be.
It is in these small, perhaps anonymous, ways that we touch others' lives in our jobs that we realize we truly are all connected!
I found a quote today that I think sums it up:
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. –George Burns
I don't believe I am a failure at what I love, but this quote somehow gives me the impetus to go for it!
Love the quote! And when it is said that way, it really makes you just want to go for it no matter what.
dear Yumi,
such a nice platform for worthy discussions. Though I liked the quote from Linda very much but I have slightly different perception for your kind attention :
http://www.intent.com/garima2078/blog/doing-what-…
Thanks for inspiring by picking such hot topics for discussions.
Peace and Love
Garima