#Trust30 online initiative - a 30-day writing challenge - Part 4 - How can I do work I’m passionate about?

Post-it Question by Jenny Blake

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them.
Bonus: tweet or blog a photo of your post-it.
(Author: Jenny Blake)


How can I do work I’m passionate about?

See my answer in 48 hours... 

• If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
• Hence (a bit cynically), if a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well (or at all !) ;)
• Be prepared to move elsewhere (Scotland ? Medium to long term plan ?)
• Sustainable Development (see my blog : http://my-sustainable-development.blogspot.com/)
• Bottom-up: trying to adapt my experience to jobs on offer

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• Top-down: here's my passionate ideal job - where / how can I do it ?

I am passionate about working in Sustainable Development. Since my Master's degree in this subject I've had mixed fortunes in finding related interesting work. I plan to market my skills and eventually move to Scotland (or elsewhere) where there are real opportunities and other motivated people to work with.