How to find the job you love

If you take the average of the many studies that have been conducted into employee engagement since the 1990’s, somewhere in the region of over 80% of the worldwide population hate their job.

And these figures aren’t budging. That means the majority of us spend a lifetime in a job that makes us unhappy and unfulfilled. How depressing!

Many of us choose a career path that belongs to someone else. I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve coached who chose their career to keep someone else happy, usually a parent. Back in 1998 when I graduated from University nobody talked about finding work you love. You chose a career path and stuck with it for as long as possible and hopefully got a fat pension at the end of it. Quitting your job without having another one to go to was almost unheard of…

This article was originally posted on The Huffington Post.