Optimizing your career for happiness
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Optimizing your career for happiness
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Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#2I would also add to this.
Aligning your personal goals with your company's mission can be a game-changer in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. When your values and objectives resonate with those of your employer, every project becomes more meaningful, and motivation naturally increases.
Your personal goals become much easier to achieve, and you have more fun achieving the company goals because they're also helping you.
Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#3work 4 days not 5 as money allows
Then work 3 days not 4 as money allows
Then work 2 days not 3 as money allows
….
Then retire
Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#4I'd rather work for a leader with a strong product vision. Their job is to know where we are going. How we get there is what I'm being paid for.
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#5Easier said then done, which is weird because you would think everyone is on board with optimizing for happiness?
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#6work 4 days not 5 as money allows Then work 3 days not 4 as money allows Then work 2 days not 3 as money allows …. Then retire
I’ve never really been a fan of the concept of “retirement”. It feels very much like a Silent Generation/ Boomer idea that has run its course (for reasons both good and bad).
I watched grandparents on both sides retire and their mental decline tracked their decline in active engagement with meaningful activity.
The way I have always looked at it is that want to “retire from _having_ to work” and promote myself to working on things that I _want_ to work on.
Having said that, I like your “5, 4, 3, …” approach. I’d just be switching out “have to work” days with “want to work” days.
Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#7I'd rather work for a leader with a strong product vision. Their job is to know where we are going. How we get there is what I'm being paid for.
The leader needs to have both vision and an understanding of the job separation you described.
Many don't, in my opinion.
Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#8work 4 days not 5 as money allows Then work 3 days not 4 as money allows Then work 2 days not 3 as money allows …. Then retire
I’ve never really been a fan of the concept of “retirement”. It feels very much like a Silent Generation/ Boomer idea that has run its course (for reasons both good and bad). I watched grandparents on both sides retire and their mental decline tracked their decline in active engagement with meaningful activity. The way I have always looked at it is that want to “retire from _having_ to work” and promote myself to wor…
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Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#9I would also add to this. Aligning your personal goals with your company's mission can be a game-changer in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. When your values and objectives resonate with those of your employer, every project becomes more meaningful, and motivation naturally increases. Your personal goals become much easier to achieve, and you have more fun achieving the company goals beca…
Amen to that. I work for an organisation that operates in a sector that I care about deeply. I am a high performer, but ‘doing well at work’ is more a byproduct of me following my passion.
Re: Optimizing your career for happiness
#10I would also add to this. Aligning your personal goals with your company's mission can be a game-changer in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. When your values and objectives resonate with those of your employer, every project becomes more meaningful, and motivation naturally increases. Your personal goals become much easier to achieve, and you have more fun achieving the company goals beca…
This is a great perspective.
I believe that great leaders facilitate this, whether by setting a meaningful mission in the first place, or by aligning company needs with the personal beliefs and needs of individuals in a team.
That being said! I think the likelihood that you land at a company with a mission that truly aligns with your own is approximately the same as the likelihood your equity ends up being worth a damn at the end of the day.
Cherish it id you’ve got it.