Do you like what you do occupationally?

It seems that many people do not. That would be the reason for “hump-day” and  T.G.I.F. ,

and other references to the ending of the work week.

If people enjoyed their work…they would enjoy Monday as much as the weekend.

As someone who has enjoyed my vocation for the 30 years I have been in and at it , I recommend to

any young person starting out….do as Mark Twain suggested many years ago…

“Make your vocation your vacation”.

Ask people who know you, get tested, look into and discover what it is that you love to do….

that your talents and desire drive you toward…and build a career out of it.

Even if you are 40…..why suffer through another 20-30 years of drudgery in a career field you

do not like or enjoy.

I believe a secret to life is searching for and finding that thing you love to do…

and have talent and gifting toward…and commit to building a career around it.

If you like and enjoy your work…..it will not seem like work. You will have a constant craving

to learn, grow and will most likely succeed because you have a God-gifted talent and a

God-gifted desire to do this particular thing.

Recognize that not only did Our Creator bless you with a talent toward something…..

He placed within you desire to draw you toward the thing in which you could realize the most fulfillment and success.

He is not One to trick you. Throughout the message of His Word He continually tells us He is with us.

He is for us….He has good intention toward us.

Know these things.

If you know and believe He made you, He bent you toward certain things. Those things are probably what you enjoy.

These things are what you should seek to build a working-life around. Seek to build around your interests.

I know of many people who work at a career for their whole life ….and never enjoy it. Those people most likely

carry some of that unhappiness home with them everyday. That lends itself to venting about the day. Venting about the unhappiness at work will eventually breed unhappiness at home. It cannot help but occur. A cycle of dreading work can be laid upon children who then hear the constant complaining from an unhappy parent who never took the time nor effort to discover a vocation they found uplifting and enjoyable. That child listens and learns that work is a drudgery. And the cycle continues.

Break it.

Make your vocation your vacation and it will keep you youthful. Your mind and your energies and your creative

juices will be flowing forever. You will not complain at home….you will be sharing Joy. You will be sharing your talent.

My father knew at 19 what he should be doing vocationally. He settled for several other jobs and spent 17 years doing

these other things before becoming what he was intended to be.

At 37, he stepped out and changed his life.

He became the Minister he knew at 19 that he had been gifted and talented and instructed to be.

When he died at 55, he had been so effective in those 18 years that there were about 1500 people at his funeral.

That is effective living.

Work can be fulfilling. Work can be not only productive but pleasing.

What talent or gift within you has been corralled in by doing a job you do not enjoy?

Has it slowly made you into a complaining, unhappy family member?

My encouragement would be to seek the things you know within you that you love. Take a risk.

Take the risk of enjoying a career of working at things you are gifted to be great at.

It can be done. If you have life and breath, it is not too late. There are people who can and will prosper

from your talent, gifts and effective energies.

Vocation. Vacation. Fulfillment.

Terry

July, 2015