You have achieved

[transam]

Success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play



(Warren Beatty )

 

[securespark]

My electrical career began in 1983, but I had a couple of jobs in the food industry in the late 80s, as that is what I was trained in; my electrical apprenticeship had barely started.

I believe that you spend a large proportion of your life working, so if possible, it should be in a job you enjoy.

That is why I left the food industry and concentrated on the electrical.

 

[EddieM]

My electrical career began in 1983, but I had a couple of jobs in the food industry in the late 80s, as that is what I was trained in; my electrical apprenticeship had barely started.

I believe that you spend a large proportion of your life working, so if possible, it should be in a job you enjoy.

That is why I left the food industry and concentrated on the electrical.

Or, you could do what my mate did. His attitude was all jobs are dull. So he worked very hard until the age of 40 when he retired as a multi millionaire.

 

[charliegolf]

Or, you could do what my mate did. His attitude was all jobs are dull. So he worked very hard until the age of 40 when he retired as a multi millionaire.

The likelihood of that for most is miniscule. However, what you can do is, minimise your financial needs and only work as much as you need to. Many many people have good lives on 'average' pay. If you can develop a skill that provides that average pay, for only half the time- bingo. Two teachers working 0.5 contracts; 2 nurses similar.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Maybe I'm weird, but it wasn't financial reward that was my motivation. It literally was the achievements that motivated me.

 

[Bodd]

Maybe I'm weird,

Does anyone disagree with Bobby on this statement?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Does anyone disagree with Bobby on this statement?

Yes.

























He shouldn't have said "Maybe".

 

[sooey]

I'm wondering what those achievements were, I'm sure they'd have been dazzling...........like a freshly painted white karsi.

 

[Bodd]

Yes.



























He shouldn't have said "Maybe".

 

[transam]

I suppose any one who has a hobby and made a living out of the hobby ? Is a lucky person

Only person I have heard about that did plumbing as a hobby was that American film director
David Lynch

I recall him saying so in an interview years ago

 

[johnny2007]

I only worked for the money.
Who ever paid me more for the same job would get me.
Then when I got home I had my hobbies, one of them being carpentry and joinery which is what I was doing for a living.
Weird I didn't enjoy paid work as much as doing the same thing unpaid.

 

[Bodd]

I knew a fella from Blackheath who retired from Schweppes as CEO then started plumbing... He didn't have to work as he was a millionaire. Yet his work was awful..... I'd understand if he enjoyed thd job and was excellent.

 

[Dangee]

Mr Wet Y Fronts, 1988. (Heat winner, didn’t have “the balls” to go to the national final). Shelley’s lazerdome I think I was supposed to go to but I bottled it!

 

[teaboyjim]

Success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play
(Warren Beatty )

Good quote transam

 

[teaboyjim]

Or, you could do what my mate did. His attitude was all jobs are dull. So he worked very hard until the age of 40 when he retired as a multi millionaire.

He'll probably stay healthier through lack of stress as well