A lot of people take jobs that they don’t like at all.  Sometimes I wonder how they can even survive a whole work day in a job they simply dislike.  It’s no fun at all.  I have always made it a point to choose work that I know I would enjoy doing, and enjoy the benefits at the end.  I can’t imagine myself doing something that I really don’t like doing.  I would surely be so miserable!

An excerpt from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet goes:

 Work is love made visible.

And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.

And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

I believe that a person who doesn’t enjoy the work he does will not make a good output.  Oh, yes, it may be so-so… just fine, that’s it.  But not really something that would show that he or she definitely loved what they were doing.  When you love what you’re doing, it shows.  You become so proud of your accomplishment.  And with good accomplishments, you don’t only feel proud of yourself, you also inspire others to do their best in their own work.  It’s like a chain reaction, isn’t it?  So if you’re not enjoying your work, then that’s no place for you to be working in at all.  Get into something that you really like… or better yet.. LOVE YOUR WORK!