When Is It Worth It...

Sometimes it is very easy to determine whether something is worth your time and effort or if you should just pass. Is this job worth the money? Is it the career I want? Will it get me the dream job that I've always wanted? Is this my dream job or is it just some horrible nightmare? What the he'll did I do in a past life to deserve this? =)

A job is a job, which could be a career or it could just be something you do to pass the time between the hours of 8 and 5. You go to work, do what needs to be done and collect a pay cheque every two weeks. Sometimes you work hard, stay late and feel like your drowning in paperwork, or in my case, line drawings on a computer. I suppose if I printed out every single piece of work that I did, I could literally be drowning too. Other times, you sit there staring at a screen, or three, and suddenly you realize that you have no idea how long you have been wandering off into nothing and it's lunch time. I think everyone has their own guilty pleasure...Facebook, Twitter, etc. It's amazing how many hours one can kill at work without actually doing any work.

So what makes it worth it?

The pay can always be better. The perks can always be larger and more enticing. There's always a better boss, better assistant and nicer coworkers. An office with a view, company car, increased vacation time...On the other hand, there are hundreds of companies with horrible management, terrible support, pitiful pay and lame coworkers.

I guess the real question is which company do you work for and what would it take for you to move on? Is the security of a pay cheque enough to keep you working in a sub-par environment? At what point do you wake up in the morning and just say to yourself, "It's just not worth it", then roll over and go back to sleep?

What is the breaking point?

Maybe it should be when you reach the point of asking yourself why you are there, every single morning at 8:15AM.

~Bean




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