Why society wants you to follow it.

I first got into the career field because I recognized how central work is to the happiness of the individual and the character of any society. Work offers the individual the opportunity to share acts of love and beauty, to see his goodness reflected in the image of his work. By the work that a society chooses to do or not to do, it defines its values and shapes its future. Since work is what we do with most of our walking lives, we must, if we count life valuable, consider what we are working for.
            
  I also Realized that today, for all too many, work is drudgery, the thing to do to pay bills, or a mad chase for material wealth and social status. I saw how bored , alienated, under-challenged, or over-stressed so many are in their work, and how their unhappiness at work affects their families, friends, and communities. It seemed to me that the popular conception of work as principally a matter of economics and social status was at the heart of the matter. Many individual tragedies of alienation, emptiness, and despair, as well as community, national, and global problems seemed to be aggravated, if not in fact caused, by this conception of work.

          
    For many who came to me seeking career guidance, a “better job” was not enough. There was a real desire for a broader conception of work—one that would reflect the spiritual as well as the material life of man. My search for such a vision of work led me finally to the notion of work as art, the unique creative experssion of the individual. The essence of a vision of work as art is inspiration and excellence. Work inspired in conception and spirited in performance, is art. As time goes by, I become ever more convinced that this vision contains the vision the seed of cultural transformation of considerable magnitude.

           
   Even as the conventional notion of work was failing many, so too , the conventional career planning methodologies that had arised out of this conception were , for many, inadequate. Many people who were looking for more fulfilling work were completely turned off by the conventional career planning process . It isn’t hard to understand why. “vocational guidance” programs were originally designed to help employers “better fit” emplyees into positions within their organizational structures. They were never intended as a means of helping individuals realize their creative potential or achieve their own best work.

        
      Over the years, career planning and vocational guidance evolved, but this notion of “finding the fit” was carried over as an integral part of the conventional career planning theory. Programs cut from this cloth tended to reduce human beings to collections of personality traits or skills that could be matched with pre-existing job slots. They focused on developing ever more elaborate tests and measures to find the perfect fit. Yet no matter how logical and systematic these programs might have seemed , they often failed to reach people where they lived. Like painting by numbers or dating by computer, something seemed to be missing from these programs, the life of spontaneous engagement. The best fit model, after all, tends to view people as static, interchangeable parts in a grand machine, not as aliving, growing, and conscious beings.
           
   On the other hand, there were books, that while long on metaphysics and ideals, were short on the practical life of making things happen in the real world. People read these books but only get inspired for a short period of time..I know I was one of them.  We need a program that will speak to peoples hearts and souls, yet be practical enough to help them take definite action.

1)Spiritual

2)emphasis on service

3) freedom of choice

We must have the love to go for what we know is right, even if it means paying a price. We who love life must work with life for life, while celebrating the mystery that is life. In short, we must be actively engaged in making the world the best it can be, whle loving it exactly as it is.We must have the courage to reject the idea of settling for work that is self destructive to human ahppiness, or even indifferent to it. We must have the patience to view the movement toward life’s work as a lifelong unfolding process , not something we can do in a week, a month, a year, or evern several years, but osmething tha ttakes a deep commitment and the patience to see through it.

             
 Those who take up their work as a creative pursuit, those who are really working from “the inside out”  in a spirit of service, need a wider range of alternatives than the conventional nine to five job format alone . These include starting your own business, working free-lance, and even preliminary information for starting a nonprofit organization.  Only when you do this will you truly work for the self as opposted to society. Once you do this everything shall come to you . Your hidden power will be realeased, do not follow what society tells you, don’t even follow what I tell you simply do what your heart wants the most. Don’t be scared , be daring . See yourself in the future and take baby steps to get there. I didn’t gain 80 lbs of pure muscle in a day. It took me 5 years to achieve it. Like everything else once you start doing what you love and are meant to be , life will be 100x more positive.