What if you were to create a pie chart of how you experience your job/ career? Isolate that particular hat for a moment. You probably wear a lot of hats: owner, family, employee, executive, perhaps others. Focus solely on the employee/ executive role. Consider a week, you have to bring in the weekends and evenings, to the extent you’re working or seriously thinking about work.
How do you experience your job? That is to say, how do you feel? And don’t just hop to how much you love your job overall. I used to love Arthur Andersen. I was proud of the firm and of being a partner in the firm. I could say I loved being a partner, loved my job. And a good deal of it was awful!
And you could also say something like: “Well, of course there is a lot of hard work. You have to take the good with the bad.” And so forth. That is answering a different question than the one I am asking. Consider a pie chart representing your experience of your job. That what we’re looking for.
