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If your work feels like a grind, you are doing it all wrong. The next question is what should you do.
Are you going to let me help you or are you goign to let this opportunity pass you by again?
Mary Fung
April 14, 2024
You might know this about me but I get bored easily.
It's no surprise I switch jobs like no tomorrow.
Let me take you back to my first job switch.
It was at PwC (accounting firm for those who don't know).
Hours were brutal.
Tax compliance season was B-O-R-I-N-G.
Doing the same thing over and over.
I don't know how anyone does it.
Kudos to them.
Same returns, slightly different numbers.
On repeat.
I was under the impression that this was the norm.
Like how you have to go through the boring to get to the fun consulting stuff.
Nope...
I see people levels above me doing the same thing I'm working on.
Should this be normal?
I think we talk about discipline because it feels tough to do. We’re doing the hard thing. We’re slogging through. But when we are at our best, we’re not slogging through. Great people are obsessed and they’re not slogging through. They are driven. They are motivated. They are deeply, deeply engaged. ...
If it starts to feel like a slog and you’re pushing yourself every day—I mean, we all have periods of that—but [do it] too long and that really becomes laborious. To me, it’s often a flag that perhaps you shouldn’t be in that area at all.
The moment I did not look forward to the next day for over a week
Was the day it was time to go.
I was not where I should be.
I should not have to force myself this much to be motivated to work.
I should not have to push myself to do what I find meaningless.
It is that day when I realized I can control my career.
And now, I am excited to wake up to work!
The hours fly by because of how entrenched I am in my work.
This feeling exist.
It is out there.
You just need to find it.
And I can help.
Only if you let me,
Mary F
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