Most people want to do their lifes work. Some people are able to separate work completely from life and be happy doing anything, but this is not the norm. I once knew a man who managed things for a living. Hed managed a restaurant for several years, seen an ad in the paper, and become manager of a print shop. He didnt particularly like the job, but he didnt hate it.

And I will never forget what he said, when trying to convince me I could do a better job with my attitude. Its just a job. Its not your life. You have a job so you can afford to have a life when you go home. You come in here, you act like youre having a good time, you do the work, then you go home and play.

Well, that may have been fine for him, and I know other people who have their fulfillment outside their jobsfor instance, an apartment complex manager whose real passions are cooking and gardening. She likes her job fine, shes been there 20 years, but its just a job.

I cant work at just a job for more than about six months before my head explodes. I dont know about you, but I have to have a job that means something to me. Ive gone through several businesses doing work that was important to me, and Ive finally found my lifes work in life coaching.

The first meaningful work you find may not be your life work, but I guarantee you that if youre doing work you dont find fulfilling, youre not getting closer to your lifes work. You get there only by trying on things that might be it and finding out theyre not. And working at the Post Office, while it pays well and has good security, is probably not on the track to the work you were born to do.

Take some chances. Take some jobs that feel right, even if theres a better job available. Start the journey to your lifes work and dont stop until you can say, This is the work I was born for.