"Ever feel like work requires you to stifle your personal impulses,
goals, interests, desires? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that work
must be all wood nymphs and light. But when work impedes, rather than
supports your goals, it’s time to shake things up, to look around, to
take inventory and take charge. I had a successful job;
some might call it a career, even. I was monogamously employed for
going on eight years, my entire adult-post-education-life."
If you’ve wondered how to go about pursuing work you’ll love, get comfy and sink into this deliciously fun and creative account Melea Seward wrote for SuperViva: Unemployment RULES. Her journey has led her to a Performance of a Lifetime - literally!
Please share stories of your own experiments here!
Inspired by Melea’s article, I’ve decided to spice up my life by following an impulse every day. Well, honestly I don’t have to try to do that. But it’s kind of fun to have this be an explicit goal.
This morning I was passing a crew of 5 constructions workers who were setting up one of those lit up >>> signs that tell you a lane is closed. At first the sign transfixed me, as for the first time I noticed how, up close, they look like a giant Lite Brite screen
They all smiled. I didn’t know if it was in confusion or in trying to process what I’d said. Of course they all looked very cute in that way that construction workers do. And I kept walking. Half a block later one of them drove up next to me and I turned. He was still smiling and I smiled and kept walking.
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