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I Like My Job, For the First Time
November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments
For the first time in my life I can say I truly and completely like my job. Especially, since I do not have a job!
I have worked since I was in high school (summers only then). I have help positions from mail clerk / mail-database programmer on a government bureaucracy to Principal Consultant for a huge software company. I always found something I didn’t like about my job – and most of the time I felt bored. Not necessarily bored because of lack of work to do (although it did happened frequently), but bored because what could be done was of no interest to me. The paycheck and the bills it paid kept me interested enough to do a good job at it, however.
The thing I love the most about my consulting practice is that I can decide what I want to do and how I want to do it. I can’t blame anyone for failure, but at the same time success is more in my control than ever. Sure, I am restricted as to what I can do by the functionality that my clients need me to build for them. The end result is defined by someone else. But the mechanics of the day to day work, as well as the decisions about what direction we want to follow are not taken by someone else who has no interest in my personal wellbeing – they are taking by the person who has the most interest: me.
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Hello. My name is Robert Ashford and I am working under contract to the financial advice network, The Motley Fool (http://www.fool.com/). I am currently tasked with promoting their UK operation, http://www.fool.co.uk/. Specifically, I am attempting to increase the traffic on the subpage, http://www.fool.co.uk/credit-cards/credit-cards-comparison.aspx. To that end, would you be interested in placing a link to the aforementioned page on your blog, http://http://www.moneyandinvesting.net/ or on any other site under your control in exchange for compensation? Please respond at your convenience.
Thank you,
Robert
Jose,
Congratulations on joining the full time entrepreneur ranks. From the career blog you posted articles to I could tell you were destined to do greater things. I’ll be adding a link to your blog here, from the “Trusted Network” section of my new premiere vlog called Who Knows You? http://youconnect.wordpress.com – I’ll also add your site to my wordpress watch list and my RSS reader.
Being one of those lazy [entrepreneurial] persons who has had no job for over 16 years, I am at your service should you require some business running advice. I would like to find out more about your consulting company so I can possible refer clients to you.
Buena Suerte!!
C. E. Reid
Chief Savvy Intrapreneur
http://www.SavvyIntrapreneur.com