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Is Your Career Destroying Your Life?
The four rules of creating a lifestyle instead of a career
You were programmed to be an unhappy adult beginning the first day of your first school. Everything you were taught by those well-meaning teachers were subtle hints and guides projected towards you, the bright new child in class, to begin the process of deciding a career track the would serve you for life.
As your progressed in school, you became channeled into tracks of study preparing you for college education, where you lock in to a specific path, supposedly preparing you for the next fifty or more working years the average adult now endures.
You show an aptitude for math in high school, end up studying accounting, graduate and enter a firm at an entry level, and now you wade up stream for the next few decades rising in the company, or maybe starting your own gig… but you trained for a career and you are expected to stay within that career for life.
Then maybe, if you are lucky and there is anything left of you, you find a lifestyle outside of work. Maybe a few ski trips a year, or a week in Miami now and then.
You have a few kids, settle into a house in a nice neighborhood near the company you work for, because by now we have all gone back to the office, and everything you want…
