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Work With Meaning: Paychecks and Life Purpose Laura Parrino Byxbe, CPC Job Search and Career Transition Trainer, Life Purpose Coach 414.737.1296

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Work With Meaning: Paychecks and Life Purpose

Laura Parrino Byxbe, CPC

Job Search and Career Transition Trainer, Life Purpose Coach

414.737.1296

Inspiration Your work is to discover your work and

then with all your heart to give yourself to it…Buddha.

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love…Marysarah Quinn

Mid Life Crisis Time is running out… Why am I here? What will I do with the rest of my life? What does it all mean?

What do I want… Job… Career…. Calling…

Introductions My name is… Why I’m here tonight… My current employment situation… In my heart I secretly long to…

Choices about work… Making a living and having a financial plan to

take care of our dependents is part of life. But we must be certain to recognize the difference between authentic sacrifice and self-imposed masochism. The ultimate gift that adults pass on to the young, is a sense of values. And the primary value in life is not in the things we buy with the money we earn; the primary value in life is in living life fully.”………Mathew Fox

New Attitude Towards Today’s Job Market Attitude is everything – employers are

sensitive to how you are dealing with the world today…not the world you wish existed

Every job you get is temporary Every job is a seminar Every job is an adventure

New Attitude Every job you get is one where the satisfaction

must lie in the work itself…. Get pleasure from what you do because you use

the skills you most love to use, in the field you most love to work in, toward those goals you would most love to accomplish, knowing that God knows what an asset you are to that place, even when your employers don’t

Stay on Track 95% of the most common occupations five

years from now have not been thought of Amount of change that will happen

between 2000-2020 will be equal to the change from 1900-2000.

Constantly expand your skills so you can continually adapt to the every-changing marketplace

Do What You Love…. Getting Rich Your Own Way – Srully

Blotnick research project – 1982 1500 people – Group A – 83% of sample-

career chosen for making money now in order to do what they love later

Group B – 17% of sample - chose their career based on what they wanted to do now, and worry about the money later

Do What You Love… In 20 years – 101 of the 1500 became millionaires… All but 1 came from Group B!

New Adult Life Span Advances in healthcare, globalization and

technology have altered our world We are maturing earlier and living longer Multiple adulthoods instead of just one! Transitions occur because of loss and

change This is your chance to start over

Age has not always been tracked… Age was viewed as roles in life Half way point – 3 score and ten “Life is harder than they told us it would

be.”

Five Stages of the Soul The Call The Search The Struggle The Breakthrough The Return

Skills +Passion = Strength!

Skills Passions/Interests Job Marketplace The difference between a waitress whose

job is a passion vs. a paycheck

What do I want? Job Career Calling

Steps to Finding Out What You Want to Do :1. An internal and spiritual process.2. Reflect on what has been - family life,

your job journey, peak moments3. Determine talents, skills, values4. Mission Statement - Determine your

Purpose. Once you have established your purpose, you will be able to develop projects that will take your dreams out of your imagination and make them part of your reality.

Steps to Finding… Flow! - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

What are some of the things that you do during which time stands still

Find your Passion! Acknowledge resistance

Steps to finding… Take action! Develop a plan Be careful who you share your dreams

with. You hear the word no at least144,000 times before you are 18.

“Those who abandon their dreams will discourage yours.”

Find a coach, mentor or success team.

Five Best Ways to Find a Job Asking for job leads – referrals ____% Knocking on the door____% By yourself, using the phone book yellow

pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you ____%

In a group with other job hunters____%

5 Best Ways to Find a Job The Creative Approach ____%

You decide exactly what you have to offer to the world

You decide just exactly where you want to use your skills

You go after the organizations that interest you the most, whether or not they are known to have a vacancy