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Do you see yourself in
one of these descriptions?
• Fully but unhappily employed
• Burned out in your present job or career
• Chronically underearning
• Chronically unemployed
• Seeking purposeful work that is connected to
your personal values and beliefs
Our mission
The Life’s Work Center helps people find more than just a job: right livelihood, their calling or sense of mission, a life’s work.
The LWC guides people unfulfilled by work in thoroughly defining the work they want to do, and supports them in finding a purposeful, meaningful working life. In doing so, the LWC goes to the root causes of many negative individual and societal consequences resulting from an unsatisfying work life (stress-related illness; reliance on alcohol, drugs, and “medicating” behaviors; depression; and obsession with material measures of happiness, to name only a few obvious ones).
Why we do what we do
If you define yourself as unhappily employed, you are probably enduring a level of stress and pressure that you are only partially aware of. Unconscious dissatisfaction with your work life may drive a need to escape the stress and imbalance in ways that can be detrimental—to you, your family, those around you, and your society. Do you find yourself coping with:
• A perpetual desire for more material goods, or compulsive spending?
• Money as the measure of all things?
• Chronic anxiety about money?
• Marital or family discord?
• A frenzied approach to leisure pursuits, as an escape from an unhappy work life?
• Chronic stress-related illnesses?
Or you may identify yourself as unable to find, or keep, work that affords you dignity, pride in purposeful accomplishment, and the feeling that you are contributing positively to solving problems for a world in need.
Perhaps you often discover a repeated mismatch between the skills you would like to use in a fulfilling work life and the type of work, and level of pay, you end up with. To compensate for underearning and the absence of rewarding work, you seek challenges and rewards on the fringe of your life, outside of work, and constantly feel that something is missing.
You may even be in a “successful” career, with a job and pay that others admire, but wondering, “Is this all there is?” |
