Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Passion and a Job

I have been thinking about this a lot today.  I have no real passion in my life.  I love my wife with passion.  My family is wonderful.  But I have no real passion for anything else.  Work is now a job.  I enjoy reading history and playing games on my computer.  Baseball and the boys sports are great fun.  But none of the that is something I would call a passion.  I am not sure if I have ever had a real passion.

I loved playing baseball as a kid up until high school.  I was not that good but I enjoyed playing.  I did not burn to be playing.  There was no passion to do it everyday. High school brought band and history.  Both were great fun and I put a lot into them both.  I again did not have enough talent for music and did not put the time into my writing to make history work.

I have enjoyed some part of all my jobs.  I really like talking and interacting with customers, guest, clients, etc but I am not a people person, just ask my friends.  I am a great problem solver and organizer.  I do well when writing out policies and procedures but it drives me nuts to do it.  I read  one of those find your perfect job books and it said find your passion.  Well that helped a lot. Okey it gave me the idea for this blog.

I think this may be the reason for part of my end of year blues.   Each year I get older and still no passion. The closest idea of passion I have is for politics but is that really a passion or just my liking to argue?  Oh well.  Any feed back would be helpful.