Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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The Meaning of Work
Kevin Salwen of Worthwhile magazine highlights a Wall Street Journal article on job fulfillment and how an increasing number of lawyers are less prepared to stick with a job that's unfulfilling, or to climb the corporate ladder just for the sake of the money.
As Kevin says, the term 'success' is being redefined.
It's a good question, why should anyone stick with an occupation that they don't enjoy, never mind love? What's with giving so much of our waking life to a job or career that sucks? Money may be helpful, but there are as many ways of making it as there are seconds in the day. I chose out of the corporate structure myself sixteen years ago, handed back the large company car, relinquished the executive salary to study for three years to retrain as a practitioner of the Alexander Technique and to help people with posture related problems. I've never looked back.
It's easy to feel trapped in a situation. With the high earnings comes the lifestyle, and to maintain the lifestyle that we've become accustomed to we need the high earnings and more....and more. Because the material pleasures don't last that long....about a month or two before the 'newness' and novelty wears off and we need the next latest gizmo to satisfy the craving. Then there is how others perceive us and the 'need' we have to be seen climbing the corporate/social ladder.... but for what? The material gains satisfy us on such a low and superficial level.
