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I often hear from my customers that the most important thing about a job is that it’s fun. Is fun a meaningful category for assessing a job? Wouldn’t terms like satisfaction or fulfilment be more appropriate? Or is this all just meaningless quibbling? I think that our choice of words has a lot of influence on whether we are satisfied with a professional situation or not.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter N\u00e4f<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nZurich, April 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

Most people will agree that work should also be enjoyable – after all, nobody wants it to be a burden, although unfortunately many people do. At first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with the term \u00abfun\u00bb and if fun were the only requirement of a job, I would have no objection to it.<\/p>\n

However, most people equally want to be able to develop in their job and do something meaningful. But most development takes place during a crisis: We come across a problem that we can-not overcome with our previous solution strategies. When working together, we may be con-fronted with people with whom we cannot get along. In this respect, even the diversity<\/a> that is rightly demanded to achieve above-average performance is not pure joy.<\/p>\n

We don’t grow in the comfort zone<\/h5>\n

And so, the fun ends in everyday working life and we are forced to leave our comfort zone. I assume that people have a natural drive to learn and develop. And that is often exhausting: if we want to grow, we must jump over hurdles, question ourselves and endure uncertainty; all things we would not consciously choose to do.<\/p>\n

Professional satisfaction is realistic<\/h5>\n

I describe myself as very satisfied with my career. I also experience fun in my day-to-day work – more and more frequently over the years. This happens, among other things, when I get on well with my coachees and the collaboration runs smoothly – coaching then feels like dancing. However, I have learnt the most from my coachees, with whom the collaboration was exhausting, sometimes even frustrating. This was and is an ongoing investment.<\/p>\n

In addition to consulting, there are also tasks in my company that I would not do voluntarily: I must take care of the IT, get the printer that is on strike up and running, do the bookkeeping, settle the VAT, optimise processes, etc. But there is one thing I have learnt in the process: if I dedicate myself to something with full concentration, I enjoy doing it over time. Enjoying work therefore also has to do with personal attitude, possibly even with working technique.<\/p>\n

The same applies in our leisure time: when we enjoy skiing today, we have forgotten how difficult it was to learn when we were young. But back then we probably didn’t expect life to be fun.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, based on these considerations, we would be better off saying: \u00abMy job has to be fun from time to time.\u00bb And – isn’t that a bit of wordplay? I don’t think so, because: Words create expectations. And unrealistic expectations are poison for a fulfilling career.<\/p>\n

#career<\/a> #strategiccareerdesign<\/a> #personalbranding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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