Have you ever lost your passion for your job/career?

[Mickey36]

Make up for it in other avenues of life. A job is just a stepping stone to where you eventually want to be. If you have stopped growing in your current position, then look for another that utilizes the same skill set but that you can continue to grow. Sometimes you even have to take few steps back in order to go forward. Good luck.

 

[jh1]

I love my job, becoming a firefighter is the best thing I ever did. Sure, we dont get paid alot, but my schedule is 1 day on/2 days off, then usually once a month I get a stretch of 5 days off in a row. I work like 100 days out of the year. With all the time off it's allowed me to start my own business on the side w/out worrying about starving or how i'll pay my bills if it does not take off fast enough. My benefits rock, retirement and pention is good, and it's a job I know I'll always have no matter what happens in the economy. I dont see how you could get burned out doing it, I play video games there, lift weights, eat, eat, and eat. It's the perfect job for a bodybuilder. Sure, there are some parts of the job that suck, but what I luv the most about it, you'll just be sitting there chilling and all of a sudden the tone goes off for a structure fire. My adrenaline gets going everytime!!!

That's a really interesting post.

You got mail.

 

[Castro_bigdog]

It sucks...I keep fighting it...but i think deep down i'm at that point. i never intended this to my career for life, just enough to make alot of money and invest it in other businesses.

maybe it's because i'm not doing as well as i used to, or i'm not as busy. hard to say. I dont have the amount of responsibility im used to...which may be a reason.

it's a little scary..especially since i know my business in and out and i enjoy many aspects of it, but i feel like it's all i know (even though its really not).

for anyone who's got burned out, what did you do?

i really wish the stuff i enjoy deep down was profitable...or wasn't insanely difficult to succeed/get your foot in the door.

I cant stand my job sometimes but I love my job so it is weird ...... But Oh Well

 

[calveless wonder]

I've honestly been waiting for this from you.

yeah? what made you say that?

i love the business in alot of senses, but other aspects i loathe. i just hate originating and prospecting. the company i work with is very relationship building oriented, as opposed to a boiler room/chop shop or purchased lead shop. so hopefully its a good influence

i miss being a sales manager/office manager and focusing on marketing. don't really have the capital or investors for that right now ...i guess it has alot to do with it. All the shit i hated to do or wasn't good at, i would just delegate to other people. don't have the luxury for that, and it's drained me.

on top of that i have lost SOOOO much money to bullshit recently. losing deals is always going to happen, but i swear i've never lost deals to such weird and fucked up circumstnaces than i have the past 5-6 months.

 

[jnevin]

yeah? what made you say that?

i love the business in alot of senses, but other aspects i loathe. i just hate originating and prospecting. the company i work with is very relationship building oriented, as opposed to a boiler room/chop shop or purchased lead shop. so hopefully its a good influence

i miss being a sales manager/office manager and focusing on marketing. don't really have the capital or investors for that right now ...i guess it has alot to do with it. All the shit i hated to do or wasn't good at, i would just delegate to other people. don't have the luxury for that, and it's drained me.

on top of that i have lost SOOOO much money to bullshit recently. losing deals is always going to happen, but i swear i've never lost deals to such weird and fucked up circumstnaces than i have the past 5-6 months.

It just seems like you've been really down and frustrated with it and knowing the part of the bidness you come from, it can only get worse.

 

[calveless wonder]

Oh Yeah.


x 10


I was insanely pasionate about what I did, seems like the industry swept me up and I was in a whirlwind for years on end..... I was the darling guru from 18-24 y/o....

I was so fuggin burnt out it wasn't funny. I had built up everything I needed for 4 years after that I rested on my laurels and rode the wave.... I partied night and day... you know that part of the story. I burnt out on that eventually too, obviously. As is my personality I put to much into it too fast and crashed/burned.

My mind is back in the work end of things to a degree but not like when I was younger. Now all I do is look for 'MY' angle to allow the work I do to finance something much larger... either that or help take a company to an IPO and clean up.

We'll see.

interesting...we're very similiar.i got into the mortgage biz at 20....and just ran with it. by 22 i was a sales manager, and by 23 i ran my own branch...but i still never was completely successful. i was highly recruited by alot of people, but because of immaturity i still havent hit it "big" like i wan to.

after i parted ways with my investors of my branch, i became kinda lost. doing a loan here and there, pay bills, no real support system. just me...

i'm definetely in that "party mode" right now. i spent so much time in my career and girl that i ignored everything else. in fact, my career was almost 100% motivated by the fact i wanted to support my girl and give us a great lifestyle. i feel like now i need to make up for lost time.
the difference between us....my finances are unstable because i lost ALot of my own money investing in my office, and i've had a shitty year this year production wise...so i can't really afford to go in a long hiatus

great idea about the angle....just cater whatever you're comfortable with,, and use it to propel whatever you want to do on a grand scale. thats also my goal.

with 50k, i could open up another small office..and do what i like. be an entrepeneur and just oversee things while delegating most of the responsibilities to my trusted employees.

 

[CrazyRussian]

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-sports related stuff (very passionate, but very hard to break into)
-psychology (can not the lifestyle i would , and would have to go back to school)
-fitness (had my stint as a personal trainer. shitty job really, just sales for fitness. people don't take it seriously enough, etc).

Hey just like me. I love psychology but I guess it isn't a very lucrative career. Still though, what I'm gonna try to do is mix the shit I like in with what makes the most sense financially. For example, be part of marketing or sales or something like that in a firm so I can do serious work but also be involved with some psychological aspects of the job

 

[dead_reggin_storage_fashi]

if you lost your gig today I mean right now. what would you do?

 

[jnevin]

if you lost your gig today I mean right now. what would you do?

Move to Panama and sell real estate.

 

[dead_reggin_storage_fashi]

^^I would dine and dash at cheesecake factory to show those fuckers it is just one 2 steps above Denny's and then become a flight attendent