Don't be ashamed to work in a coffee shop. I work as tech support and was a department store cashier for three years before this. Almost everyone I work with is much younger or a generation older. But, it's my day job. I come home and as I write I become myself again. You aren't your job.Some days it does hit me more. How little I have accomplished job/ career wise. But I'm not focused on that. I don't see a career as the best measure of success. How happy are you day to day? Are you doing things which make you happy?
Being happy with yourself and your life (your job is only part of your life), that is real success.
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I'm not satisfied with myself. Part of that problem is because I used to totally be my job. For the past 8 years that's all I've concentrated on. My job is fine, but I don't put it center of my life anymore. And so now I'm trying to fix the rest of me.
Your job definitely does not define you, or it shouldn't anyway. Mine certainly doesn't. I loathe mine. lol
There is nothing to be ashamed of by working in a coffee shop!
Dang, I wish we had a coffee shop in town!
I am unemployed right now, by choice and sometimes, I do feel embarrassed that I am not working, while friends my age are already holding high positions.
When I tell people that I want to do my own business and if I want to work with other people, it's going to be a small job that pays a little but makes me happy, they'd give me that look.
It's sad that some people define success by the position that we hold in the corporate world or by the 5 or 6 figure salary that we earn per month.
I guess, I must believe in myself and mix with people who believe in me. =)
I must say, I love my job as a translator and am always proud to say so when someone asks. I have in recent months got myself a couple of part-time day jobs (one as hotel reception clerk, the other as a retail clerk) to earn a minimum weekly salary to have some cash in hand, because most translation clients pay 30 days or more, and sometimes as long as 90 to 120 days. I tend to think my job defines me to a certain extent because I am somewhat of a language geek, or at least a semi-purist most of the time. :) (Note the tentative qualifiers...)
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