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The idea that the work might be fulfilling rather than painfully necessary is a strikingly recent invention. Open Doctor Johnson's celebrated dictionary published in 1755 and the word fulfillment doesn't even appear. Nowadays, in a prosperous world, we don't only expect money from our labor, we also to a greater or lesser extent, expect to find meaning and satisfaction, It's a big ask and helps explain why so many of us have career crises often in a Sunday evening as the sun begins to set. To help us on the quest for a fulfilling work, here are six useful ideas:
Firstly,accept that being confused about work is perfectly normal. In the pre-industrial world, there were at most some 2000 different trades out there. Nowadays, there are estimated to be half a million different options. The result: we can become so anxious about making the wrong choice, we end up making no choice at all. Psychologists call this the paradox of choice, paralysis (麻木，麻痹) stemming from too many options. We should acknowledge that confusion is natural and fear entirely normal. But let neither of these scupper（使成为泡影） our chances forever.
Secondly, know yourself. It's the oldest philosophical recommendation and it's particularly relevant to careers. For 99% of us, knowing what we want to do doesn't arise spontaneously （自然而然的）, like for example knowing what to eat. Most of us don't have a calling（使命）. We don't hear a commanding（指挥性的） god-like voice, directing us to an accountancy, packaging and distribution. That isn't to say we don't have taste or inclinations, we just don't know them clearly enough, which is a perilous position to be in as not having a plan quickly puts us at the mercy of those who do have one. We only catch glimpses, little hints our tastes so what we have to do is learn to pick up on their faint sounds. Start parking（停止，搁置） any concerns for money for a time. Financial panic too often kills all dialogue with more authentic passionate side of one's nature. Write down without being too logical or analytical about it. Everything you ever enjoy doing or making which might include building a tree house, or sorting out winter clothes, the weird the more off beat （离谱的） the list, the better. In the long and confused tangles that follow, there will somewhere be the shape of an ideal future working self. But it'll be very messed up in need of being analysed thoroughly. That's where philosophy comes in. Philosophy is the art of clearing up and demanding logic from our first thoughts.
Thirdly, think a lot. If it might take a couple of days even a week to choose a your car, it could fairly （公平的） take a year or more of a sustained reflection to start to identify a career that fits. We tend to feel guilty about this, imaging we'll be self-indulgent（自我溺爱）. Far from it, we may need to empty every weekend for months to sort out the biggest conundrum of our lives. To make sure we don't spend the rest of lives trapped in a job unwittingly chosen for us by an unknowing 16 year olds of our selves, we need to be properly generous about the amount of time we need to give this.
Fourthly, try something. It's tempting for us to imagine we'll be able to work out the shape of workplace and our own characters simply through a pure process of reflection but we need data. We can only understand ourselves and others by colliding with the real world in the process of getting to know both it and our own natures. We need to take small non-irrevocable（可撤回的） steps to gather information, for example by shadowing, interning or volunteering. We mustn't think we always have to resign on Monday. We can invest our futures through branching projects on the side of（在做...事情的间隙） existing jobs.
Five, reflect on what makes people unhappy. Every successful business is at heart an attempt to solve someone else's problem. The bigger or more urgent a problem, the greater the opportunity. To flex your entrepreneurship muscles, consider an average day and everything in it that might make someone unhappy, from losing house keys to finding the food little greasy, to arguing yet again with your spouse, each of these is a business opportunity waiting to be exploited. It's a chance for us to serve which is what work really is. It's easy to think everything is done and tried nonsense. We're unhappy enough for capitalism to have many more centuries of invention and creativity to it.
Six, be confident. so many bad self-helping books are about confidence. It can be tempting to dismiss （否定）the whole concept as nonsense. But in a peculiar and rather humbling way, it does seem as if the difference between success and failure is sometimes nothing less than the courage to give it a go，the ability to imagine oneself into a role, to surmise（猜测） one doesn't need to ask anyone for permission that many of the top positions simply belong to those who dare to boldly ask for them. A lack of confidence is at heart a misunderstanding of how the world works. It's an internalized feudalism which imagines that only certain people but not oneself have the right, preordained（命里注定的） to get certain things. It's not true. As we know, a lot more is possible than we might think at our moments of timidity and doubt. That's the start of a path towards a job we won't regret on our death bed, which should always be the ultimate criterion.
Summary
This article is about a common conundrum troubling most of people in the modern world. We want fulfillment from our jobs besides money. But how to find a fulfilling job? The speaker gives six opinions. First, to accept the confusion about work is perfectly normal. Second, to know yourself by doing a small exercise that you write down everything you enjoy doing. Thirdly, to think a lot. Don't dare to spend longer time on thinking and analyzing and sorting things out. Fourthly, to try shadowing, interning or volunteering. Fifthly, to reflect on what makes people unhappy, which is at heart the success of any business. Six, to be confident because it is humbling to think only a certain people not yourself have the preordained right to get certain things.
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The school of life发布的How to find a fulfilling job.
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