How to find a job you’ll like

I’ve labored at Quick Firm for greater than a decade. My colleague Lydia Dishman, one of many different authors of Work Smarter, has been right here for greater than 15 years. In a profession panorama the place many switch jobs every few years, clearly we’ve discovered one thing about our jobs that has made us keep.

For many people, discovering a “good job” could be a lifelong pursuit. At its most elementary degree, a good job should provide economic security, economic mobility, and equity, respect, and voice. However dig a bit of deeper and what these issues imply for people will be totally different relying in your circumstances and character.

Flexibility

Earlier in my profession, I spent a number of years freelancing, however the fixed hustle (and chasing invoices) wasn’t for me. However for the 6.7 million freelancers working within the U.S. at present (64% of whom are full-time), freelancing affords flexibility, selection, and management that conventional salaried employment doesn’t. Brian Honigman has been a full-time freelancer for a decade and provided some great advice for these fascinated with freelancing—together with discovering your area of interest, prioritizing what brings you pleasure, and never saying sure to each job supply (which will be robust within the hustle to create your personal wage).

If, like me, freelance isn’t for you, however—additionally like me—you worth flexibility, a big a part of being comfortable at work might be discovering a job that doesn’t require you to be within the workplace eight to 9 hours a day, 5 days per week. Author Michael Grothaus collected the best flexible jobs in America proper now that each allow you to work remotely (at the least among the time) and nonetheless pay properly. 

Pay

Flexibility and placement are extremely dependent in your character and life circumstances. However one facet of job is fairly common: good pay. The perfect jobs supply each, however particularly if you find yourself early in your profession, discovering a career path or company that pays well is a vital first stepping stone.

Firm Tradition 

Even a well-paid versatile job will be depressing in case you don’t just like the individuals you’re employed with otherwise you don’t discover your work significant. It may be tough to figure out if you’ll like a workplace before you start, however indicator is corporate opinions, and this list of 20 companies are the most highly ranked by employees.

Finally, happiness at work, like happiness in life, is complicated. As Quick Firm contributor Tracy Brower explains: 

Whether or not it’s the kind of work you do, the hours you’re employed, or the group you’re employed for, each alternative is a set of circumstances. Some might be terrific and others, not a lot. Your greatest wager is to determine what you like to do after which get as a lot alignment as potential between what you get pleasure from and what you could do. The overlap received’t be good, however extra alignment will grant you larger pleasure in your job.