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On Finding a job that fulfills your life Purpose

By: Kali Alaia ( Christel Pay Seng)

At the age of 28,  I still have not given up on my dreams- the dream is simple- to find a job that will allow me to meet a lot of people, a job that will allow me to help people think more positively, a job that will allow me to relate and connect deeply- a job that I know will be giving real service to those who need it the most- a job that is both spiritual-- a job that I can be proud of.

Most of the time, the common advise is, get a corporate job- do something you hate first and hope that one day you will be able to earn enough money to do what you want- that is the saddest thing to hear- but you cannot help but be logical in this dimension- in this world.



But what if you have been awakened already and you know that a job- or the job that you should be doing, must be something that fulfills your soul- the job is not necessarily easy- for nothing is, but it should be something that allows you to connect and feel others.

To be honest, I don't have a regular job that allows me to gain access to a steady pay. There are hundreds of jobs that will allow you to get a steady pay but it does not mean that your mind will still grow as you go- most of these jobs will drain the life out of you.

 I have chosen to be this way for 7 years in the hopes that I would be able to transform  my journey into something else, and this had led me to meet so many interesting people in my life. People that you would not normally meet in the usual path, but it does not mean that it was an easy path.

Can you find fulfilling work in doing a job that you cannot connect with?

This is the question for a lot of millennials nowadays, many find it hard to get trapped inside an office where they can hardly relate with their co-workers, where they need to work in their desks, no matter how boring that desk is and hope that their access to Starbucks gives them a bit of relief-

Because  many people give up pursuing what they have always wanted to do in life- for the sake of security- and for the sake of settling--

Should I go into this mindset and accept that I will just be a mindless robot, working for a job I hate and cannot connect with to pursue cash, to buy products that will mean nothing to  me in 10 years time?

We are all looking for a job that will fulfill our soul whether we are aware of it or not, this is the reason why many are desperate, and many remain traveling the world for reasons unknown--it is the search for quality jobs that mean something to us, that allows us to relate- that allows us to create.

I have been fervently praying for a job that will allow me to reach more people- through my writing. At times, a lot of dreamers like us have to settle for some time, until we gain ground but we will continue to seek for our purpose in life.

All will be revealed in the right time.

Finding a Balance:

There is really no such a thing as  a form of a useless job, or a job that is without meaning, rather it is the creativity that  you put into it and the goals you want to achieve in the long run that will align with you.

In order to find a job that means something to you, you need to learn to be grateful first for what has been given and to be really good at something that you are doing no matter what that is-- if the quality of work is done out of love and respect then no job will  look or feel trouble for you.

You just have to learn to love what you have and to understand how this job can help integrate and help more people into  your life.
It has always been hard for me to enter the corporate job, thinking that it is in contradiction of my free way of living, but is it?
or are my perspectives falling short for what has been trained and ingrained on me by the free living way of life. there must be a balance an direction for which all of this will fall.

The mission and life purpose can be created by you, but with the guidance of the Divine. You need to start meditating and praying for guidance on where you have to be in the next 10 years.

If you are finding it hard to wake up in the morning, you are confused where to go and who to be, because of the lack of solid grounding, trust in the Divine.

State a prayer for focus and clarity--and daily guidance will be there- you will fee a lightening up of the mood that will help you carry on through life.

We at times don't really have any idea where we are meant to be placed, we are tasked to find it, and asking for guidance will go a long way. This guidance is an inner conviction that is not pushed to us by other people's perspectives, but rather it must be something that must come inside of us.

Finding our life purpose will soon be on hand when this clarity arrives.



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