Work You Love v. Work You Hate

Lately, I have stumbled upon a person discovery... The exact idea of what creates the battle between "work you love" and "work you hate". You should think of the definition of the word "work" in this example as the following: some hard task or series of tasks to be completed for an employer for 40 or more hours a week.

It is easiest for me to start with what defines "work you hate".

Work one hates is usually something like this... You do everything you can in attempts to make your employer happy with your performance but you just cannot force yourself to enjoy all of it because it does not provide any steps toward your future goals. This means, it is a job which holds a place in time where you need to be working but cannot find a position in your field of work. This sort of job is fulfilling- mostly mentally. Another type of job with fits into this category is the job you would like to enjoy but cannot because of a cruel and unjust boss.

Onto the next thing... "work you love".

Work you love usually can be figured out with a simple formula:

Nice Boss + Well Explained Training/ Duties + Decent Pay/ Hours + In Your Field = Love

This is the more perfect version of the work one loves. The more difficult love comes from jobs in a field you love that are made more challenging because maybe you're not trained down to every detail and eccentricity of your boss, or that maybe your hours are the best. (Personally, I am in the more imperfect of the situations because I am in a my pastry field, but my job is a little more difficult not because of the tasks I am given but because I am trying to learn all of the protocol and pet peeves of my bosses.)

I have been thinking much about this dichotomy because I recently got a second job and I cannot help but compare it to the other time- some months ago- when I also worked two jobs- when I held one job I hated and one I loved. But, all in all, even these bad experiences teach us something and, in the end, everything is good... even the not so good things and events.