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The Honest Truth About the Working Work
7 Things to Know if You’re Just Starting Out
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
And I couldn’t agree more but how do you know what you love in work if you know absolutely nothing about the working world.
There is a Lack of Information
When I first started work there was nothing out there to tell me what to expect. For some reason, there is all the information in the world about what to expect when going travelling, an A-Z about trekking mountains or finding the person to spend your life with but when it comes to knowing about work and understanding the reality of work, there’s zilch.
Nothing that I could lean on to understand what my first days/months would be like. There was nowhere I could turn to get an understanding about what work entailed. I just completed some online tests, turned up to an interview, tried my best, got the job and then I was excited about the vague concept called work.
