How To Get A Job You Love

chapter 3

First steps towards a new career deal

‘I like work: it fascinates me.

I can sit and look at it for hours.’

Jerome K. Jerome (1889)

This chapter helps you to

• •understand more about happiness and role satisfaction;
• •think of work as a healthy, managed deal;
• •capture and communicate energy;
• •experiment with small steps and shift projects;
• •take an online questionnaire to help with the process of career change.

Revisiting happiness

Are some occupations more likely to increase happiness? We seem to have a fascination with the worst and the best jobs in society. Popularity contests are won by surprising jobs (statisticians and web designers, ...