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The Art of Charm

Fan Mail Friday #55 | Fear of a Millennial Planet

The Art of Charm

http://www.TheArtOfCharm.com

Business, Health & Fitness, Education

4.711K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Time for Fan Mail Fridays, where we'll be answering your questions and dropping some knowledge and feedback to help you kick the weekend off right. If you're new to The Art of Charm Podcast, this isn't a great place to start. Most of our content is more in-depth and longer format, so check out our Best Of picks or the Fundamentals Toolbox episodes. There, we've got the fundamentals of body language and nonverbal communication, attraction, negotiation, networking, and everything else we teach here at The Art of Charm. We'll send all of this to your inbox if you text CHARMED to 33444. And if you want to ask us a question by phone to possibly be featured in a future Fan Mail Friday, drop us a line at (415) 429-1915! In this episode: Should you be content with a so-called "good" career at a good company and stop complaining just because you're not using the skills and natural talents that make you feel alive? Do millennials really deserve most of the bashing they get from their supposedly wiser elders? As discussed recently with Gary Vaynerchuk, negative first impressions aren't set in stone. Just because someone doesn't like you now doesn't mean they won't warm up to you later. Do you ever worry if constantly doing the "right" thing is holding you back from experiencing life fully? What do you do when you don't drink, but all the dating advice you get tells you bars are the best place to meet new people? How do you not look like "the gay guy" when you're out on the town with a group of five or six women? Should an Army officer consider investing time in an advanced degree? Listener Xavier calls in [as you can too at (415) 429-1915!] and gives us some excellent advice and useful tools for people moving to a new town. Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at [email protected] or even, thanks to our friends at Burner App, leave us a voicemail or text at (415) 429-1915! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/fan-mail-friday-55-fear-of-a-millennial-planet/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, time for fan mail Fridays. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. I'm here with my producer, Jason to Philipo.

0:05.5

We'll be answering your questions and dropping some knowledge and feedback to help you kick the weekend off, right?

0:10.0

Anyway, if you're new to the Art of Charm Podcast, this isn't a great place to start. Most of our content is more in-depth than longer formats.

0:16.0

So check out the best of at the Art of Charm.com slash best or the fundamentals toolbox at the Art of Charm.com slash toolbox.

0:23.5

That's where we've got the fundamentals of body language, nonverbal communication,

0:27.5

negotiation, attraction, networking, everything else we teach here at the Art of Charm. We'll send all this to your inbox if you text Charm that's CHARMED to 3-3-4-4.

0:38.5

All right, let's cut to it.

0:40.5

I've been in my professional career for about seven years and have been really miserable for about 90% of it.

0:45.5

I have a quote-unquote good job and it pays fairly well, but I don't feel like I'm using all of the skills and natural talents that make me feel alive.

0:53.5

And I really am not in love with doing personal finance. I'd love to hear your take on whether I should pursue a job that I love or if that's even a thing.

1:01.5

Should I be happy with a good career at a good company and just stop complaining?

1:05.5

The company I work for now is a solid company. They give me a great amount of vacation time and there's growth potential over time.

1:12.5

But I find the field very dry and boring and I struggle getting into the content, not to mention doing the full suit and tie every single day thing and being tied to a desk.

1:21.5

Except for my lunch and bathroom break. I'm turning 30 tomorrow and I feel like I'm on the cusp of getting pigeonholed in a career that makes me miserable.

1:30.5

Any thoughts would be helpful. Either way, keep doing what you're doing. You deserve all the success in the world for sharing this content.

1:36.5

You are one hell of an interviewer which takes skill and experience and is greatly underappreciated. Steve.

1:43.5

Hey, Steve, you know, this is kind of the, this is kind of a dilemma that I see a lot especially among my friends who joined Wall Street really early on.

1:51.5

I think a lot of people who do quote unquote the right thing, get the professional job, get the good pay. We get handcuffed to it and we call this the golden handcuffs on Wall Street because you get a lot of nice toys and a lot of nice comfort.

2:04.5

But honestly, I think most people do not actually have jobs that they love and yes, it is a thing. A lot of people love their work.

2:12.5

I love my work and a lot of people listening will view me as an exception because I run my own business and I'm doing this sort of creative entertainment type of thing here with the show.

2:22.5

But most people that I know that are really happy actually really enjoy what they do even if they get paid a little bit less.

2:29.5

So yeah, you work for a solid company. They give you a great amount of vacation time, but that's that's a red flag for me because what I'm hearing is, well, I don't have to go to work as much as other people do because they let me out of a cage a lot.

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