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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Why You Love Your Job

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

After a beautiful call from listener John yesterday during "What Are The Odds".

We want to know WHY is it you love your job?

Whether its because of a particular moment, a life changing event; or even just one special person who made a difference.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Christian.

0:01.0

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:04.0

I want to talk about something after a phone call we'd had yesterday.

0:08.0

It's an amazing phone call, which are going to replay in a minute.

0:10.0

But before that, the reason why I keep thinking about it is right now with my two teenage daughters.

0:15.0

They're teenagers, 17, almost 18 and 19, almost 20.

0:19.0

So very, very big years for them and at the moment the number one thing

0:23.3

they're talking about thinking about and going over and over again is like what are they going to do

0:28.5

for a job in their life right and it's almost it's actually almost too big a question so overwhelming

0:33.8

because they think there's one decision and once you get it right and the pressure

0:39.2

to get it right and also years ago we didn't have Instagram where ever especially if it's

0:43.8

anything like my feed where it's every other video about meaning purpose take my course

0:49.6

unlock meaning purpose 10x meaning productivity purpose was like meaning, purpose.

0:56.4

And so, someone's going, is this my meaning? Am I purpose?

1:00.2

And so for then it's overwhelming because everyone on their social feeds on TikTok and Instagram is meaning, purpose.

1:06.8

And so right now they're like, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

1:09.8

It's like, it's a crippling question.

1:12.2

So they keep thinking about it.

1:13.2

And yesterday we get a phone call from John.

1:15.1

So we were doing the phone in, what are the odds?

1:17.2

Well, we love every week, ask you the question, what are the odds?

1:20.1

And we look for stories about coincidence and chance.

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