Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Friday morning.

If you're in work at the moment, I don't know how you view your work, whether your work

is something that's passion, something you feel really invested in or whether it's

something you simply do to earn a living, to pay your rent, to buy food, to do the other

things in life that you like to do.

Just recently I was chatting with a friend of mine and this is a conversation by the way

that has gone on for over 20 years just to be clear.

You know those conversations you have with friends where, you know, there's sort of a

reoccurring theme and for this particular friend, he's always been a little uncertain

I would say in his work.

You know he likes his work, at the same time the work that he does he doesn't necessarily

feel passionate about and so there's always been this tension in his life.

On the one hand there is this sort of career path, a company that looks after him well

that provides healthcare for his family and sort of the responsibilities that have grown

over the course of that career.

At the same time, it's not something you feel massively passionate about, it's not something

that gives him a huge sense of purpose and so there's always sort of this tension.

So whenever we sort of catch up it's like yeah I'm thinking of maybe changing jobs but

you know we're 20 years down the line now.

It may happen, it may not.

And I think that very often in life we don't have the luxury of choice, we find ourselves

in a situation where the work we have is the work we have and there's not necessarily

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