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, the sort of words

of 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 he feels 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, 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.

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