Welcome to the What Drives You Podcast. I'm Kevin Miller. I produce this show to help us all

continually discover where we want to go, why, and how to best get there. All the while

enjoying the daily drive as much as the destinations

we want to reach.

In this episode, your daily environment and duties may be more important than the product and service you help offer in your work.

I have admittedly put my focus on the work we do in regards to the actual product and service that we help deliver.

I mean no matter what you do at the end of the day, at the end of the rope here is a product or service that's being sold

and to find fulfillment in your work, my experience is that product or a service that's being sold and to find fulfillment in your work my

experience is that it's of utmost importance that you resonate with and support that

end product or service? Or is it? I'm questioning a little bit because I find it hard to, as much as I find it hard

to justify not having respect for that ultimate thing that we provide, it's vitally important that our work environment and our actual roles and duties are

fulfilling to us.

So which is more important?

And as I think about it for myself, I can almost make an argument that the environment and the task are more

important than even the end product or service.

That is a new thought and revelation for me.

So drive with me a moment to ponder this together.

So a couple episodes ago, we had a long show with Dr. Tessa West, professor of psychology at New York University and it was around her new book

which is titled job therapy finding work that works for you and she talked about our

relationship with work kind of like a relationship with our marriage.

In that, one of the lines that I pulled out, she said, I discovered that the things that

make people unhappy at work are often small and forgettable, but they add up over time.

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