What If I Never Feel Satisfied and Still Want More?
Managing another goal after just achieving one, when will it end?
My list of friends that just started their successful corporate careers already feel “over’ it, is honestly endless. The amount of time millennials spends working in the corporate world before they get bored and want a career change keeps getting shorter.
I am sitting in a parked car at 2 am with my life-long friend who is in town visiting and she randomly asked,
“How do I choose what to do about this career-changing decision and is this venture worth the money and risk? I don’t truly feel passionate about this new goal but I want the additional salary income, will the money justify the stress and time it consumes? My biggest fear is never feeling satisfied with my career.”
But what if never feeling completely satisfied and always chasing after the next big achievement isn’t a bad thing? Not everyone feels satisfied after working a 9–5 job, even if their salary is above six figures.
Just because right now you fear you may never be satisfied with your future achievements, doesn’t mean you won’t be. It’s hard to take advice from the generation before us because the professional atmosphere between the two generations isn’t comparable. Today, we have everything at our fingertips and the ability to make decisions at the click of a button. We have the power to build our own companies, run e-commerce empires, and become CEO’s before we even earn a degree.
When do we take a step back and say enough is enough before the pressure drives our sanity into a black hole of unaccomplished dreams? Well, for now, I just say take it one day, one president, and one goal at a time. You probably won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, or Evan Spiegel of the world, but it’s sure as hell great motivation to keep working toward it.
The pandemic pushes everything into perspective and can make us over-analyze our current position and future path. Not all of us have a 10-year plan of where we want to be, I myself don’t want one and that’s okay.
For the unsatisfied, resilient, and hard-working individuals out there, here is the best advice I can give you. Take a step back to breathe, polish your trophies, and just laugh at the memes.
