Your weekly dose of Alluviance!
I think a lot of people are looking for the wrong thing in their career.
They say they want the dream job.
Better company. Better pay. Better title. Better product. Better logo in the LinkedIn headline.
And sure, some of that matters.
But I think the deeper question is:
What lights you up so much that you are willing to commit to mastery?
Because every job gets hard.
And when that moment comes, the external stuff won’t carry you very far.
The title won’t. The comp plan won’t. The dinner-party line of “I work at X” definitely won’t.
Eventually, you’re left with the actual work.
And that’s where you have to be honest.
Do I feel more alive inside this work, or more disconnected from myself?
That question matters. A lot.
One day you wake up with a “good job” and a tired soul.
I’ve learned this the long way. A few times.
For me, the problem is simple:
Too many high-performing people are winning on paper and quietly losing themselves.
Hitting the number and feeling empty. Getting promoted and feeling more anxious. Building the life they thought they wanted and wondering why it still doesn’t feel like home.
That problem has my heart.
So maybe the better career question is not:
“What’s my dream job?”
Maybe it’s:
“What craft am I willing to dedicate myself to mastering?”
Because a commitment to the path of mastery will grow you.
It will expose you.
It will ask for more honesty than you planned on giving.
And if you let it, your career becomes something much deeper than a ladder.
It becomes a dojo.
A place where you practice becoming the person your soul is asking you to become.
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