If you graduated from high school at the age of 18, went to college and graduated in four years, then went out into the real world and got a real job working 40 hours a week and you worked forty-eight weeks a, took four weeks’ annual vacation (two weeks more than most people), and retired at the age of sixty-five, you will have worked 86,400 hours by the time you retire.

Give or take more education or less, working through lunch, working weekends, working overtime, considering more or less vacation, and I think it is safe to say you will work somewhere between 85,000-100,000 hours by the time you retire.

That’s a lot of life working.

Do you enjoy it?  Are you passionate about it?  Do you find your working meaningful?  Are you satisfied after a long day?

If not, what are you going to do about it?

Some might think I’m suggesting you jump ship and look for a new job tomorrow.  I’m not.  At least not for everyone.  However, if you have that opportunity, what’s holding you back from taking it?

The other option – bring passion to your work.  Discover meaning in what you do each day.  Learn to appreciate your work so you feel satisfied and content.

If you go home each night exhausted, angry, and complaining, do something different.  Quickly.  Those 100,000 hours go by way too fast.