Comments on: Are You Satisfied With Your Job?

By: Emirates Jobs

Emirates Jobs — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:55:14 +0000

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By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:42:05 +0000

Yes, you have to be realistic about achieving your goals. Entrepreneurs have been around forever in fact commerce was started by them. Look for that trend to continue and indeed grow over the coming decades. thanks for the comments

By: King Sidharth

King Sidharth — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:25:13 +0000

Enterprising is the future for sure. Or maybe it is already the present, well that's how I feel. And good advice on not quitting your job yet Mostly coz of 2 reasons:
1. You need ter pay ur bills (as you mentioned)
2. and entrepreneurs start where they are be it a job or homeless' shelter.

Cheers to the awesome entrepreneurs we are!

By: First Mate YC

First Mate YC — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:47:51 +0000

Point taken. It is probably important to distinguish success and satisfaction. Two examples which immediately pop to mind are Paul Buchheit and Jon Rubinstein.

An interesting question to ask might be: If Steve Jobs greatest contributions to Apple have already been made, what could he accomplish in he took a position in another industry?

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:38:56 +0000

Srini, Wow! Thats awesome. Really happy for you. Great that you can do what you love and work on the other projects you have going as well. Looking for big things in 2010 from you…I appreciate the comments.

By: Srinivas Rao

Srinivas Rao — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:35:43 +0000

Hey Rich,

Your thoughts on this were probably the most useful thing I got out of our conversation. I do now have a job as a social media strategist at a travel company. What's interesting however is that it's 30 hrs a week, and gives me enough money to live, and the rest of the time to focus on entrepreneurship. So, I'm in a really fortunate position that I like my job, because I'm doing the things I do in my personal ventures in a corporate setting and I get to keep surfing just as much. Like you said, 2 steps back and 20 steps forward.

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:23:06 +0000

Potentially it is suspect and I agree that studies and finding can be manipulated however you want. It's interesting though that they have seen consistently lowering satisfaction ratings.

As for the ones most happy being the ones most likely to succeed, I would disagree with that point. I believe history clearly shows many of the best entrepreneurs have been ones who weren't content with where they were and had an idea to do something better/different. I think thats the essence of an entrepreneur. Steve Jobs – Apple, Jeff Bezos – Amazon, Phil Knight – Nike.

If I was tasked with finding the “next great” entrepreneur, Id be looking for someone who was discontent with their current job.

Thanks for the comments.

By: First Mate YC

First Mate YC — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:14:18 +0000

I wish there was an ungated version of the research paper, because I am not going to shell out $395 to read it. Happiness research is highly suspect in my book. None of their stories as to why job satisfaction has declined strike me as convincing.

Either way, I would think some of the people who are currently satisfied at their job, might also be the ones most likely to succeed as entrepreneurs. Perhaps the real challenge is convincing that 45% they could be even happier.