Business is Fun

Isn't business fun? If it's not, you're probably in the wrong one (business that is). I find people have fun in their businesses for different reasons: one enjoys the battle for new clients; another enjoys the time he gets to spend with customers, yet another gets an ego boost from being recognized in public. All different, yet all the same.

I suppose for younger folks, work is all about survival and accumulation. As one gets a bit longer in the tooth, the challenge and rewards morph into something different (in my mind, something better).

There is satisfaction in the work itself. I smile when I write something clever or playback a voicetrack that nails what I am trying to accomplish, or, now, when an interview goes really well on www.talkshoe.com/tc/43512 .The money is nice, make no mistake about that, but that special feeling tells me I'd do this even if I won that big lottery (of course, I'd have to play to win...wouldn't I?).

A friend's father was a physician of some reputation. In college, my friend pursued medicine for a few years, then went to his father to apologize for deciding medicine was not the career he wanted. No one was more surprised than my friend when his successful father replied, "Don't make the mistake I made, do what you enjoy."

I hope everyone not only enjoys his/her labor, but finds it satisfying and fun.