Motivation To Do 9-5 Job When It's Unrelated To Your Life Purpose

[DaveB]

I'm doing Leo's LP course and i'm not finished yet , but I'm pretty sure I want to be an Artis . Specificaly a Digital Artis , drawing with tablet on computer . My skillset is far away from to be profession and to be able to make money with it , but that's ok , I know that skill gets better in few years , if I practise daily and consistently . 

 What to do in meanwhile ?The thing is , I miss my Career call , instead of art school I finished Universisy Masters in Human Resource Management . I don't see any future in that field for me , I work usually one or two months in this 9-5 corporate jobs then they fire me or I leave myself , currently i'm unemployed at home rather drawing with no motivation to even look for another meaningless 9-5 job and money slowly fades away,which makes me stressful.

 The Questions are: 

Where to find motivation to do 9-5 job when it's unrelated to your life purpose ?

What are the best jobs for smooth career transition? 

 I don't understand how I'm supposed to implement my life purpose while I'm working a 9-5 job ? 

Thank you for your answers .

PS: Sorry for my English , I'm not English native speaker

[Wouter]

I would suggest finding a halftime job in your field that doesn't take too much energy, being very stingy with your money, figuring how exact you want and can impact the world and then 4h/day work also on that, until you can make money from it.

[Nahm]

@DaveB you could be changing lives in a positive encouraging manor in your human resource position and doing your art program in your other-than-9-5 time. The helpful, compassionate experiences with people could be a very robust source of artistic inspiration and motivation in general to pursue your dreams.  If you have decided there is no joy for you in your 9-5, you have made that a reason to not have joy in your life. 

Every moment can be an adventure. Every day can be rewarding.

Your biggest obstacle is likely the food you are eating, your weight, and or alchohol or drugs.

This is admittedly very presumptuous advice, forgive me if I am way off. 

 

[abgespaced]

I'm the same position as you- only i am still in the job. Although it is not anywhere near my LP it does teach me some good business skills which I will need for my own business. 

Why do you think your HR job is unrelated? Are you not learning valuable people skills? Negotiation skills? Discipline? All these things will help you as an artist.

[DaveB]

Thank you for your advices guys. Will find the half-time job and doing my art simultaneously,I think that's the best approach now.I found that a lot of artist doing it this way.

 

@Nahm  Well you are right abouth that that I have obstacle...not the things you mentioned... its porn addiction.Trying to quit. 

 

@abgespaced  You are kind of right, but still...in the last job I have to hire peole and it's hard to convince someone to something that you personally not really into. 

 

 

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[Dan Arnautu]

@DaveB I've dealt with this problem for a long time and found the perfect tried and tested method to get out of this type of rut.

• Dedicate three months to learning a freelancing skill that you enjoy (and can leverage into your new career)
  •  (three months is all the time you need to get proficient enough at a skill to be able to make 40$/hour) 
• Sign up to freelancing websites
• Create a good portfolio and learn to write amazing job proposals
• Find a few long term clients you can work with and earn a full time income on a flexible schedule and part time work hours
• Dedicate the remaining time in your schedule (which is a lot of time) to practicing your real craft and building a full time income on that
• Transition slowly from freelancing to your craft
• Enjoy making a living doing what you love most

Ta-da!

 

[universe]

Timestamped for the solution on how to escape.

Maybe this helps if you didnt already watch it. One thing that is very important is becoming highly creative. Feed your creativity and nurture it.

[Equanimitize]

On 8/29/2017 at 6:39 AM, DaveB said:

Where to find motivation to do 9-5 job when it's unrelated to your life purpose ?

 

Your motivation is self actualization, everything is related to everything. Put all your resources on what drives you, put least amount of energy on what doesn't drive you. 

 

On 8/29/2017 at 6:39 AM, DaveB said:

What are the best jobs for smooth career transition? 

 

Best jobs means best skills sets, you need the best skill sets to get the best jobs, to get the best skill sets you need to work hard to obtain skill sets and grind hard on whatever it is that drives you. Best jobs don't grow on trees.  

 

On 8/29/2017 at 6:39 AM, DaveB said:

 I don't understand how I'm supposed to implement my life purpose while I'm working a 9-5 job ? 

 

Every single opportunity you have to study, read, learn, implement, take action, etc. you do it. You start realizing that you in fact have a lot more time than you thought. Often times the problem is we do bull shit tasks, or waste time talking, or some other nonsense instead of doing whats important. Be ruthless with your time, of course with love for yourself and others.

[purerogue]

11 hours ago, wheelspawn said:

How narrow is your life purpose? If your life purpose is too repressive, you might be avoiding possibilities that don't mesh well with it. There has to be something good about your job. Maybe it is offering you a chance to learn something new or develop crazy self-discipline you can take into all aspects of your life.

You claim to find your job "meaningless", but I suspect that attitude would carry over into any job you take, even one that appears to be your dream job. What if, instead of changing your job, you changed your entire attitude towards work? I urge you to consider it.

This is closest you can get to, if you know that you need money to live, you must do some job anyway and you find everything besides  thing you want to do be meaningless and depressing, then you will have huge issues in life and anything that does not go your way will be depressing.

 

[Chase Ellfeldt]

Reminds me of Albert Einstein because he took an extremely easy job that was boring because it freed up his time. 

He knew he had to eat and drink but he didn't want to use up his valuable time and energy on his job. 

In summary; I agree with everyone else. Have something that pays the Bill's but does not take up your time. Then funnel your resources into your life purpose.