Delightful Work

Born in 1950 and country grown outside of Pittsburgh where I naturally went deep. The space program was a big deal when I was 11 and 12 years old but I can clearly remember it not holding a lick of interest for me.

I was into digging and dirt. I built dams in farmer’s streams. My buddies and I built earthen forts and tried tunneling. One of the best stand-by-me adventures was following a gas line excavation for miles, all day long.

At 12 I took my first job on a farm and my love of gardening grew from there. I worked on the farm for 5 years and loved every bit of it but I especially loved digging up spuds and stacking the wooden crates high in cool, dimly lit storage rooms.

When I was 17 I took a job going deeper into the earth and worked with a backhoe operator installing sewer pipes. I loved carrying those 80 lb. terra cotta sections and jumping in and out of ditches. Can you see the developing theme? Can you see what my life was trying to tell me, even then?

At 19, on summer break from college, I worked as a United Mine Worker in a deep shaft coal mine.

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Dear Frustrated Right Career Seeker:

Are you vocationally frustrated and confused? Do you find yourself at a career crossroads without a map? Tired of guessing and doubting?

If so look into your gut and see if you can believe in the following statement at least 51%.

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You may have noticed the hullabaloo around authentic business building lately. Most businesses can’t pull it off because it’s like trying to put a suit on an ape. No matter how sharp the suit the ape wearing it is still a monkey.

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True callings are big, ballsy and boldly uplifting. True callings invite you to ride a wave of reconnection that simply doesn’t allow small thinking. Yes I’m talking about reconnecting your original link between authenticity (expressed true calling) and abundance but I’m also referring to a second reconnection – the deep connection of authentic souls to one another.

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Connecting the link between authenticity and prosperity is a process of coming back to oneself. My intention is to create environments where your reconnection to original magnificence will thrive. I want to show you your way to ring your authentic bell so that you continue to hear its strong, clear call.

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This is a pretty much off-the-cuff report on what’s been going on with me in the last week. I’ve identified a very big objective and I’m working through a gestation period to allow my ideas to fully form. Realizations are coming rapid fire and my certainty and confidence are growing daily.

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Fear dilutes authenticity and once diluted it doesn’t hold enough power to sustain itself. Our dreams then become like kites without wind.

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I’m a 270-pound, 59 year old, with two ankle fusions, who is in training to play one more game of rugby. Often they ask, why subject yourself to the very thing that destroyed all the cartilage in your ankles?

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Is it inauthentic to do the things that you don’t like to do? Just because a career choice is challenging does that automatically mean you’ve chosen the wrong career?

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You compensate. I compensate. To some degree we all compensate for a lack of authentic work. Over time we’ve made stuff up to rationalize our unfulfilling work. We’ve pretended, avoided and shirked responsibility in order to make our work fit who we are.

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