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Job satisfaction /n/: a sense of happiness and fulfillment felt by people who enjoy their work, and do it well.

In my work as a coach, I have identified 10 areas that contribute to my clients’ satisfaction at work. While all of these areas will play a part in job satisfaction to some degree or another, how they are prioritized will vary from individual to individual. I have listed five today and will present five more in the next blog post.

1. Financial reward. Those who approach their work as a means to an end place more emphasis on their paycheck than they do on their interest in the work itself. People who fall into this category are motivated by money and find fulfillment when they are paid for their performance. Those who fall into this group easily move on when a higher-paying job comes their way.

2. Stability. Those who see their work primarily as a way to provide for themselves or their family often put emphasis on stability, rather than on advancement or career growth. In tough economic times, particularly when layoffs are rampant and new jobs are hard to come by, those who usually put stability toward the end of their priority list may find themselves moving it higher up the list.

3. Advancement and recognition. Those who are motivated by advancement and recognition approach their work with their career in mind. They are more willing to put up with doing things they don’t enjoy in the short term, as long as it allows them to climb the ladder in the long term. People in this group are motivated and fulfilled by power, prestige and status. Opportunity to move onward and upward–and to see their progress–make them happy.

4. Impact. Those who are motivated by the impact they have–on the world, on other people, on the field they are working in, or even on the organization itself–are focused on making a difference. They get their satisfaction from contributing and from understanding how that contribution matters in the big picture.

5. Process. Those who are motivated by the work itself view their job as a “calling” or as their raison d’etre. When all is said and done, they love the actual work itself, and that is their focus. An artist, for example, may find fulfillment in the act of creating, and that may take precedence over fame, fortune, or making a difference (which is not to suggest that other artists won’t find satisfaction in those things!).

Published by Marshall Brown, “The Career Coach Is In” for the Washington Post.
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There’s no quick fix to finding fulfilling work – the kind of work that gets you out of bed in the morning before the alarm clock rings. Some people give up on the pursuit of job satisfaction altogether, buying into the belief that work is a means to an end, a necessary evil, something to pay the bills.

Others believe that job satisfaction is linked to finding a new job. They believe lack of fulfillment is rooted in the job itself, or in the organization they are working for. They stay at one job until the honeymoon is over and then move on to another.

But moving on is becoming increasingly difficult. Our economy is in a major slump and new jobs are hard to come by. Not to mention that moving from job to job is an exhausting endeavour in itself, especially when you never really find what you’re looking for.

In today’s highly competitive workplace, it’s not good enough to merely survive; you must be able to thrive.

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There’s no quick fix to finding fulfillment in your job —you know, the kind of job that gets you out of bed in the morning before the alarm clock rings. Some people give up on the pursuit of job satisfaction altogether, buying into the belief that work is a means to end, a necessary evil, something you have to do to pay the bills.

Others believe that job satisfaction is linked to finding a new job. They believe their lack of fulfillment is rooted in the job itself, or in the organization they are working for. They stay at one job until the honeymoon is over, and then they move on to another.

But moving on is becoming increasingly difficult. Our economy is in a major slump, and new jobs are hard to come by. Not to mention that moving from job to job is an exhausting endeavor in itself . . . especially when you never really find what you’re looking for.

Forget the economy, forget everything you’ve been told about job satisfaction, and focus on these two facts:

1. You don’t have to accept the slump you are in.
2. It’s possible for you to find satisfaction . . . in the job you have right now.

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