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Who Gives A Tuppeny Shit What The Neighbors Think!

Roy Carter
5 min readJul 1, 2019

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If you don’t love your job, you’re in the wrong line of work.

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I put out a little survey email to my list of newsletter subscribers not too long ago. In it, among other things, I said…

“The tricky bit though, is that I don’t actually know how many of you are actually in a job or business that you’d much rather not be doing.

So, help me out here would ya?

If that sounds like you, would you just hit reply to this email and let me know what job or business you are currently in, plus why you dislike it and would love to be out of it if you had the chance?”

I had some very interesting replies. Can’t share the actual individual replies here of course as they are private between the people who replied and myself.

However, what I can tell you is that the survey did reinforce a major belief of mine and that is this:-

If you don’t love your job, you’re in the wrong line of work!

The fact is that there are lots of people who do actually love their job and get a lot of fulfillment from the work they do. So, of course that is fine.

But for the many, many folks all over the world who don’t actually love their job and only do it because they have to, in order to pay the…

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Roy Carter
Roy Carter

Written by Roy Carter

Founder of www.LettersFromASmallisland.com monthly newsletter sent from my home on Magnetic Island — ‘A Quaint Little Drinking Island With A Fishing Problem! ‘

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