Name: 【TEDx】Find your dream job without ever looking at your resume | Laura Berman Fortgang | TEDxBocaRaton
Uploaded: 2017-05-08T20:39:29.000Z
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Everybody knows somebody who hates their job.

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In fact, half of the people in the United States who work

would do something else for a living if given the chance.

it's easier to stick with the devil you know.

Walking away from a paycheck and benefits -

that doesn't fit conventional wisdom , and doing something more meaningful -

But when I think about this subject, I think of my grandfather,

my immigrant grandfather who left Poland, alone, on a boat, at 17 years old,

I wonder what he would think about us talking about being happy at work.

the first to have a "good corporate job,"

his was the 1960s' version of being happy at work.

that to be happy at work, people want to be engaged.

They want to have mastery over their subject matter.

that what they do matters more than the paycheck they get.

that 50 per cent of us can't figure out what we want to do with our life?

I think it's because when we are in doubt, we look to our resume.

We look to our credentials, what we're qualified to do.

What we're qualified to do is not necessarily what we're meant to do.

It isn't necessarily what's going to bring us satisfaction.

>From a little hummingbird egg to an ostrich egg,

For people, that shell are our credentials, our track record,

A lot of us get attached to that shell, it becomes our identity,

But to get to the good stuff, you have to crack the egg open.

Because inside is the yolk, the golden center.

That's what determines how each egg is unique.

For people, I call that yolk their "life blueprint."

Everything that can be taken away is the shell.

The status, your identity, what people think of you,

But what can't be taken away is the yolk.

That's where the discovery of career satisfaction can happen.

that career satisfaction doesn't come from what you do.

It comes from who you get to be  while you're doing that job.

I wanted nothing more than to be a Broadway star.

Well, I did reasonably well; I got my union card,

I worked in reputable theaters, and I gave myself five years to make it,

and at year eight, I was still waiting on tables.

that I thought that I failed at the only thing I ever wanted.

10 years after I left show business, I had an epiphany about this.

I remembered a scholarship that I was up for,

for an acting program where they asked me:

"What would be possible if you were successful as a performer?"

I knew it was like the right answer, the Miss America pageant answer,

the "I'm going to get the scholarship" answer.

"Well, if I were successful as a performer,

people would see me on stage and be moved to change something in their life."

But it wasn't until ten years later when I realized what I really had said;

the performer was the shell causing change from the stage.

So I hadn't failed at my dream after all;

I just suffered from a misinterpretation of my dream.

I needed to allow the dream to change form.

I think that's what's wrong for a lot of us

No one's taught us to pull the dream apart

and understand the true significance of it.

We're told we could be anything  we want to be when we grow up.

But when we go to pick that college major,

the question changes from, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

to, "How are you going to make a living with that?"

what are dreams and imaginations really mean to our career trajectory.

John was someone who heard me speak about this concept

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