“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”

– Katherine Whitehorn, British journalist, writer and columnist

“How’s the new job?”

“It’s OK,” replied my friend without looking up.

“Just OK?” The response struck me as lukewarm. “Not great or fantastic?”

“It’s OK,” he repeated and I got the impression he didn’t want to talk about it.

It has been my experience that people can be divided into four categories when it comes to employment: people who are unemployed and looking for work, people who work but hate what they do, those who are just OK with their job and those few (only about 10 per cent) who absolutely love their work an...

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