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NO MORE 9 TO 5 019 dream


Choosing the perfect career or taking a different path in your working life can pose plenty of challenges. Here, we track down some local names and famous faces who have found fresh inspiration for their role and also pursued childhood passions


Sophie Astin F


reud famously considered that ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness’. But while true love is harder to quantify, work is quite


often something we choose with the aim of maximum fulfi lment. Yet there is no guarantee that a job that makes us happy will actually be our dream job, just as there is no guarantee that our dream job will, in fact, make us happy. So what is a dream job? Does it exist?


Is there only one dream job for everyone? Since most of us spend a great deal of our lives working, it is inevitable that work plays a key role in shaping our levels of happiness. Those of us who have had a job that makes us happy – or at least isn’t monotonous or stressful – understand


the relief that work satisfaction can bring to an otherwise unpredictable life. I was fortunate enough to work for several years as the Personal Assistant to Douglas Adams, author of the cult Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series – a dream role in which no two days were ever the same. But for many people, the appeal of starting the working day by fi ghting for a seat on the 7.16 to London, before being chained to a desk all day and spending the weekend clamped to an iPhone, is shifting; the ‘nine to fi ve’ is being replaced by a desire to follow their dream. And it appears that we Brits are a nation harbouring hidden talents: 34% of us regret never progressing our talents any further. New research by uSwitch.com, sponsors of Saturday night show Britain’s Got Talent, reports that over a third of us


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with a talent wish we’d chased our dreams more when we were younger, while 18% say that career and family are more important. They say that if you fi nd a job you love, you will never work a day in your life. Though the origins of this saying, which some have attributed to ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, remain obscure, its message is undeniable. Whatever career avenues life presents us with if you feel motivated, respected and engaged with your employment then it is likely to offer a greater sense of fulfi llment.


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