Something I have asked myself as of lately is “What am I looking for in a job?”

I have felt for some time that I need to make a list of the things I do not want to help in my decision process.  My wise Yoda friend Emma said that I should start with what I want to do.  Right she was I know.  The  thing is I have never really had that childhood dream of “I want to be flying lemur trainer at a flea circus” or other typical dreams.  Now you may be wondering what my abnormal dreams have been and thinking I should start there and I have not wanted to be a waterfighter or a police person.  I should really focus on the things I know I want to do and get to the point where the things I want to do clearly filter out the things I do not want to do.  Also if I start categorizing what I do want to do, I might see something in that list with the proverbially skull and cross-bones on it that would actually fit me. 

When I was a youth, two things I  said I wanted to do was working at a church with children/youth  full-time and then at another point was to be a business owner.  The church part went away in that I have my faith, but I want to express it more outside of the church when it comes to a career.  The business owner was something that I decided I did not want to do after seeing people’s lives being run by their own business.  As I envision it now though, I am able to see myself running a business in some aspect.  Right now I see something that would be more of a residual income.

Through books and blogs and podcasts I have started to discover some firm foundations of what I want to see in a business in which I work at.  As with anything there are wants and needs.  Now there are few true needs as in food and shelter, but I see honesty as a need in business.

On another line, my view is that work should reflect oneself as clearly as possible.  If your reflection at work is like a fun house mirror of your true self, then how do you recognize yourself?  How will others see as being honest at home is your place of work is not?

Now to create a literal list…

That will be another blog.

Thank you for joining me as I look for the right reflective surfaces for me.

As Bradley Hathaway said in Manly Man poem, “I am not there yet, but past is start.”

K, bye

What stands out to you here?

Do you have a literal list?