So yesterday I was talking to my two best friends from high school about life, what else? We’re all the same age, but feel like we’re in really different places of our lives in some regards. And in other regards, it feels like we’re in the same place. We’ve all been struggling with our careers and jobs for a few years–complaining, jumping around, trying new things.
And it seems like we’re all slowly getting to a point where we’re ok with our jobs not being these grand careers for the time being. We’re starting to get more comfortable with working without these plans that are supposed to get us to huge achievements.
As my friend was talking about being more stagnant at work, my brain flew back to high school and thought freakishly quickly of the phase change graph. Here’s a refresher:
I thought about how in those phase change plateaus, the temperature stays the same, but other things are still changing.
I think we often think or are told or are shown that we need to move up quickly at work (take moving up to mean whatever you will, I don’t just mean promotions and such). But the truth of the matter is, sometimes we gotta stay stagnant to do other kinds of work too–maybe work on personal lives, maybe work on side projects, maybe work that’s related to your career.
The truth of the matter is, life if graphed would probably looks more like:
But the nerd side of me still likes this new phase change philosophy.
tmd 