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Workplace Myth #2: ?If I?m not happy at work, I must be in the wrong job and should just quit?

ThreadsHere’s the second in the workplace myths series from Threads. ?Tom Marshall writes:

I do feel sorry for God, because we middle class Christians possess a definite, unofficial tick-list: happy childhood, school, university, marriage partner, house, family, great career. Often, when one or more of these dreams?doesn’t?materialise in the way we?d hoped, we round on God and complain. As my time at the software firm stretched on without any sign of escape, so my frustration with God grew. I felt that God had led me down a cul-de-sac into the ?wrong job? and it?didn’t?help that many of my friends from school and uni were marching onwards in what I viewed as the ?right job?. [Read more…] about Workplace Myth #2: ?If I?m not happy at work, I must be in the wrong job and should just quit?

Exploring some common Workplace Myths

The creative people at Threads are putting together a very interesting series of blogs entitled “10 Myths about Work” (they were up to Myth #8 last time I looked).

Here’s how they introduced the series:

“Between leaving full-time education and retirement we?ll spend about 90,000 hours in the workplace. Work is a hugely significant part of life, but one that we don?t talk about all that much, let alone hear much teaching on at church. This mini-series tackles the top 10 myths about work ? common things that we can all fall into believing when we lose God?s perspective on our work. Join the debate ? let?s break the silence.” [Read more…] about Exploring some common Workplace Myths