Comfortably Miserable
One of my favorite podcasts is Daily Boost. A recent episode was titled Stop Being Comfortably Miserable . I loved the phrase comfortably miserable because it fits so many people that I see. I know people that hate their job or their career and they don't do anything about it. Maybe they don't hate it, but they do not enjoy it or feel fulfilled doing what they spend 40 hours a week or more. If someone is not happy, why do they keep doing it? For some, it is simply inertia. They have been a plumber or engineer or sale rep so long they don't know anything else. For others it is a fear of the unknown and they see their current job as "safe". They will often use phrases like "better the devil you know" implying that as much as they may dislike their current job, it could be worse somewhere else. Previous generations had more job security as the common practice was "job for life" and as long as someone kept working they were reasonably certa