Title: How to Find Satisfying Work This video: Modern life is void of meaning and it is hard to find satisfying work

But the video isn't about "finding satisfying work", rather the problem of work nowadays not being satisfying!

_"what we consume ends up determining what we can produce"_

My decision years ago has been to either work a corporate job as a scientist and earn a good amount of money, or choose poverty and try to survive as a novelist (I come from a poor family). As a shy person, I couldn´t imagine "marketing myself" in order to sell my books/artwork, so I joined the corporate world - and hated it ever since. Noticing how much I hated it right from the start, I started to save up the vast majority of my income and invest it in order to retire early. This will hopefully come true soon and I will leave the corporate mess, but I might have lost my passion for writing after all those years in the treadmill. Also, I sold the best years of my life to the rat race and spent this time in constant stress and low quality of living. I have no advise to give - if I´d be 25 again, I again wouldn´t know how to decide.

I truly appreciate the animators work.

as an animation graduate, I cannot express enough how much I appreciate and admire this animation and editing work.

My thoughts: Finding your values, what you consider important in life is a foundation for many things, including choosing a work Then, find your values. Ex: freedom, harmony, community (being with people) You like many things but no matter the job you choose you will dislike part or the whole. Now you think how you want to live following your values. How much you need to have the lifestyle you want, how much cost the things you would like to experience. *Don't make your job the main part of your life* Your job is to be the main money input machine, but not more than this. You can be a painter, but just work as painter part of your day. Along the day you can paint but it's not more your job, it's your studying, hobby, your resting, you have no obligations. Or you can be a painter, and after the job hours, you go play guitar, write songs or stories, or go to sell candies(flowers etc) with your friends or family members or alone. You can gain money with it, but you wouldn't do it for money. You can like to talk and convince people, to walk on the streets with a purpose, or to teach a younger family member how to be responsible by herself. You can work at a office in a company, but you can also be a photographer, go to walks with your cameras, publish good photos on blogs or be a KZfaqr. You can be a volunteer teaching some sports or instruments, or taking care of pets. There are many many many possibilities. And even your job, your main money income machine, can change along your life. Be aware of yourself. Have open options, experiment along your life. Think "oh, ok, I will work on this company for the next 10 years, in this time I need to save enough to 1 year of "no job", and while working I will write my story, my blog, photograph the park and some travels, or sell things, or I will learn to code and try to do the game that I want to play etc etc" Obviously your velocity doing the things and improving on them will be slower than if they were you main focus. You will have less time and energy, but that will pay off. Summary: *Find your values* They will decide many things in your life. Ally your choices with your values. *Decide how you want do live* Think how you imagine yourself living, what you want to experience, to do, what people you want to meet, where you want to live. And how much it all costs. This will decide how much have to be your income. *Don't make your job the protagonist of your life* No matter what your job, even if it's something you like. Make others things too, if your job can be a hobby (singer, painter, game player) then let them be a hobby for some time of your day, forget your obligations. *Don't think your job as a life work* When you choose a job, a career, you are not stuck at it forever. You can change your mind, and you should be prepare to it. Plan it. You must aim to have a minimum of financial freedom, in the end money is the reason why you would have a job, right? Hope it helps.

One of the biggest challenges in life is finding the sweet balance of enjoying what you do and making good income. But sometimes because of society's perception on what matters more than the other, certain occupations are overlooked, like the arts and humanities in comparison to medicine and other natural sciences. For this reason, people sacrifice personal joy and contentment for money and survival. It's fucked up because the system perpetuates us to prioritize what's lucrative over what makes us happy.

Hmm... you never actually said how find satisfying work... You did describe the hellhole I’m in right now, though... I’m now even more depressed.. thank you?

"Our lives may be too lacking in meaning, to concentrate only on what's meaningful"

When I worked in the corporate world, the work was satisfying. It was the petty politics, back-stabbing, and common garden psychopaths that made for a shabby experience.

That was interesting but I definitely expected something vastly different ftom the title

This is the first time one of your videos just didn't have a clear message. It had a lot of words and interesting art, but the message didn't really come through, especially related to the title. I think it needs a bit more to tie it together into a cohesive message.

The importance of finding work in line with who you are and where you're accepted and appreciated for being true to yourself

Just finishing my PhD, and wondering what I should do next, this is the very best and on time thing for me to watch!

- Today to become economically successful you need to sell fried chicken. - Our personal interests do not attract everyone, that is a kid's idea of the world. - modern successful economies are focused on choice but forgot the importance of quality in a single product - we work to much therefore we hate ourselves too much to consume what is good for us. What we consume is what we end up producing. - These days we sell ourselves agressevily in the hope to find the right job. Now I understand why London has so many different options of bread but they are not tasty age fresh, while Bolivia has small choice in bread but they are of high quality.

This came at the perfect time I just got two new jobs that I’m excited about but with less pay to leave one that I wasn’t feeling very good about anymore I’m really nervous because I need to survive but I don’t want to be trapped doing the same thing for my whole life, I wish we could try everything

I’ve seen over 200 school of life videos and this one was off the mark. Still don’t give up on this channel because most of its videos are outstanding!

*Stop finding Satisfying Work because No work is Satisfying * Stick to what you have or explore and use your talents. Work passionately and professionally because your work benefits other people's problems. This means in order to live we must serve others to maintain balance and also give time to ourselves Because we deserve to be rewarded by our hard work and contribution 😊

I really needed this right at this moment, thank you, School of Life!

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Guys, the sound effects are way to loud. You helped us with our lives, we can help you back. If you need any.

Some people are fortunate ad can find satisfaction in external circumstances for a time. For most people, it is easier to find satisfaction in what they do all day instead of searching somewhere external. We have much more influence on ourselves than on others after all.

I feel like the voice-over is a little rushed and the same soothing frequency that makes other videos great seems to be missing from this particular voice-over. The script moves a bit too fast for me to process the information.

Applying for my first job ever, at Wendy's.

I liked it so much But I realized The English that used in video is too heavy to understand (from unnative speakers) Could you use a little bit easy english in order to make your videos more understandable :)

If you were living by yourself in a remote island you could think only about what you like to do the most and spending your whole free time doing that (but that wouldn't be that much time, since you would have to survive and do absolutely everything you needed in your life, no buying, just making by yourself). The more people you put in the island the more you can specialize in what you like to do and trade your productivity with the others to save time, since you can just do what you do best and not every single thing in life. But you can't expect they will like or value the things you do just because it's important to you, also you can't force them to trade their productivity with you if they want something else. Economy is not about finding what you like to do and force the whole society to give it as much value as you do. It's about finding what the others want, what they seek, what they would "buy", what they would trade their productivity with you. It's being less selfish and look at the people around you and their needs/wills. You can do whatever you want, is it really possible that every single thing you would like to do as a profession is garbage to the other 7.5 billion people in this planet? If you don't need much money to be happy, great! But if you do, then what are you giving the society in exchange?

I’ve heard criticism of the school of life, but it’s one of the few channels that I actually feel relatability with🥰

The artwork for this video is simply stunning! I love it so much!

Preparing my resume and finding work while watching this. I'm excited

Work produces things. It takes skills to produce those things. Satisfying work makes you happy producing said thing. Thus, to find satisfying work you need to: 1. Understand what skills you need to produce the thing that makes you happy. 2. Learn those skills. 3. Apply for work that exercises those skills. 4. If you aren't satisfied, it could be environment related. Look for another area/industry that exercises those skills. Otherwise, perhaps what you thought was satisfying isn't what you thought or has changed upon learning more. In that case, rinse and repeat. We need a School of Life on implementing the right environment that organically grows satisfying jobs.

This video is incredibly problematic in it's titling. The video itself speaks only about the problem and offers no real solution. The title promises a solution without really requiring a narrative about the problem.

Are you guys reading my mind? This is the precise problem I'm having.

Thank you Alain. I really missed your voice. Thank you for all that you do.

People will definitely be kicking themselves in regret for missing the opportunity to buy and invest in cryptocurrency.

problem: money being tied to survival itself

Perfect timing since I've been thinking about quitting my work that i feel suffocated and now i still dont know what to do 😂

I’d go for autonomy over wealth any day

Productivity is one of those things thats highly contagious, fortunately!

I think, this video is about finding the right balance between *what others really need and are willing to pay for* and *your inner wonderful you that wants to be seen and heard of* Thank you!

I didn’t understand anything ....🙄🙄🙄

This style of drawing is great

Each video I get more and more that it is not meant to save us, but to make sense of it all. Make our peace with it. And hopefully, with a new perspective of things, we can act differently with people around us (children, grown children AKA adults).

What happened to the audio? It seems overly loud.

the motives are nothing like most people have, this video feels really out of place and gives very little advice. The properly way to love what you do is respect yourself first, respect your peers and profession. Have a PROPER work-life balance, integrating your job and schedule to your daily life. If you work from home give yourself a nice office, invest in a good monitor and chair. If you are happy with what you do, be more open to the people close in your life about it, let them know what you do and how you like it. If you have a jerk boss or mates, talk to them and resolve some of these issues. If your job gives your a hard time then focus on yourself and try having an open mind for getting another job. Get yourself some nice clothes, give you a confidence boost, smile and be happy. sleep properly at night, stop being so late in the computer, you need to rest and be properly fed in order for your brain to work. Cut off bad habits like constant gaming and drugs, as well as bad friends. Then you will realize it's not your job what you hate, but the poorly balanced life and place in which you are in. Damn this video was lame.

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

I personally didn't gain any useful information from this video but I just watched to the end for the sake of its art work

Happy to have a video to show people now detailing how I’ve been feeling for a few years.

Literally felt the sentiment of "There was a time I didn't market myself and I just was" right as i was graduating high school and started college. I was already feeling the pressure of being palatable enough to hire

*Focus on you until the FOCUS IS YOU!!*

Tittle should be “The Sorrows of Competition”

Feels like society is broken in every way

It seems like a lot of people are looking for a simple answer and missing the point here. Finding meaning in any context can be hard work and quite personal, and it all begins with understanding yourself, the world you live in, and your dynamic relationship between it all. Understanding this better will help you play an active role in finding meaning rather than being pushed around by the currents of everything around you feeling lost. That’s just me tho

Each of us should work on bettering our quality of life and focusing on things that add value to our living, than things which take away the value. Only then, we can collectively add value to the market we are working for.

This came like a slap in the face right when I needed it, even though I was aware of what's happening to me I couldn't snap out of it.. thank you!

Life is short , hurry up and upload as many videos as you can , the content is priceless and we cant attend your seminars or buy your books.

My job sucks and I honestly thought I was going to find the solution in this video.

I know the pain of not being able to find rare native plants, I love that example

Love the way this British dude puts my feelings into words.

I'm fortunate enough to have a satisfactory work.

This video was lost to me and I usually enjoy these and find some deeper understanding and comfort. This video in no way explained how one can find satisfying work. It was more depressing than anything. It basically says our society consumes corprate drival and thus we are all trapped in producing for pay said corpratized drival. I came to the conclusion of this years ago myself and realized there is no way to have satisfying work due to these things. Short of getting a windfall of cash or lucking out and having your own business succeed against the odds of a corprate dominated society, we're all trapped in unfilling work that most certainly causes us to have to "sell out" and go against our own ethics. We are forced to sacrifice happiness and our own ethics simply to survive in this world. None of this video helped in any way to show how to break out of this rat race. This could not have been more misleading of a title.

Woooow the kind of advice I needed came just in time huhu thank you

the only work one should do is: without a boss, ego, doctrines, toxic environment, 30% salary gov steal, and no taxes. bringing you the state of abundance, fulfillment. and equilibrium not only for oneself, but serving mankind, carried out according natural law, true life purpose. #quityourjob #beingfreeisourbirthright

Moderation. The power to say no to oneself. Perhaps one of the few episodes that I agree with.

Yes, this is not a step-by-step tutorial BUT: Finding satisfactory work is something as specific and subjective as there different personalities, interests and talents on this planet. So of course there can't be a tutorial on how to find satisfying work. BUT (another but, yes): Still I believe this video definitely can help to reflect ones own path, ones current situation and ones own individual goals (what these might be is really up to each individual). So having this in mind you can actively look for satisfaction in whatever situation you're currently involved in. I'm sure self-knowledge and self-determination are the keys... (I am aware, that there are extreme situations, where this doesn't apply) And yes, this video is a beautiful piece of Motion Design and Illustration 😍😍😍

This video analyzed why work is not satisfying, but it didn't answer how to make work more satisfying.

Sound effects are on point today.

*How to Find Satisfying Work!* Answer -> Restructure society 🤔🧐 Could also just try to focus on finding meaning in the moment and not defining yourself by the things you do to earn money to live. My work could be dry as hell, and I'd love my coworkers and that'd be my favorite job.

To me the biggest pain of working is the fact that you're forced to take on a Full Time job in order to be able to pay the bills. I don't mind working , but we need some time to spend with friends and family and enough money to cover the bills.

Wow, right when I’m unemployed. School of Life’s best timing ever.

Anyone else notice the title had noooottthiiinnnggg to do with the content?

Thank you school of life, I love listening here 👍🕯️🧠🕊️🍵☕

these videos hit different during quarantine

Great job on the animation! The design work and the direction are very attractive - smartly done. ( and of course, as usual, I loved the talk!)

Also I guess there really isn't anything wrong with having a career that doesn't fulfill you as an individual. We all need people (or robots) to fill positions to make our communities function. If we think of a job or career as service to others, we can be proud of our contribution to society and still have our own time off the clock to fulfill our own personal desires and interests. The issues around work arises when we are not compensated enough for our work to be able to survive AND have a life outside of work (ex. an individual not being able to support themselves off minimum wage at 40hrs a week or less). We also sometimes have crazy expectations where employers expect their workers to work so many more hours than necessary even if the employee would be making enough to work less during their week and still getting all their tasks done (ex. generally workers become more efficient over time and need less time to get the same tasks or more done). There needs to be an actual work life balance in people's lives and I don't think society is quite there yet. Hopefully that will change soon if we demand it to be so.

I am watching from Kalam Valley

Oh, if I may, the video seems to encourage a loyalty to the native predilections within; even in circumstances that might scorn them. That this would encompass, among many other things, satisfying work, is the implicit example the title affords us.

So....what's the solution?

I love your voice. Your accent!

Did anybody else read this as "How to find work satisfying" or was it just me?

This is what I don't like about this channel. All this video does is explain topics but never actually discussed possible solutions. It pretends it does though. Not the first video on this channel to do this either

This was flippin brilliant. Sorry if some missed it, probably the monotone, but this analysis and insight is inherently full of answers. Bravo!

Market economics is notably unkind to most of our higher nature; but even in our ease we sell our souls for bread which we do not need. Humility, kindness, love and peace are then seen as either failings to be preyed upon or 'improved'. I prefer to stand as far outside of this chaos as possible rather than fall into a lament something like Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much With Us'; itself an untenable over-reaction to the basics of human need.

Another GREAT & Wonderful one. THANK YOU!!!!!!!🌸🌼🏵️🌻🌻❇️🌻💐🌷💗💗💗

It's all about quality not quantity.

I think the solution is finding work that carries some meaning for you, or at the very least, reframing how you view your work so as to give it meaning to your life. It a hard exercise of your work is in a factory line but for most cases, you can probably look for a better fit in your job or not take it too personally when you're not being rewarded by the market as you think you deserve to be rewarded subjectively.

I figured out how to drive my car delivering food 6 hrs a day avg every day and make 50k+ in a small city. Satisfied enough

I love school of life! It's changed my life! For some reason though this video in particular was hard for me to comprehend. I don't know if it was the unusually busy animations, or the sound effects throughout, or my lack of sleep last night LOL. Anyway keep up the great work and maybe consider keeping things simple :-)

I think part of what makes a good job is one that can support you but doesn't overwork you. I would honestly rather earn more time (ex. working 4 days a week instead of 5) than earn a raise.

I think the variety of sounds and animations are making it difficult for viewers to grasp the message of the video. Despite this, I still love this channel!

Title is misleading though

Your videos never show up in my feed anymore, did you get Shadow Banned? HAs anyone else experienced this?

So if I understand correctly, what you're saying is: Don't give into the desire to only consume baser pleasures, and instead reintroduce yourself to the more highbrow or unique ones. By creating a demand for such things, more people will have satisfying work in a kind of self-created feedback loop.

At least we now know that the people who earn more doesn't mean they are happier than us!

I felt old when I realized I knew what A/S/L meant 🥲

perfect timing

i'm quite satisfied with my job; just not satisfied with my inability to pay for rent, food, AND insurance with a 40 hr week on minimum wage :) make life affordable again.

The school of life is literally a fly on the wall

Despite most peoples comments here, i thoroughly enjoyed the video and found it quite profound and insightful. I gained a lot from it so kudos to the school of life for this beautifully well written little segment

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