"The meaning of live" Luc Galoppin

Chose promise... mais le temps est court, un ami passe ce soir, besoin de réconfort, gueuleton à préparer... C'est bien connu, les esprits -masculins- s'apaisent autour d'une bonne table!
Faute de temps donc, je m'empresse de vous reproduire (sans les traduire, mes excuses) les propos de Luc Galoppin (très sympa d'ailleurs), extraits d'un article intitulé "Love and work - the meaning of live". je vous le recommande vivement en espérant que nous arriverons tous un jour à cet équilibre parfait... Un jour peut-être, je le traduirai et le commenterai...
Recent research suggests that most people approach their work in one of three ways: as a job, a career or a calling.
If you see your work as a job, you do it only for the money and you tend to look at the clock frequently while dreaming about the weekend ahead.
If you see your work as a career you have larger goals of advancement and promotion. The pursuit of these goals often energizes you and you sometimes take work home because you want to get the job done properly. Yet at times you wonder why you work so hard.
If you see your work as a calling however, you find your work intrinsically fulfilling. You see your work as contributing to a greater good. You have frequent experiences of flow during the workday and you don’t have the desire to shout ‘Thank God It’s Friday’.
The search for purpose within life turns out to be a matter of aligning love and work in your life. Getting the right relationship between you and your work is not easy. However, if you think that blue-collar workers have jobs, managers have careers and the more respected professionals (doctors, scientists and clergy) have callings, you are wrong. In his book Haidt cites research that suggests that ‘occupational self-direction‘ is the determining factor.
In earlier posts I have described this occupational self-direction as ‘job control’ and ‘job autonomy’ and came to the same conclusions. Nevertheless, I would like to quote the inspiring example he used to state this fact. In a study of hospital workers, Amy Wrzesniewski, a psychologist at Yale University, found that the employees who cleaned bedpans and mopped up vomit, sometimes saw themselves as part of a team whose goal was to heal people. They went beyond the minimum requirements of their job description, for example by trying to brighten up the rooms of very sick patients, or by anticipating the needs of the doctors and nurses. They viewed their work as a calling, and enjoyed it far more than those who saw it as a job.
Work done with love is the meaning within life. Love and work are crucial for human happiness because they can draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves.