<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="John C. Maxwell" title="John C. Maxwell - motivational expert and author" src="http://getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/john-maxwell-08.jpg" />People who want to retire so they can sit under a coconut tree watching the grass grow baffle me. We were created for meaningful work, and one of life&#8217;s greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.</p>
<p>And yet, there are millions of people who don&#8217;t like their job. There are over 600,000 ways to make a living in this country, yet job satisfaction surveys tell us that more than 50 percent of the working population claim to dislike their job. Something&#8217;s wrong with this picture!<br />
I&#8217;ve discovered that loving the job you have, or finding a job you can love, is dependent on three things. I call these the &#8220;ABC&#8217;s of Loving Your Job.&#8221; <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/09/how-to-love-your-work-the-abcs-of-loving-your-job-by-john-c-maxwell/" title="Permanent Link: How to Love Your Work. The ABC’s of Loving Your Job by John C. Maxwell" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1934,"date":"2013-09-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2023-10-10T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T00:27:39","slug":"how-to-love-your-work-the-abcs-of-loving-your-job-by-john-c-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/09\/how-to-love-your-work-the-abcs-of-loving-your-job-by-john-c-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Love Your Work. The ABC\u2019s of Loving Your Job by John C. Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"John C. Maxwell\" title=\"John C. Maxwell - motivational expert and author\" src=\"http:\/\/getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/john-maxwell-08.jpg\" \/>People who want to retire so they can sit under a coconut tree watching the grass grow baffle me. We were created for meaningful work, and one of life&#8217;s greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, there are millions of people who don&#8217;t like their job. There are over 600,000 ways to make a living in this country, yet job satisfaction surveys tell us that more than 50 percent of the working population claim to dislike their job. Something&#8217;s wrong with this picture!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve discovered that loving the job you have, or finding a job you can love, is dependent on three things. I call these the &#8220;ABC&#8217;s of Loving Your Job.&#8221; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/09\/how-to-love-your-work-the-abcs-of-loving-your-job-by-john-c-maxwell\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: How to Love Your Work. The ABC\u2019s of Loving Your Job by John C. Maxwell\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}