Does your Job Play in the Key of "C" ?

Back in the 1940’s a fellow who worked in the coal mines in Eastern Kentucky came into a restaurant and was seated next to a well-dressed man and they stuck up a conversation. The well-dressed, affluent looking guy was a Zither salesman and was making “real good money”.

The coal minor said he hated the mines and wanted out, so he got a job selling Zithers and made “good money” and was very happy. The Zither came with a bunch of sheet music to songs that you could play on it. For about six months he sold more Zithers than anyone in the company. People began asking him if they could get the music for some of the more “modern tunes” of the day. His company explained to him that the Zither only played in the key of “C” and you couldn’t play a song that had any sharps or flats.
After the day he found that out, he didn’t sell as many Zithers. Each week he sold less and less and finally he quit.

If what you sell, or your business only play’s in the key of “C” then go find something you can really “put your heart and soul into”. Go do something you love, then your work will seem like play.

I was at a radio station yesterday and asked one of the new sales girls (she had been there a month) how it was going. She replied that she was leaving to go to another job because “it was a better opportunity”. I asked her if the new job was doing work she really loved to do; she said, “Not really, it’s just a better opportunity”.

I wonder how many people out there drift from job to job, or start up a new business in search of the “better opportunity”? Millions people are unhappy with their businesses or jobs because they’ve given no thought of whether they are going to get out of bed each day excited about going to work. I would wager a tidy sum that if people would seek finding something to do for a living that they love to do, instead of searching for a “better opportunity” there would be a lot less absenteeism in the workplace.

According to an article By ROBERT O'NEILL in an Associated Press article: “Only 51 percent in America were satisfied with their jobs…”

I read a true story once that really brings home my claim that you will be much happier and do a much better job at work if you will pick something you love to do.