Jemma Sbeg

Sometimes if you're in the trenches and one of your friends suddenly gets a great job whilst you've been working really hard and looking for way longer, it's very difficult not to resent them and resent your circumstances. Secondly, we can feel professional jealousy over someone else's sense of purpose.

So it's not just that they have a job or they have a career, but they have something that they really care about. And who amongst us doesn't want that? Having a purpose when it comes to our profession, I think turns a job into a career. Like a job is something that you can just do because it makes money.

So it's not just that they have a job or they have a career, but they have something that they really care about. And who amongst us doesn't want that? Having a purpose when it comes to our profession, I think turns a job into a career. Like a job is something that you can just do because it makes money.

So it's not just that they have a job or they have a career, but they have something that they really care about. And who amongst us doesn't want that? Having a purpose when it comes to our profession, I think turns a job into a career. Like a job is something that you can just do because it makes money.

A career and even bigger than that, a mission is something that you are personally invested in and there's like a fire in your belly. We know from repeated psychology studies in this area that this sense of purpose is linked to increased life satisfaction and sometimes even life expectancy and

A career and even bigger than that, a mission is something that you are personally invested in and there's like a fire in your belly. We know from repeated psychology studies in this area that this sense of purpose is linked to increased life satisfaction and sometimes even life expectancy and

A career and even bigger than that, a mission is something that you are personally invested in and there's like a fire in your belly. We know from repeated psychology studies in this area that this sense of purpose is linked to increased life satisfaction and sometimes even life expectancy and

So when you're in your 20s and it seems like everyone is slowly figuring out what they want to do and you haven't figured it out yet, you can feel really, really envious. I will say, I think the older we get, the more we realize that our profession or our career is not our primary sense of purpose in life. It's not the sole thing that can imbue your life with a sense of meaning.

So when you're in your 20s and it seems like everyone is slowly figuring out what they want to do and you haven't figured it out yet, you can feel really, really envious. I will say, I think the older we get, the more we realize that our profession or our career is not our primary sense of purpose in life. It's not the sole thing that can imbue your life with a sense of meaning.

So when you're in your 20s and it seems like everyone is slowly figuring out what they want to do and you haven't figured it out yet, you can feel really, really envious. I will say, I think the older we get, the more we realize that our profession or our career is not our primary sense of purpose in life. It's not the sole thing that can imbue your life with a sense of meaning.

So I know those statistics I just gave or like those findings seem kind of scary. Like, oh my God, are you telling me if I don't find my purpose, I'm going to die sooner? No, no, absolutely not. You have a lot of time to find your purpose. It's more that I think people struggle with thinking it's only going to come from a job.

So I know those statistics I just gave or like those findings seem kind of scary. Like, oh my God, are you telling me if I don't find my purpose, I'm going to die sooner? No, no, absolutely not. You have a lot of time to find your purpose. It's more that I think people struggle with thinking it's only going to come from a job.

So I know those statistics I just gave or like those findings seem kind of scary. Like, oh my God, are you telling me if I don't find my purpose, I'm going to die sooner? No, no, absolutely not. You have a lot of time to find your purpose. It's more that I think people struggle with thinking it's only going to come from a job.

The people who are truly happy realize that it comes from more than just that. But sometimes career can fulfill that need pretty early on in our lives before we've learned that lesson. Okay, finally, the final kind of bucket of envy is envy towards someone's progress, success, and the material things that they have been rewarded with.

The people who are truly happy realize that it comes from more than just that. But sometimes career can fulfill that need pretty early on in our lives before we've learned that lesson. Okay, finally, the final kind of bucket of envy is envy towards someone's progress, success, and the material things that they have been rewarded with.

The people who are truly happy realize that it comes from more than just that. But sometimes career can fulfill that need pretty early on in our lives before we've learned that lesson. Okay, finally, the final kind of bucket of envy is envy towards someone's progress, success, and the material things that they have been rewarded with.

You know the friend or the person online who you see and they are going on these amazing trips and they are suddenly buying nice clothes, nice dinners, winning awards. They've been promoted like three times before 25. They've bought a house from their job. These situations of material success, objective material wealth can serve as a very stark and a very tangible reminder of what we don't have.

You know the friend or the person online who you see and they are going on these amazing trips and they are suddenly buying nice clothes, nice dinners, winning awards. They've been promoted like three times before 25. They've bought a house from their job. These situations of material success, objective material wealth can serve as a very stark and a very tangible reminder of what we don't have.

You know the friend or the person online who you see and they are going on these amazing trips and they are suddenly buying nice clothes, nice dinners, winning awards. They've been promoted like three times before 25. They've bought a house from their job. These situations of material success, objective material wealth can serve as a very stark and a very tangible reminder of what we don't have.

Maybe I'm going to say this, of what we don't have yet. That's the other cruel part of career jealousy. All we can ever focus on is what we don't have right now, not what we've had in the past, not what we may have in the future. And we don't focus on what we actually don't want. You know, you might see someone who you're like immediately envious of, they're famous, they're successful.