Before I changed careers and when I was feeling pretty stuck, I landed on a great book by John Spencer Williams called F**k Work, Let's Play. It completely reframed work to me and helped me shake off a lot of the weightiness I was carrying around about "career" - even though, if I'm honest, I still didn't truly believe that kind of playful work-life was possible for me.
Recently, I stumbled on an interview with John by Suzy Walker in the Metro and it reminded me how far I've come in the past ten years.
Most of the time, I genuinely feel like I get paid to do what I love. It still feels like work, but the whole idea of what work is has shifted for me.
I get to experiment, to explore deep ideas with my clients, to be very silly with my brilliant colleagues at Careershifters and I get to choose how I spend my time each day (including a good amount of time messing about with my three year old!).
So yes, the lines between work and play have most definitely become a whole lot more blurry. I’ve also seen from the clients I’ve worked with how valuable it can be to bring a more playful approach to their career changes, as I wrote about in an earlier blog post.
What do you think? Do you believe that work (or indeed career change) can feel like play, or does that seem too far-fetched for you right now?
Blurring the lines between work and play