Comments on: How I Created My Dream Job

By: Lonna El-Talabani

Lonna El-Talabani — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:54:35 +0000

God has been evesdropping on my conversations. Yesterday I met with a new friend who was discussing “wanting a dream job”. Today, I decided to search through Wordpress blog christian and found this. Insperational and timely. I sent it to her.

By: Geneva Murphy

Geneva Murphy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:02:47 +0000

This is priceless!
While my dream “job” is actually by biz right now, these principles are applicble in any area of our lives.
I especially like #4-#7 tips.
Thanks so much ( special thanks to Justin for posting link)

By: Will Mancini

Will Mancini — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:19:30 +0000

I love this story Justin, thanks for sharing the bold move. Great example of leaving the good behind to pursue God’s best! Also, thanks to the other comments…very robust and helpful thoughts!

By: Justin Lathrop

Justin Lathrop — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:28:21 +0000

This is a great post Will! “Most dream jobs are CREATED not found.”

I’ll never forget writing the job description for the “dream job” that I have now. I made an appointment with my pastor and handed him three documents:
1. My resignation as Young Adult pastor
2. A resume for my replacement
3. The job description for what I wanted to do.

Although I don’t recommend this move for everyone, it has changed my life forever.

By: Ben Wiles

Ben Wiles — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:56:06 +0000

Thanks so much for this great post. One thing that you said that I would like to repeat here:

“Never stop applying the gospel to your heart, so that your pursuit of a dream job is a response to God’s grace not a pursuit of self-righteousness.”

I love this because there are people in the church that believe it would be selfish for them to talk about pursuing their dreams. But if we continually apply the gospel to our lives and walk in humility before the Lord, He will deal with those character issues that would make it a selfish pursuit. In that context, it is my personal view that it is selfish of us NOT to pursue our God-given dreams and live out the life He created us to live. Whether it is in the church or the marketplace we can live out our call to discipleship and evangelism in a way that gives us great joy and personal fulfillment. Anything else is less than what God would want for us.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:43:35 +0000

great post, very true on many accounts. This in a way is the opposite of how the church teaches career paths….you can see that in your post you didn’t use the word ‘calling’. I don’t believe that the current use of the word in today’s church aligns with scripture in the slightest. Our call is the gospel, love Christ, etc…thats what the bible speaks to. It doesn’t say whether to be a CEO or a janitor, it’s a corporate call that christians have stripped down to a personal call, which exists, but is not normative. We have believed a selfish gospel which has started us on a quest for a dream job that has no end.