By David Williamson. This is the sixth and final post of a series. Calling suggests a spiritual foundation. Workers who experience their work as a calling are happier, and perform at a higher level. Dik and Duffy’s book Make Your Job a Calling provides helpful guidance for that process and a very useful addition the process of finding a job that…
By David Williamson. This is the fifth of a series. Much of Dik and Duffy”s book Make Your Job a Calling leads the reader to fulfill the title, starting out within the career discernment process. One of the ways in which this can happen is through “Serving Others,” the title of Chapter 5. Discovering how our job can in fact serve…
By David Williamson. This is the fourth of a series. A worker today is somewhat limited by the realities of the job market. A chapter on “Job Crafting” in Dik and Duffy’s Make Your Job A Calling helps the reader craft any job so it is more of an experience or expression of calling: Job crafting identifies those things that workers…
By David Williamson. This is the third of a series. In their book Make Your Job A Calling, Dik and Duffy address distortions in our approach to work, when we either make it merely a means or treat it as establishing personal value. If our job has some social status, we are ready, and even quick, to tell someone – almost…
By David Williamson. This is the second of a series. O God, the creator and preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou would be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for the holy church universal, that a it may…
By David Williamson. This is the first of a series. Interesting connection today: I was reading the beginning verses of Ephesians 4 and the word “called” stood out. Perhaps this is because I am reading Make Your Job a Calling by Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy. It got me looking back on my career as a pastor, my struggles with…
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