Reflective Journal Analysis

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This reflective journal task really gave me the space to sit back and think about the significance of meaning within work across the twenty years that I have been working, and especially the last six years of my employment in accounting. I consider myself as a service driven person, in that I get the most satisfaction from assisting people, whether that is in my professional or personal life. Svendsen (2016) describes time as a terrible burden when meaning is not found in the work that we do (Ch. 2, pg. 35) and I experienced exactly this when I took on a data entry job in 2000. This role offered me no opportunity for learning new information or any pathway to progress, and I recall unhappily watching the clock tick slowly by.

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