For the past few weeks as I border on the edge of exhaustion and fatigue of pressing in on a successful career in sales, I find myself going to bed and waking up with a sense of discontentment. A feeling that has caused me to question, “what am I doing this all for?”

Come to find out, the empty feeling exists due primarily to the fact that if you ask me what my passion is, I couldn’t tell you. I can’t quite put my finger on what really makes me tick or what I really love to do. I don’t even know what I enjoy doing.

So rather than working and doing what I “WANT” to do, I have been doing only what I think that I “SHOULD” be doing. A stark contrast when it comes to motivation.

Work without passion is mere monotony and leads to exhaustion and failure. With this in mind I begin a journey to find my true passion.

BusinessWise briefs: Curbing employee theft
“Ninety-five percent of all businesses experience employee theft and management is seldom aware of the loss. . . examples include employees padding time sheets” Read more.

My $.02 : 95%?  That may be high.  Business owners are some of the sharpest tools in the shed.  How would 95% of them miss employees stealing right out from under their noses?

Judge supports firing of Jim Thorpe officer
“A judge has upheld the firing of a Jim Thorpe police officer who officials said falsified time sheets giving him an extra 33.5 hours of pay.” Read more.

My $.02: 33.5 hours is almost an entire weeks worth of work, do you suppose this was a one time shot or something that’s been going on for some time and the officer finally got sloppy?  

Balancing Cost and Service Quality
“For a profession that already labours under the strain of being targeted to achieve near-perfection, performing difficult balancing acts is nothing new in payroll. On the one hand, it strives to deliver 100% accuracy, 100% timeliness, 100% compliance and high-quality employee service. On the other, it attempts to do so within tough budget constraints . . .Potential investments to improve the quality of data input include: Automating time data collection – for example, by implementing Time and Attendance Systems for hourly-paid employees, or time tracking systems for hourly-charging employees” Read more.

My $.02: It is articles like these that make me wonder just how accurate, timely, compliant and employee service  based the majority of payroll departments are.  I across companies everyday that have been using paper time sheets and have been completely content with them.  (Meanwhile paper time sheets are not 100% accurate, timely compliant OR employee service based)  Where’s the disconnect?