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I Prayed for This Job… Now I Resent It: The Vocational Drift

You didn’t start out hating your job.

You might’ve even begged God for it.

You asked Him to open a door.

He did.

You walked through it with gratitude, fire, and big dreams.

But somewhere between the emails, the deadlines, the ministry demands, the bills, and everybody else’s expectations… something shifted.

You’re still showing up.

You still get the work done.

But now:

• You’re burned out more than you’re grateful.
• You’re using work to avoid what you don’t want to feel.
• You feel guilty resting and anxious working.
• You don’t know where your job ends and your identity begins.

That’s vocational drift:

when your work slowly shifts from being an expression of your calling

to becoming your identity, your addiction, or your prison.

In this episode of The Drift Series, we talk about:

• How The Numbing Drift and Vocational Drift are often twins
   (some of us numb with screens, some of us numb with success).
• The subtle signs you’re living in vocational drift:
   
  • chronic burnout you’ve normalized,
  • resentment where there used to be gratitude,
  • work becoming your main source of worth,
  • using the grind as “holy-looking” escape.
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• The difference between calling, career, and cage.
• Why work was God’s idea, but it was never meant to be your god.
• How to tell if you’re in the wrong place… or just in the right place with the wrong posture.
• A practical Vocational Audit to help you process:
   
  • your gratitude,
  • your grief,
  • your gifts,
  • and where God might be guiding you next.
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This episode is for you if:

• You’re tired, resentful, or numb in a job you once thanked God for.
• You feel guilty even thinking about changing lanes.
• You secretly feel more “at home” at work than you do with God or your own family.
• You’ve started to believe, “This is just adult life. This is as good as it gets.”

You don’t have to quit tomorrow.

You don’t need a hyper-spiritual dream to validate your next move.

But you do need to stop drifting.

God cares about:

• your work,
• your rest,
• your soul,
• and the kind of person your job is turning you into.

🧭 Live by Design Spotlight:

We’ll walk through a guided Vocational Audit you can journal through after the episode to start re-aligning your work life with how God actually designed you.

🔍 Design Check-In Questions:

At the end, I’ll give you reflective questions to help you discern:

“Am I working by default… or by design?”

Because you weren’t created to just grind.

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