I smiled at my job for 3 years. It was tech support, over the phone. No the customers weren’t better than what you usually hear, in fact I eventually became the next tier up and got the BS calls.
I definitely felt my face muscles at the end of the day, but the smiling wasn’t ever fake, and you can know that for sure because I wasn’t ever required to do it, it just helped.
As long as you still feel its your dream job, as long as you have a real reason to smile, it won’t become fake, even after a few years of doing it. If you lose that reason, it becomes more work to smile, and that work will tire you out, and only then will it be exhausting.
If 3 years of IT (Which, I quit eventually because it sucked) couldn’t take my smile because I do like helping people, then I dont think an actual dream job will ever steal it.
I smiled at my job for 3 years. It was tech support, over the phone. No the customers weren’t better than what you usually hear, in fact I eventually became the next tier up and got the BS calls.
I definitely felt my face muscles at the end of the day, but the smiling wasn’t ever fake, and you can know that for sure because I wasn’t ever required to do it, it just helped.
As long as you still feel its your dream job, as long as you have a real reason to smile, it won’t become fake, even after a few years of doing it. If you lose that reason, it becomes more work to smile, and that work will tire you out, and only then will it be exhausting.
If 3 years of IT (Which, I quit eventually because it sucked) couldn’t take my smile because I do like helping people, then I dont think an actual dream job will ever steal it.