Nothing is Wrong

Ask most people how work is going and you get a complaint or a highlight reel. Some people give you neither. They say "fine", and they mean it.Maybe that is you, the pay is good, the team is decent, you are quick at the job now and people rely on you. Nothing is wrong.It has been fine for about two years.Last week I wrote that nothing happens at your desk, and that the only thing counting as progress is a move. Something involving another person, with a date on it, that can be turned down. Plenty of people read that, agreed with it, and did nothing at all. Not for want of bravery. Nothing hurt enough to start.Fine is a sedativeCareer change usually runs on discomfort. A bad manager. A missed promotion. A restructure. Something that the algorithm defines as 'The Sunday scaries'. Discomfort bills you daily until you act on it.Fine doesn't send you a bill. No date by which this has to be resolved, no incident to point at, nothing you could reasonably explain over dinner. So the decision…