Are you awake?

[Sacred Fool]

Nothing will apparently change by being 'awakened'.

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
-- Zen Proverb

What will change is one might not be attached too much on the actual the result of chopping wood and carrying water.

I can see why a person might think that nothing apparent will change, but I don't believe it is accurate.  One's particular activities are immaterial.  (I usually cut a couple of cords of firewood per year, btw.)  Terms like "enlightenment" are notoriously ambiguous, but when one's unconscious becomes aligned the conscious self and these become aligned with one's spirit helpers and are aimed towards doing the sort of work that one came her to do, from what I've been given to understand, the change is not a linear, more attached, less attached kind of thing.  It's an exponential jump into a completely reorganized and updated energy system as the heart becomes the focal point instead of the solar plexus.  One's relationships with the Earth, fellow travelers, spirit guides, all of these change.  There's no way they could not change.