• clonedhuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      4 months ago

      100%

      We never truly have a choice where to work unless we also have the choice not to work.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    4 months ago

    Jobs don’t bring happiness. You might find laboring towards a goal satisfying, but don’t confuse that feeling with job satisfaction.

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Depends on the person and the job. Thomas Edison loved his work to the point of being essentially addicted.

    • lengau@midwest.social
      5·
      4 months ago

      My job is basically my hobby. I spend about 50 hours a week on my hobby - some of it structured for someone else, and some of it entirely for myself. The stuff for someone else is less fun, but still genuinely brings me joy.

        • lengau@midwest.social
          2·
          4 months ago

          Very much so. But it’s not purely luck. I turned down a job offer for significantly more money to take this one. Sometimes I momentarily regret it, but then I consider how happy I am and all regret evaporates.

      • clonedhuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 months ago

        How much actual power do you have in this regard?

        Did you get to choose your job? Can you also choose not to have a job?

        • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 months ago

          If we’re questioning the matter of free will or material circumstance, then that’s a separate conversation.

          But I get to choose whether I find joy in the job I chose and whether that amounts to job satisfaction. Yes. I’m allowed to find happiness in whatever I want.

  • Engywook@lemm.ee
    10·
    4 months ago

    I’m doing my dream job and I feel like shit anyway. So I guess my dreams were a bit off.

    • Engywook@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      I’d enjoy a job that actually ends at 5 PM, when you leave to go home and forget about it until the next day.

    • blady_blah@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      I think I’m lucky, but I also have both. I enjoy what I do and I make good money. They still have to pay me to do it, I wouldn’t do it for free, but overall I love it.

      (Engineering manager for R&D at a small / mid-sized company)

    • blady_blah@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      It’s really looking at a delayed gratification scenario. You hate working but make good money and then eventually you enjoy having money. In the end, it can be a lot of suffering for the long term money.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    4 months ago

    Here’s a secret: the left path doesn’t exist. I have a great job that I love the actual work of. But people and bullshit beyond the minutiae get in the way and make me unhappy. I suspect every job is like that, I cannot fathom anything that isn’t. I imagine any answer to the contrary is backed up by independent wealth or outside funding. But please prove me wrong. Give me hope.

    • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      4 months ago

      Here is some hope: You have a great job and you love the actual work! Some aspects of it are bullshit, some of the time at work you spend on mandatory bullshit, and bullshitters who detract from your happiness exist all around the world, in every industry. But: All that doesn’t completely cancel out the love you still have for your work - otherwise you wouldn’t have phrased it that way, would you? Also a slice of good news is, you have some degree of control over how much you let the shitty aspects cancel out the good things. Admittedly, the control is never 100%. And sometimes, the bullshit and frustration can get overwhelming and does have the power to tip the balance into a minus. That’s when it’s time to leave. Prepare to ge into a new, more rewarding field now. That will give you a choice when you feel the moment has come (probably it’s when you keep saying the above sentence to people in the past tense).