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Being happy means not needing to have a job.
100%
We never truly have a choice where to work unless we also have the choice not to work.
What about neither!
Can’t I just die in my sleep or something? Preferably soon?
Life says:
Fine. At least I have this basketball.
Pick a major you like and you’ll never work a day in your life. You’ll be unemployed.
I finally found a job that doesn’t make me completely miserable and pays fairly well, and it only took me until I was 34.
Not bad! Still 30 years or so to go…
Jobs don’t bring happiness. You might find laboring towards a goal satisfying, but don’t confuse that feeling with job satisfaction.
Depends on the person and the job. Thomas Edison loved his work to the point of being essentially addicted.
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.
You’re lucky.
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.
Naw, I get to determine that, thanks.
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?
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.
I’m doing my dream job and I feel like shit anyway. So I guess my dreams were a bit off.
This is what I worry about. What if I get everything I ever wanted and it’s still not enough? What is the point then?
then you try heroin, makes you feel like a million bucks /s
its the journey.
My problem is not exactly “not being enough”, but the fact that I feel overwhelmed by my job and my boss, maybe it’s just me and my chronic anxiety.
A job that let’s you enough free time to enjoy your hobbies.
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.
I take either one. pls.
Holy shit am i seriously the only one who has both?
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)
What’s the point of having money if it can’t make you happy?
Not dying now so I might be happy in the future?
The cope economy.
“Accept slavery now, but one day I might be a slave owner and not have to work”
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.
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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.
Out here on the left path looking around suspiciously.
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).
You guys are getting jobs?
