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.
In my experience, every job eventually becomes a job you hate that just pays the bills.
So I have a job where I’m a therapist, and also I have a job where I support other therapists.
I also train therapists and I train the people who look after other therapists.
I’ve been doing this a lot. I love every day of it. I cannot imagine doing anything else with my life. And if I won the lottery, I would still want to keep doing it.
Can’t I just die in my sleep or something? Preferably soon?
Life says:
Fine. At least I have this basketball.
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.
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.
Pick a major you like and you’ll never work a day in your life. You’ll be unemployed.
I take either one. pls.
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.
You guys are getting jobs?
a job that makes you happy and money
Sounds wrong but is a correct and clever way to put it
“hybrid” meanwhile the job functioned perfectly fine from home during the ole’ panny
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.
I’ve been working on weekends for a few months not because I have to (or Im pressured into it), but because it’s a really interesting project and I’m having a great time figuring it out.
Out here on the left path looking around suspiciously.
