Do you do what you love for work?

[massphatness]

Love my job? No. But I do love the people I work with, and I cannot complain about the compensation. However, I am long past the point where I define myself by my job as you could seriously train a monkey to do what I do. I envy some of you who take great satisfaction in their professions and feel a sense of pride or accomplishment in a job well done. Those feelings are completely foreign to me. I'm at a point where in the not too distant future, a partnership opportunity may unfold, and truthfully all that will mean to me is more money in my pocket. That's great and all, but the job itself gives me no great satisfaction. Honestly, sometimes I feel trapped -- no one in their right mind would pay me a similar amount of money to do something I would really enjoy, so I stay for the paycheck. But at the office I am nothing more than an automaton -- good (extremely good, in fact) at what he does, but deriving zero satisfaction from it.


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I just re-read my post, and damn it seems depressing. It may be time for some liquid lunch.

[tsolomon]

Love my work, but got a new manager 18 months ago and he is all about "metrics" and proving to other people that we do work. I spend way too much of my time providing reports instead of getting the work done.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by massphatness

I just re-read my post, and damn it seems depressing. It may be time for some liquid lunch.

I'll join ya my brother!