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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.
Pick a major you like and you’ll never work a day in your life. You’ll be unemployed.
A job that let’s you enough free time to enjoy your hobbies.
Facts. I have a job right now where I work 8 hours Friday then 16 and 16 Saturday Sunday. But for the rest of the week I’m completely off I could do whatever I want.
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.
What’s the point of having money if it can’t make you happy?
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.
Not dying now so I might be happy in the future?
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.
Move on before it becomes a job you hate. I’ve made that mistake before and I don’t care to repeat it.
I’m 2 years into my current job and it still genuinely excites me to start work each day. When it no longer does, I’ll be looking for a new job.
Fuck. This is true. There are no dream jobs.
Nah, there are dream jobs, reality just has this unfortunate habit of imposing itself on your dreams. The result being that even dream jobs can suck because of the bullshit that goes along with them.
Bruh, I just had an interview with AMD today. Fingers crossed, because it is literally my dream job.
Good luck!! We’re all rooting for you! That sounds like a lot of fun!
I’d be in their lab, reworking customer reference boards, working directly under one of their engineers. I never got the chance to go to college, and to get to this point is amazing. I’m deeply passionate about tech, and I’m super excited about this opportunity.
That sounds amazing! Good luck and I’m sure you’ll get the job!
May the shitposts be with you!
What about neither!
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.
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.
Depends on the person and the job. Thomas Edison loved his work to the point of being essentially addicted.
Thomas Edison was a narcissistic hole, who helped kill an elephant.
He was also a prolific inventor that worked tirelessly to help give us the telephone and the lightbulb.
He’s certainly a controversial man.
He was also a prolific inventor that worked tirelessly to help give us the telegraph
Definitely not. The first telegraph was built by Francos Ronalds, about 30 years before Edison’s birth. Gauss/Weber built another one 1833. Morse and Vail introduced electromagnetic relays in 1838, enabling signals to travel beyond short distances.
and the lightbulb.
Arguably. He may made the first commercially viable lightbulb, but not the first overall. Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, James Bowman Lindsay, Warren de la Rue and William Staite all played a role.
Whoops meant to say helped give us the telephone
Specifically was talking about this
"It was Alexander Graham Bell who patented the telephone in 1876. But Edison, with his knack for building upon others’ innovations, found a way to improve Bell’s transmitter, which was limited in how far apart phones could be by weak electrical current. Edison got the idea of using a battery to provide current on the phone line and to control its strength by using carbon to vary the resistance.
To do that, he designed a transmitter in which a small piece of lampblack (a black carbon made from soot) was placed behind the diaphragm. When someone spoke into the phone, the sound waves moved the diaphragm, and the pressure on the lampblack changed. Edison later replaced the lampblack with granules made from coal—a basic design that was used until the 1980s."
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 feel like to truly make you happy, a job has to pay your bills
I take either one. pls.
“hybrid” meanwhile the job functioned perfectly fine from home during the ole’ panny
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?
its the journey.
Protip: it’s never going to be enough. Your brain has this neat trick it does where it acclimates to a new normal after a while, so eventually you’re right back to where you were, wanting more and better things.
Find something in your life that brings you happiness, that’s a lot easier than chasing happiness through the employment you’re forced to have if you want to survive in this shit hole.
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.
then you try heroin, makes you feel like a million bucks /s
