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    71 month ago

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

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        21 month 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?

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          130 days 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.

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      31 month ago

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

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          230 days ago

          He was also a prolific inventor that worked tirelessly to help give us the telegraph and the lightbulb.

          He’s certainly a controversial man.

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      71 month 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.

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          21 month 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.