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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?
The cope economy.
“Accept slavery now, but one day I might be a slave owner and not have 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.
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.
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)
I enjoy my current job but the management and benefits suck badly enough that I’ll be hopping away ASAP.
My last job paid a bit less than they ideally should have but was super chill, had amazing management and was super flexible, but their new owners laid everyone off to relocate the HQ
I’m currently negotiating with my old boss as they want to bring me back so we’ll see if I can make this all work out in my favor…
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!
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!
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…
Can’t I just die in my sleep or something? Preferably soon?
Life says:
Fine. At least I have this basketball.
I could but for some reason sucking dick for money is illegal 🤷🏻♂️
I feel like to truly make you happy, a job has to pay your bills
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.
