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That's a good question. There have been times when my job made me happy, but I can't really say it's a consistent thing. To be honest, I no longer really expect my job to provide happiness. It provides money, and that means I can survive. Happiness and satisfaction come from elsewhere.
I literally love my job.. My perception has always been the best folks in their field are generally working on the things that interest them most? I mean.. all the folks I work with are at least somewhat known in our field and are passionate about advancing healthcare. I could be naive but many of my closest professional peers definitely love the work we do. We’re nerds for this stuff. Working on super high visibility / high impact projects. Cmon. There’s a reason I’m not dating.. I don’t have time I’m in love with the work (not kidding)
It should also be said that my clients, peers, etc. feel my genuine excitement and passion for the work. And my enjoyment of the work obvi has a ‘skyrocket’ effect on my performance/ delivery. It’s like assigning a research paper to two students: 1 student loves the topic; 1 student just wants to pass the class and is mentally knee-deep in the dating/ local music scene (both very fair!) — who’s research paper is going to be better?
I really encourage you to find something that interests you and create a brand for yourself around it. Take pride in it. Be known for it. Be good at it. Most of this stuff ain’t that hard!!
100%. But my path was painful, full of wrong steps, and now I get paid really really well to understand and solve people's problems. Less analytics, less engineering, less math, more strategy. I feel really really happy with where I've built my career. But if I were staying and just doing one thing, my entire life and thinking that would be fulfilling? Yeah, that would have been awful.
I enjoyed my job a lot when the pace used to be 50% of what it is today.
Happy is relative imo. If I won the lotto would I continue working at my job? Probably not. Would I be happier working somewhere else? Doubt it