Is wanting to enjoy your job an unrealistic expectation? Is anyone here truly happy with their job?

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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.

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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)

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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!!

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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.

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I enjoyed my job a lot when the pace used to be 50% of what it is today.

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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

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