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by el_dev_hell
1978 days ago
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> Essentially I want to invest all my savings in finding a job that I like That's a very interesting distillation. It seems like you've already decided it's possible to find life "meaning" at work. Like other comments have mentioned, you've provided no information as to what "meaningful" looks like to you. I have a friend/former colleague that hated work. We would complain in the lunchroom together about the insanity of cooperate life. I quit the job for an equally insane (but much better paying) role. A few years later, we caught up for a beer. He quit a few months after I did and got a job with the local government maintaining a wetland area near a large city. He was getting paid 65K per year and absolutely loved the work more than anything. He loved the fact he was actively saving something everyday and wasn't in an office. Other than the above friend, I know exactly zero other people IRL that claim to have get significant "meaning" from work. Including myself. |
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I have decided that the search for meaning at work is meaningful on its own even if I end up never finding a meaningful job. This is because I believe while searching for meaning in work I would have to try out new type of jobs through which I would discover more of me in general. But from a practical point of view I indeed believe that a person that is actively searching for a meaningful job will find it. >A few years later, we caught up for a beer. He quit a few months after I did and got a job with the local government maintaining a wetland area near a large city. He was getting paid 65K per year and absolutely loved the work more than anything. He loved the fact he was actively saving something everyday and wasn't in an office.
Other than the above friend, I know exactly zero other people IRL that claim to have get significant "meaning" from work. Including myself.
Thanks for sharing this!