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by thrashtitan
1726 days ago
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It is good that the author is in a good space. I quit my dream job last October due to failing mental health arising from being forced to work inside a SCIF for a year. It was the most exciting job I have ever had. I did work with real world impacts. People literally lived and died based on the things we accomplished in there. Returning to the 'real world' outside of that realm, and I have never been as excited about work as I was then. Sure, I have gotten help and my mental state isnt in crisis anymore. But its not quite the same being on the 'outside' as it is when youre in the middle of above top secret projects that stretch every part of your capabilities. It is through the help I received I know I can never return to that world; it was what literally caused the issues I was having. I do regret quitting my dream job quite a lot. |
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IMO thinking that "having an impact will make me happy" is a fallacy, one of which bored corporate office drones often fell prey to.
As a counterexample, I present a biography of Jozef Czapski - an artist by calling, who became involved in setting up the administration for helping Polish citizens released from Gulags after 1941 (that's when Stalin became part of the anti-Germany alliance, and thus had to release Poles he put into Gulags earlier). It's interesting that his work never had greater impact (he was literally saving lives of thousands of people, who came to him starving, ill, without any money or a place to stay), but it was also the only time when he was seriously depressed. The work just didn't agree with him, he much preferred doing paintings, even if they had zero real-world impact.