[wkat4242]

Oh no I don't consider my job a rat race at all. I live in Europe so we have a lot of safeguards against getting fired.

My job is kinda boring and it's not too challenging. I probably can do my weekly work in one day a week so I'm far from stressed. I also don't have any ambition for a higher-level job because this one pays enough to get by. I work in IT (in house) as architect. My yearly reviews are still above average. So I'm pretty good :)

[the_70x]

Are you sure you're not competitive or ambitious, even though you are above average?

[lWaterboardCats]

You can still take pride in the quality of work without being competitive or ambitious

Where I live, the culture has lost that sense of pride and it’s awful. Things are expensive and the quality of service/product I get in return is awful.

My point being, competition and ambition aren’t correlated to the quality of work delivered.