[tasuki]

Not OP. Just optimize for happiness instead of money. I earn ten times less now than I used to. I work half the time and am twice as happy.

(I work for a small local business in Eastern Europe, ten(ish) people, we don't earn much, but get a lot of freedom and the atmosphere at work is very nice)

[deanmoriarty]

What if you literally can’t think of a work position that would make you happy? Just talking out loud and not expecting an answer from you, but that’s just what was going on in my head while reading your comment.

Perhaps I am too burned out, but I couldn’t imagine feeling happy working with a team, an manager and hard problems.

Probably my “happy” job would consist in full agency with no managers, no peers to veto or judge or comment or compete on/with my work, extremely low intellectual requirements, part-time time commitment at best, and wages good enough to still make it objectively worth my time compared to my portfolio (shared a lot more context in another comment on this thread).

I understand all this might be a tad unrealistic, so just venting.