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by jodrellblank 6164 days ago
I don't know what I'd love to work on.

If you'd asked me a few years ago, the job I described then would be almost indistinguishable to the job I have now. But I don't enjoy it and feel:

a) I know this is a good job and I ought to be able to love it, there's something wrong with me.

b) If I feel this way about this, wouldn't I feel the same about any other job that seems good now, if I did get to do it?

c) Guilty that this is a good job and I'm not making the most of the great opportunities it's giving me.

I fear the kind of ant-in-a-massive-system job, such as "Legal Department E-mail Archive Storage Administrator" and I love the idea of "Independantly Wealthy Research Lab Owner" where I get to be involved in a lot of different things at a high level.

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