What does a career mean these days? for me it is a way to pay my bills, cover my wife and I with health insurance, and a way to hang out with folks I like. But beyond that, it is not a good use of my time. My talents are not fully utilized and my sense of self is not fulfilled by the demands of my boss.
I have often thought that the answer to all of life's little annoyances--jobs being one of them--can be addressed with the simple solution of immense wealth. Sort of a welfare system for 330 million or so Americans. The downside of it is damnable free will. If we didn't need to work, would we ever do anything productive or helpful to our fellow human beings?
The next best thing is doing work that is satisfying and pays adequately. I have had a job like that twice--this one and my last one. The only problem is that satisfaction, as I expressed earlier, dissipates. That is why I generally have a two year career goal. Unfortunately I have not evaluated this goal in 5 years.
I'll have to work on that.
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