Work and the pursuit of happiness

[-HvA-]

Very good read that might resonate with a lot of people here:
Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that’s bad for work and workers.

[Jeffrey Borisch]

History is written by the victors, no?

Transcendence is knowing what you can do given all your circumstances in this time and place and learning to be at peace with that. Loving something enough does not make you good at it, nor does doing a mundane job that you are overqualified for make you less of a person.

If you are in the right time and right place and have an opportunity to exploit your "passions", great. If not, "that's bike racing" as they say. I'm not suggesting complacency AT ALL, rather learn how to be comfortable in your own skin and seek forward progress.

I learned all this from my wife.

[Rich Beaudoin]

That is an interesting article.
I think about it often because I don't love my job - but I am very good at it and employers are willing to pay me acceptably well for what I do. I have said many times that I would do what I love IF my wife supported me financially or if we were independently wealthy.
The fact is that the economy would grind to a stop if it depended on only the 'lovable' jobs.
And, speaking as a former bike industry worker, doing what you love can turn what you love doing into tedious work.

[Saab2000]

That is an interesting article.
I think about it often because I don't love my job - but I am very good at it and employers are willing to pay me acceptably well for what I do. I have said many times that I would do what I love IF my wife supported me financially or if we were independently wealthy.
The fact is that the economy would grind to a stop if it depended on only the 'lovable' jobs.
And, speaking as a former bike industry worker, doing what you love can turn what you love doing into tedious work.

Thank you for saying this! I'm good at what I do too. I fit well into my industry for the most part. But I sure as heck don't love it.

At this point I remain in it largely for the money because I'd much rather have time to ride and enjoy doing things I used to do.

For me now it's an exercise in money making and money management and nothing more than that.

[alexstar]

I said this on the Face Book, but I'll reiterate it here: If work was nothing but fun, it would be called "play" and we wouldn't get paid for it.

I like my job, that is enough. My modest income allows me to spend some of my spare time doing what I actually love.

[RickM]

There's a reason why they call it Work.
There's a reason why they pay you to do it.