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Originally Posted by keg in kc
As for Jilly's other questions:
Are you doing what you love to do work wise? No. I've yet to encounter something I love to do. And I really hate working, too. The whole concept of it. But you gotta keep a roof over your head.
Are you doing things you are passionate about? No, similar to work that I love, I've never come across anything that I feel anything about, much less passion.
Do you value your mind and do you do things to stimulate it? Yes.
Are you laughing and smiling? Yes.
I'm hoping that writing becomes that 'work that I love'/'thing that I'm passionate about', but right now it's an exercise in resistance. It's very hard, and I tend to migrate towards the path of least resistance. So it's going to be a long, hard fight against myself and my tendencies. And the reality is it's something that I dreamed about/thought about/talked about for a ****ing DECADE, so the odds of it actually going anywhere are slim.
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I would say those first two issues lead to the majority of people's dissatisfaction with life. So many people have just gotten stuck in their job without any hope of getting out. Part of me thinks this lay off thing for some folks might be a good thing for the world, because it might just help people start doing what they feel good doing. I guarantee EVERYONE has a passion for something and if you can get that passion to correlate to your job, that's happiness right there.
I think that working out, etc, is great, but that one's probably the easiest of the goals to realize. I think the others take way more strength, creativity and courage.