I strayed away from finance/research and ran with a lucrative textbook dropshipping business that evolved into an online consignment store once dropshipping strategies began to fail. My heart was never in it despite good income at first. Ended up hanging in too long and filing for bankruptcy. Got back into market research as an intern for $1000 per month for 10 months (10yrs after I graduated from school.) Tough times, but worked my ass off and proved myself and finally was hired on full time. I absolutely love what I do today; it rarely feels like work.
Generally, yes. The salary and benefits are good. The hours range from busy to outright hellacious, so burn out comes and goes, but that is pretty standard in the IT side of the financial sector. Is it my "dream job"? Probably not, but I can think of a ton of less rewarding (both financially and otherwise) was to make a living.
If we are discussing job yes, it's ok, but it's not my life passion. When I realized what it was I was already with obligations, so it's fairly hard for me to change. I would love to be working in the sports area.
The key is to not only have passion for what you do, but to also be doing an activity that is aligned with your strengths, while providing enough income to support your desired lifestyle. For many, as personal wealth increases the desire to give to others becomes the most rewarding activity.
This is the feeling that accompanies me too, stability brings peace of mind and at this point in my life that is what I need, something stable and not worrying about tomorrow.
Not quite, but I don't think I can make it any better, haha. I'm making most of my money on the Internet, and it only barely pays for bills, but you know... hope dies last, haha. I'm currently looking forward to discovering more opportunities of making money, which I found the perfect forum for here.
I'm a student. The job I had sucked so no, i hated what I did. I did not want to be stuck in a toxic environment that was all work, low pay, and offered little room for growth.
The oddest thing about job satisfaction is where you find it. One of the jobs I enjoyed the most was working in a hospital kitchen as pretty much the all-around guy, washing dishes, cleaning ovens and fryers, the works. Did everything except cook and serve, really. It was awful most times but I never hated that job. I could be elbow-deep in a deep fryer cleaning out sludge all morning but when I got off I felt accomplished. I made next to nothing, there. I later got a job that payed nearly twice as much, in customer service. Lasted a month. Couldn't stand it, even though I seldom had to do more than distribute returns or help people find items. Customer service is soul-crushing. Where I'm at now, I really don't know. Got a few medical problems keeping me from working any jobs I'd like to have, but I make money speculating a bit and doing odd work. I suppose I'm more depressed now than I ever have been before. It'll pass, though. We all do things we don't like and we all see better days down the road.
