Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
I can appreciate your dilemma. I'm just saying, happiness comes from within, whether you are a brain surgeon or the guy who wheels the patients out of surgery (like someone we know) or a dirt farmer or a corporate exec. The job, the career won't make you happy. You have to do that.
It is true --how one views their job to earn money.

I think it also depends on the level of "risk" that one wishes to/can afford to take to try something different also.

And "risk" is something combined with unpredictable life opportunities in terms of timing in one's life, how one hears about certain jobs or just being at right time, right place.

I also believe that there are many types of jobs people aren't aware of their existence.

One thing for certain, I am so glad I never worked for 1 employer for the past 1/4 century. For myself, I would have become a more cocooning type. I'm the type of person that needs to parachute myself into completely different workplace cultures over time, without much advance planning. I'm a better person in general for this.

If I know too much in advance, if I plan too much in decision-making for my life's journey ...I end up procrastinating way too long...

What I can say in general for the path I have taken work-wise...is I have learned SO MUCH ..not the book facts, but how people think and try to problem-solve in different ways, how different subject disciplines intersect/interconnect one another, etc. and how to hone one's brain to razor sharp alertness to think simultaneously in a logical but creative way in a very limited time period. Often people observing what you are doing.

And how to learn to be imperfect in front of group of people --with flair and curious confidence to pursue right answer in front of them.