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Bruh, I just had an interview with AMD today. Fingers crossed, because it is literally my dream job.
Good luck!! We’re all rooting for you! That sounds like a lot of fun!
I'd be in their lab, reworking customer reference boards, working directly under one of their engineers. I never got the chance to go to college, and to get to this point is amazing. I'm deeply passionate about tech, and I'm super excited about this opportunity.
That sounds amazing! Good luck and I’m sure you’ll get the job!
May the shitposts be with you!
In my experience, every job eventually becomes a job you hate that just pays the bills.
So I have a job where I'm a therapist, and also I have a job where I support other therapists.
I also train therapists and I train the people who look after other therapists.
I've been doing this a lot. I love every day of it. I cannot imagine doing anything else with my life. And if I won the lottery, I would still want to keep doing it.
Move on before it becomes a job you hate. I've made that mistake before and I don't care to repeat it.
I'm 2 years into my current job and it still genuinely excites me to start work each day. When it no longer does, I'll be looking for a new job.
Fuck. This is true. There are no dream jobs.
Nah, there are dream jobs, reality just has this unfortunate habit of imposing itself on your dreams. The result being that even dream jobs can suck because of the bullshit that goes along with them.
Being happy means not needing to have a job.
100%
We never truly have a choice where to work unless we also have the choice not to work.
I finally found a job that doesn't make me completely miserable and pays fairly well, and it only took me until I was 34.
Not bad! Still 30 years or so to go...
Pick a major you like and you'll never work a day in your life. You'll be unemployed.
What about neither!
I could but for some reason sucking dick for money is illegal 🤷🏻♂️
Can't I just die in my sleep or something? Preferably soon?
Life says:
Jobs don't bring happiness. You might find laboring towards a goal satisfying, but don't confuse that feeling with job satisfaction.
My job is basically my hobby. I spend about 50 hours a week on my hobby - some of it structured for someone else, and some of it entirely for myself. The stuff for someone else is less fun, but still genuinely brings me joy.
You're lucky.
Naw, I get to determine that, thanks.
How much actual power do you have in this regard?
Did you get to choose your job? Can you also choose not to have a job?
Depends on the person and the job. Thomas Edison loved his work to the point of being essentially addicted.
Thomas Edison was a narcissistic hole, who helped kill an elephant.
I'm doing my dream job and I feel like shit anyway. So I guess my dreams were a bit off.
This is what I worry about. What if I get everything I ever wanted and it's still not enough? What is the point then?
Protip: it's never going to be enough. Your brain has this neat trick it does where it acclimates to a new normal after a while, so eventually you're right back to where you were, wanting more and better things.
Find something in your life that brings you happiness, that's a lot easier than chasing happiness through the employment you're forced to have if you want to survive in this shit hole.
its the journey.
My problem is not exactly "not being enough", but the fact that I feel overwhelmed by my job and my boss, maybe it's just me and my chronic anxiety.
I take either one. pls.
I feel like to truly make you happy, a job has to pay your bills
Holy shit am i seriously the only one who has both?
I enjoy my current job but the management and benefits suck badly enough that I'll be hopping away ASAP.
My last job paid a bit less than they ideally should have but was super chill, had amazing management and was super flexible, but their new owners laid everyone off to relocate the HQ
I'm currently negotiating with my old boss as they want to bring me back so we'll see if I can make this all work out in my favor...
You guys are getting jobs?
a job that makes you happy and money
Sounds wrong but is a correct and clever way to put it
I need to make a meme out of this, combined with the situation when realized that I had already, unknowingly, made that decision to be broke more than twenty years ago when realized I'd make a great teacher, and started going down that career path.
Here’s a secret: the left path doesn’t exist. I have a great job that I love the actual work of. But people and bullshit beyond the minutiae get in the way and make me unhappy. I suspect every job is like that, I cannot fathom anything that isn’t. I imagine any answer to the contrary is backed up by independent wealth or outside funding. But please prove me wrong. Give me hope.
I've been working on weekends for a few months not because I have to (or Im pressured into it), but because it's a really interesting project and I'm having a great time figuring it out.
Here is some hope: You have a great job and you love the actual work! Some aspects of it are bullshit, some of the time at work you spend on mandatory bullshit, and bullshitters who detract from your happiness exist all around the world, in every industry. But: All that doesn't completely cancel out the love you still have for your work - otherwise you wouldn't have phrased it that way, would you? Also a slice of good news is, you have some degree of control over how much you let the shitty aspects cancel out the good things. Admittedly, the control is never 100%. And sometimes, the bullshit and frustration can get overwhelming and does have the power to tip the balance into a minus. That's when it's time to leave. Prepare to ge into a new, more rewarding field now. That will give you a choice when you feel the moment has come (probably it's when you keep saying the above sentence to people in the past tense).
Out here on the left path looking around suspiciously.
What's the point of having money if it can't make you happy?
Not dying now so I might be happy in the future?
The cope economy.
"Accept slavery now, but one day I might be a slave owner and not have to work"
A job that let's you enough free time to enjoy your hobbies.
I'd enjoy a job that actually ends at 5 PM, when you leave to go home and forget about it until the next day.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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