Ask HN: Do you love what you are doing right now?

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by shail • 13 years ago

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If you had all the money in the world, would you still be doing what you are doing right now?

I am curious how many of us are actually living their dream.

senthadev• 13 years ago

In a public toilet, a cleaner is mopping the floor. And a new start-up owner enters in: Start-up owner (in his mind):poor guy, has to do this worse job to earn money. Cleaner (in his mind):I'm so happy that my job is helping people to have a good health buy keeping this toilet clean.

Same job, different perspective.

japhyr• 13 years ago

I am a high school teacher. I love what I do, but the 40+ hour work week is not very satisfying. If I had all the money in the world I'd teach half-time, with some extended breaks to hike the PCT etc.

I am working on some side projects to hopefully be able to teach just for fun. That said, I'm pretty satisfied in my day to day work. I wish I could get paid for the quality of my work, but I don't trust any existing pay-for-performance scheme in education. I count myself as fortunate to understand programming well enough that I can do some side projects that might supplement my income meaningfully.

onlyup• 13 years ago

If I won the lotto and I was able to keep it a secret, I would stay in my current job for the learning opportunities.

After a while, I'd start my own company though.

Ask HN: Do you love what you are doing right now?

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