What really brought me happiness rarely had anything to do with conventional ideas of success. Mostly, it was due to things totally unconnected with my work. Of course, I was sometimes happy at work too. When I was busy doing something that I enjoyed and made me happy, I was often amazingly successful. When I tried to be successful, and accepted temporary unhappiness and boredom as its price, I rarely managed to reach my goals. If I accepted short-term unhappiness as the price of long-term success—and I very often did—what I got in return was the opposite: short-term success paid for with long-term unhappiness.
Here's the hard question: What makes me genuinely happy?
"Man is that he might have joy."
But There is another question lurking in the background all the time, for me since providing for my family is a big deal to me right now, Could I monazite it somehow?
"Do what you love, money will follow" is something I came across somewhere.
I enjoy researching and information gathering and creating something out of the combination.
I enjoy cooking, but I've seen enough of the Food Network to realize that opening a restaurant is a really big deal and would need more then I am physically able, though a partner could help there.
I love reading but doing book reviews all the time would likely make me hate reading like the guy who was a fishing equipment reviewer who was so ready to retire so he could do something fun and relaxing.
I am pretty good at getting technology to work, but now I am tired of fiddling with it just to be able to get to work. I love Mac since it works just fine most of the time.
This deserves some thought.
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