Call me a nerd but work has been my life and the principal source of my life's meaning! I loved my work which was always challenging and inspiring. On those occasion when it wasn't, I didn't stay long.
I mean, if you're going to work all your life, it had better be something you like. If not, remember that they write tragedies about people like you.
If most people seem to view their work as some sort of Escher-like drudge, it may be because they are still working at jobs chosen for them by their sixteen-year-old selves. I chose my first job when I was 14. And the next one when I was 17. And again when I was 19. All up, I made well over fifty choices to keep me challenged and inspired.
Mind you, I may not have the last laugh because I have now been in my last "job" - retirement - for well over twenty years and my interests seem to be reduced to what's on the telly and what's for dinner.
