I hope I will like this profession. Sometimes, I just don’t know. but at least I did something about my goal today!
How to get a job I like
It made me
Oh ya baby 
"Should have commited to change long before I felt I had to have it"
How I did it: A short answer would be become misserable with the job I had. Find some time away from it. Go back and see clearly - I need change - here or elsewhere as long as I get on with it. New opportunity - take it.
I worked several jobs for several years and become pretty burned out. I quit one job because my mate and my doctor said I had to. - yikes.
the second full time job I lingered on with for some time (2 years). It took that long i guess to realize for certain tha the way the job and my boss contributed to how I felt was no longer OK. I went away for 10 weeks vacation to learn to build eco homes. During that time I realized that it is tough to enjoy all the great things in life when you spent 8 - 24 hours a day stapled to your work. I went back. to work. Laid out what I needed, how I expected to be treated, what I would and would not deal with any longer. My boss got all upeddy, I did not budge on my stand and was willing to make an issue of the circumstances I was experiencing.
I was ready to leave the agency, then a latteral tranfer to another department came up. The manager there was happy to have me. The staff I supervise there I get along with. My boss loves my work. MY staff love my work, and the agency loves my work.
I love my job - everything about it - it is challenging and very rewarding. I watch my ex-coworker in the old department dealing with the same old crap and can see really clearly from a distance how miserable I was.
Lessons & tips: Know what you want
know what you will take
know what you are willing to do to get what you need and what you are willing to trade off to get what you want.
take time away to see your situation clearly
all the good that time off does for your state of mind has a half life of 3 hours apparently, then 3 days, 3 weeks etc. so if you want change and are motiveated get at it before you get trapped again
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