work because I want to, not because I have to

:(, me too.

Got an interview on this coming Wednesday. ON MY WAY to this goal.

Every year I do my taxes I usually have between 8-14 W2’s to file because I quit and I HATE the majority of the jobs I’ve had.
I’m now old enough to know I don’t EVER have to do this again. I am not a victim of the system and am doing what I need to do to have a fulfilling job that I choose. I will NEVER compromise this again.
Best of luck to everyone who wants to make this goal a reality. Very few things in life can drain you like going to a miserable job day in and day out.

“Money often costs too much”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Right! To work which gives a little bit of passion instead only a little bit of money!

It’s only a part-time job, and I will have to leave it altogether next year (I will cry!) but the experience has been so gratifying and incredibly worth it!

It’s great to go to work looking forward to it, and enjoying the people I’m surrounded by to the point they feel like family. I just wish I worked more!

At this point, this goal is more like a dream, but I am taking steps to get to there. BABY STEPS!!! Yes it feels like it’s taking forever but I can’t quit. Hopefully after I get my master’s, doors will begin to open and that’s when it will appear more like a goal and less of a dream.

so what this really means is to come up with at way to replace $5000 of income per month => that is $166.67 per day <= so that I can be at liberty to spend my attention on the things that I think matter, not the things that someone else thinks matter.

I’m a graduate student in French Literature at Yale University, supposedly everything I’ve dreamed of, but I’m so nervous about failure that I’m not enjoying the work. I wish I could get in touch with what it is I loved about it so much before I came here. It’s not the place or the people—it’s the anxiety I brought with me. Agh!!!

...but not the work I’m supposed to be doing. I decided when I chose this goal to define work as “learning, increasing my aptitude in any skill, or otherwise doing something constructive.” I’m always learning but never doing the work I’m supposed to be doing! Homework takes 2x longer because I learn about everything from thermite to the Chavin culture of pre-columbian Peru…

:-/ Any suggestions?

It may not be a job I’m passionate about or anything but I found a job where I enjoy my coworkers (in and outside of work) and the management team is EXCELLENT. Plus there’s opportunity to advance!