I'm retired. Here are my observations on jobs:

They tend to take over your life, no matter what they are. You can tell yourself that the work is unimportant, dull, pointless - whatever you want to say to minimize its effect upon you, but the job and the people at the job will always be on you mind. They will define your world if you let them. Most people don't have the discipline to "think about what you think about", so thoughts about the people and events at work are always popping into their heads, wherever they go.

Ask yourself if it's really the job that's keeping you from "doing what you really want to do". A person can overestimate what they would accomplish without a job being in the way. I noticed that when I retired. You can take what you accomplished in 4 hours of spare time on a weekday and project that you will accomplish 3 times as much in 12 hours of spare time. But that's a false projection. You won't want to work fo 12 hours as hard as you work for 3. (People don't realize how HARD they work when they work in their spare time.)

I think the most common case is for a person to feel that they cannot accomplish what they want to do alone. So they want a job where people are helping them and encouraging them. People generally want to have a mentor and/or be a mentor. Finding such a job situation is an extremely rare event. Don't miss it if the opportunity arises, but don't plan your life on finding it. If "doing what you want to do" depends on finding sympathetic and supportive people, you might be out of luck.

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