Philipp Lenssen links to an article by Paul Graham on How to Do What You Love. It’s about finding and doing work you enjoy.
I’m all for that. The whole reason for taking a job is to earn money to spend on things that make you happy. So if you’ve found a job that makes you happy, it’s like getting paid more.
People who get paid more are usually willing to work longer and harder at their jobs. So if you are doing work you enjoy, you will work longer and harder at it. That will make the people you are working for—your boss or your clients—happier with the work you do.
It may be tempting to take a job that pays a lot of money even though you hate the work. The problem is, you’ll be competing against other people who love the work and who are therefore willing to work longer and harder than you. The bosses and clients will like their work a lot more than yours, so you’ll have a harder time earning money than if you did a job you enjoy.
One of the comments to Philipp’s post quotes Marcus Buckingham’s The One Thing You Need to Know:
The one thing you need to know about sustained individual success: Discover what you don’t like doing and stop doing it.
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