> I believe strongly that you can only have a happy life if you love what you do in your day job
This is bad news for the huge amount of people with jobs like trash collector or grocery bagger.
This is bad news for the huge amount of people with jobs like trash collector or grocery bagger.
I've met many people doing the kind of jobs you describe who find it satisfying. They may love using their hands, making the world a little cleaner, helping others, or just like their coworkers. Some say they like the simplicity of a job where it's easy to tell when you did it well and you never need to take your work home with you. Some find it ennobling because of what they pay lets them do.
At the same time, I've met just as many people in theoretically "good" jobs like well-paying software engineering that are utterly miserable.
It's not the job, it's what the job means to you.
No one loves their job every moment of it and even the most rewarding job has challenges, stress, and drudgery.