You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank

> The survey found that the very biggest determinant in a man’s PMI wasn’t a factor you might expect like relationships or health. It was work. “Job satisfaction,” the survey reported, “is by far the strongest predictor of positivity, being around three times higher than the next strongest predictor.”

Well, not shocked, that’s a third of your day and over half of your daylight hours spent (assuming a typical full time job), I better not feel like I’m constantly wasting it.

I am not my job (I have two). I try not to talk about them, though people find my side job extremely interesting. I would much rather talk about growing fruit trees and writing software that actually doesn't suck. These are not interesting subjects online, but are super interesting offline to other people who work in technical fields. I guess that, perhaps more than anything else, makes me an outlier.

They come so close but don't quite get there.

<<<Believing that it doesn’t matter how you spend your 9-5 — that you can put in your stultifying bit while on the clock and then make up for it in your off hours — can lead to prematurely resigning yourself to doing work you dislike.>>>

IMO they should have been more explicit that "job satisfaction" doesn't necessarily correlate to pay or status. Just as often it's about intellectual stimulation, belief in mission, comfort with one's peers, etc. Satisfying jobs which enable the greatest overall happiness might be quite different than the ones most people seek.

“You’re not your f*kin khakis.”

Art of unmanliness: only revving your engine when cops aren't around because you're a soft little kitty-cat.