something I have learned in the last couple of days
everything sucks, doing work sucks. everything will suck. the work sucks. but there is a difference. you must not do busy work, if it sucks, ask yourself, if I am the best in the world with it, will I be proud of it. well it might be a ladder to be something better but does that seem worthwhile to you.
it does not matter if what you do sucks or not, cus work sucks for everyone, more or less. what the real thing you need to ask yourself is the work you are doing worth it to you?
now there are multiple ways for something to be worth it to you? you might like the thing it might be in 20 years when you make partner or you might like the money from it or you might like the social validation from it. all of these things are valid motivators
but I believe personally,
- I am not a good enough man to dedicate my life to something and bet that 20 years later I would still like it
- money is good, fair
- social validation is a metric that should only come after self validation
I believe and I think I have figured it out. if every work you do is hard until you get good at it and once you get good at it, the money and social validation will follow
HOWEVER, it is a trap to be good at something which you don't find broadly interesting or worth your while.
For example, imagine jake is really good with computers and reading and with a nuerodivergent personality if given the task of going through and finding a menial research or formatting a document or going through 100 books and documents to find something, with enough money and validation, the pros of the job will outweigh the cons of the job which is the menial work.
Now this menial work would be right to do only and only if the work is the field he is broadly interested in as in - he loves company law and legal regulations or secondly that he aspires and would love to be a partner someday.
but you know what is bad? if jake was actually interested in having his own company or tech or startups. now his work does not align with his interests even broadly and this is busy work, meaningful not to jake but to society
I believe the way to go about it is approximately follow your interests and go through the bad work and as you progress in following your interests broadly, one day the a big opportunity will come for you to combine your unique experiences to start something worthwhile to you which the society will benefit from, which only you could have built or built effectively.