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4 | § ¶I Like My Job, For the First Time
-- Not Bored Anymore
For the first time in my life I can say I truly and completely like my job. Especially, since I do not have a job!
I have worked since I was in high school (summers only then). I have help positions from mail clerk / mail-database programmer on a government bureaucracy to Principal Consultant for a huge software company. I always found something I didn’t like about my job – and most of the time I felt bored. Not necessarily bored because of lack of work to do (although it did happened frequently), but bored because what could be done was of no interest to me. The paycheck and the bills it paid kept me interested enough to do a good job at it, however.
The thing I love the most about my consulting practice is that I can decide what I want to do and how I want to do it. I can’t blame anyone for failure, but at the same time success is more in my control than ever. Sure, I am restricted as to what I can do by the functionality that my clients need me to build for them. The end result is defined by someone else. But the mechanics of the day to day work, as well as the decisions about what direction we want to follow are not taken by someone else who has no interest in my personal wellbeing – they are taking by the person who has the most interest: me.