You’ll probably “love doing” anything where you have autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
I love problem solving and mentoring people.
I would be happy doing this in any context. My career is in software development but if I worked at a bakery, restaurant, or any other job or company I can think of I’d probably find ways to build teams, mentor people, and solve the hard problems.
For the first few years of my career I tried to build things that I was interested in and would obsess about the thing but was in love with the process itself. Later in my career I would look for companies with a mission and a purpose that I loved and a founding team and leaders I aligned with.
I don’t think loving what you do day to day is important or even loving the mission or end goal. A job can just be a job and you can use maximize for free time and/or compensation and use them as the autonomy part for how to spend your free time to master something for a given purpose. That purpose can be something bigger than yourself or just your own personal fulfillment which is also worthwhile.
I plan to retire from tech in a few years and do something else, not because I no longer love it but because I want to try new aspects of problem solving etc. would love to sell physical goods like a cafe or plant store or something.
It sounds like maybe you’re framing the problem wrong. Instead of looking for a magical feeling from the day to day tasks of a specific role or field, try to think about society, how you want to fit into it and what you want your contribution to be (purpose), find a company or non profit or whatever that is trying to move the needle on that topic and have that impact, and then look for roles where you can develop mastery and have autonomy.
Alternatively try different hobbies and interest and try to find one that inspires you. Founder, musician, scientist, philosopher, etc. who inspires you or looks cool. In awe of the guitarist from led zeppelin and then pick up a guitar and work at it every day to develop mastery. Once you reach some level of mastery in some thing you can better reason about other things you might be interested in in a personal or professional context.
I love problem solving and mentoring people.
I would be happy doing this in any context. My career is in software development but if I worked at a bakery, restaurant, or any other job or company I can think of I’d probably find ways to build teams, mentor people, and solve the hard problems.
For the first few years of my career I tried to build things that I was interested in and would obsess about the thing but was in love with the process itself. Later in my career I would look for companies with a mission and a purpose that I loved and a founding team and leaders I aligned with.
I don’t think loving what you do day to day is important or even loving the mission or end goal. A job can just be a job and you can use maximize for free time and/or compensation and use them as the autonomy part for how to spend your free time to master something for a given purpose. That purpose can be something bigger than yourself or just your own personal fulfillment which is also worthwhile.
I plan to retire from tech in a few years and do something else, not because I no longer love it but because I want to try new aspects of problem solving etc. would love to sell physical goods like a cafe or plant store or something.
It sounds like maybe you’re framing the problem wrong. Instead of looking for a magical feeling from the day to day tasks of a specific role or field, try to think about society, how you want to fit into it and what you want your contribution to be (purpose), find a company or non profit or whatever that is trying to move the needle on that topic and have that impact, and then look for roles where you can develop mastery and have autonomy.
Alternatively try different hobbies and interest and try to find one that inspires you. Founder, musician, scientist, philosopher, etc. who inspires you or looks cool. In awe of the guitarist from led zeppelin and then pick up a guitar and work at it every day to develop mastery. Once you reach some level of mastery in some thing you can better reason about other things you might be interested in in a personal or professional context.