"Happiness and life fulfillment are very much found in the 9-to-5, pay-check-to-pay-check demographic of society." I wish this were true because then I would n

"Happiness and life fulfillment are very much found in the 9-to-5, pay-check-to-pay-check demographic of society." I wish this were true because then I would not be trying to get away from a 9-to-5 job which pays very handsomely with no overtime. The real reason that a 9-to-5 is not fulfilling is because ,as an employee, you are not measured by how much you create. The metrics are a bunch of bogus crap some HR dude listed down before he had to leave to pick up his kids at 5pm. So your forced to do things which are usually unfulfilling and a lot of times inconsequential to the business and your own development. Add that to dreary meetings, performance reviews which leave you feeling violated and managers who check whether your in on time instead of what you've produced makes for a $hit of a day. Do it 223 times a year and you'll soon realize that 9-to-5 is not about happiness or fulfillment. There are places like Google where this may not be true but this is par for the course for every job I've worked at.