Key insights for me: - For me, doing what I am good at makes me happy. - "what I am good at" is often very different from what I think I will be good at, or w

Key insights for me: - For me, doing what I am good at makes me happy. - "what I am good at" is often very different from what I think I will be good at, or what I think I should be good at, or what I would like to be good at. - I find working on big, daunting, time-bound things where I need to educate myself to deliver on, very rewarding (not necessarily easy and not necessarily fun). - The right job for me is a mix of doing things that make me happy, and doing things that I find rewarding. These are all broad generalizations but they are derived from my career. I worked in the music industry as a technologist for many years, and because I'm also a musician, I thought I should be happy doing this. I wasn't. I moved to working at an investment bank, the work was a mix of very challenging things that were a huge stretch for me, and also specific technical things that I was very good at delivering. I loved it, my career took off, and has been great since (I've done a number of different things after said investment bank). Superficially, you wouldn't think that a person like me would be happy working in a large bank, but it turned out I really liked it, and was great at it. and if you met me, you would have thought I'd have loved the music industry, but I didn't, and didn't do very good work as a result.