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I'm not even trying to be funny...I do hate my job, and I am pretty good at it

• andreyf 18y ago
  I think his point is that someone of equal mental capacity who loves whatever it is you do would be better.
• iamelgringo 18y ago
  I hate my day job ( as an ER nurse ) and I frequently hear co-workers say that I'm very good at it. They often express surprise that I want to leave it behind.
• wallflower 18y ago
  Freud was once asked what he though a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated, a "deep" answer. But Freud simply said, "Lieben und arbeiten" ("to love and to work"). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it. For when Freud said "love", he meant the expansiveness of generosity as well as sexual love; when he said "love and work," he meant a general work productiveness which would not preoccupy the individual to the extent that his right or capacity to be a sexual or loving being would be lost. (From "Identity and the Life Cycle", by Erik H. Erikson)