Ah, the meaning of life. A nice easy one for a Tuesday morning: * Find something that you really want to do * Arrange your world so that you can do that t

Ah, the meaning of life. A nice easy one for a Tuesday morning: * Find something that you really want to do * Arrange your world so that you can do that thing Now naturally, that first bit is a tough one if you honestly can't think of a single thing that you like doing. Assuming you can though, the rest follows. Chances are that "something" won't be working for somebody else in a felt cube, so a handy thing to do is to increase your value so that you can bill more per hour spent in that cube and hopefully reduce the number of hours you need to spend there to keep the bills paid (and thus more hours left to spend on "your thing"). As developers, we get an extra trick in that we can so easily work remotely. Once you realize that "remote" doesn't only mean "from my bedroom in the same city as the company", nor "the same hemisphere as the company" nor even "someplace other than the beach", things get nice in a hurry. If your "something I want to be doing" only happens in the mountains, at a particular surf break, or within frisbee-toss of the Eiffel Tower, there's nothing to stop you upping sticks and planting yourself there. In short, it's your life. You get to arrange it any way you like. The fact that most people arrange their lives in exactly the same way doesn't change that. If your life is currently arranged such that you don't even feel like getting out of bed in the morning, that's something that you can fix.