This makes sense to me. In a lot of way, the current generation seems to have a lot of folks suffering from 'special snowflake' syndrome. It is drilled into p

This makes sense to me. In a lot of way, the current generation seems to have a lot of folks suffering from 'special snowflake' syndrome. It is drilled into people at school, 'you are special! You are destined for greatness!" But the reality is that they don't tell you theat most of the great things in life are free... A good family and children, personal happiness, friendships, love. These things make a person happy and satisfied. Even relationships I've had when waiting tables and the pride I took in doing that work was extremely satisfying (even if the hours were bad and the pay mediocre). But that was because of my attitude and goals, not because of the work. Now, I work at a very very large software company doing interesting, challenging work and am paid well for it. Despite all my great coworkers and satisfaction in doing my job, they are not going to keep me company or be my real friends at the end of the day. Work to live, my friend, don't live to work.