| I had this exact discussion on the phone with a friend yesterday who was down in the dumps. he said that of all of his friends (all professionals - accountants, lawyers, etc), I was the only one that seemed happy with what I was doing (equity analysis).
Although we eventually concluded that I am a simpleton that is easy to please we did raise a couple of interesting points.
1) For some people, no matter what they do they will feel that they have a higher calling in life. The thinkers want to produce something, the producers want to be creatives, the creatives want to think, etc.
2) If you ate the same meal for the rest of your life, you would probably eventually get bored of it.
3) Some chase the money, some are after job satisfaction. The two are not mutually exclusive but for some reason you rarely get the two together.
If you are bored, you should probably change. We only have one life to live and it's too short to not enjoy half of it.
Chi |