Do you feel your job is important and are you proud to do it?

https://lemmy.world/post/44339130

Do you feel your job is important and are you proud to do it? - Lemmy.World

I’m lucky that I can say yes. That said, I still wouldnt do it for free. What about you, how do you feel about your job/career/field in general?

I have a great job, I’m reaching the end of a successful career and I’m very happy with the choices I’ve made in my professional life.

But my job is NOT important and I’m not proud of it. I’m only proud of having the honesty of doing what I’m paid to do well. Beyond that, my job is a means to an end: supporting my loved ones. They are what’s important. Nobody goes to their grave reflecting of what they did for a living.

Same. I wrote software for a company that nobody would miss if it never existed. I’d like to be more useful to society, but first I’ll make sure I have something saved up for my retirement.