As my father used to tell me: "That's why it is called work and they pay you to do it. If it were always fun, it would be called a hobby and you would be paying them".
I am a lucky guy. I am in an industry I always wanted to work in and, evidently, am very good at. Does that mean that I enjoy every day at work? Nope. There are some assignments I am handed that I hate, and often there are months and months where I don't have a single "enjoyable" assignment. That's why they pay me my small but inflated salary.
But overall, I am very happy in my work... just not at any specific time.
I remember my time in the military when I was in EOD. My job was to blow stuff up with high explosives. How cool is that?? Pretty cool....the first 10-20 times you do it then it becomes work with all the paperwork and setup/clean up. It took me about a week to lose all enjoyment out of blowing stuff up.. it became work. Which in retrospect was a good thing. You don't want people handling high explosives who really like using high explosives.
For a very short time in my callow youth I was involved in the porn industry. Behind the camera, not in front of it (phew!). Taking photographs of these outrageously beautiful women doing outrageously sexy things. How cool is that??? Pretty cool for the first few shoots... then it became work with the deadlines and temperamental performers... and the pressure of making what was outrageously sexy actually look even more outrageously sexy on film.
I think pretty much any job is like this. Fun from the outside, but once inside you find out why it is called work.
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If you do what you love, you won't work a day in your life
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Marc Anthony.
No Marc, you will still work. You may enjoy the work if you are lucky, but it will still be work and sometimes it won't be fun. That's why people pay you to do it.
I have had many excellent jobs in my life however I can't say that I enjoyed any of them all the time.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Marc Anthony
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