What job makes people happy?

There was a survey in the United States to see what jobs were considered the most rewarding in people's minds, and in first place came the clergy. The reason: the least secular job is said to be the happiest job. In second place was a firefighter, third was a physical therapist, fifth was a special education teacher, sixth was a teacher, and eighth was a psychologist. Most of them are "very happy" with their jobs because they are helping people or bringing meaning to others. Fourth is the writer, and seventh is the artist. Most of them are paid little or nothing, but the freedom to express what's on their mind brings happiness. Ninth place is financial and financial sales agents, as some of them work in comfortable office environments and make more money per year on average. Tenth place goes to construction engineers, and fiddling with those big toys can be fun.

You can see that the most important thing about a meaningful job is that it's not mundane, followed by giving help to others, and then the ability to create and express freely; having a comfortable and lucrative position; being able to manipulate big toys; and so on.

I think everyone should want a job like that. The job has to be worthwhile in some sense, it has to be worth giving our all to. A job that is universally recognized as a worthwhile endeavor, and is full of challenges that allow us to use our knowledge, determination, and other abilities to create freely. And through our efforts, we can bring home a paycheck and the approval of others.

Does that mean that if we have the jobs mentioned above, we have found the meaning of work? Does it mean that there are no other negative effects?

There are a lot of people in the jobs mentioned above who are also searching for the meaning of work. Because not everyone sees it as a meaningful job. For example, feeding and clothing the poor or caring for the sick doesn't drive people who don't agree with the value of the job to participate in it.

A job in general, by the time the job reaches a certain stage, people will feel that the work they are doing is unskilled repetitive manual labor. I'm sure everyone has experienced this. A job, to two or three years, most people will become familiar with this time will often fall into the constant repetition, that is, constantly copy and paste, there are many people will feel tired, some people will feel that they have figured out everything, and thus lazy to seek progress. The work that is so tedious and completely devoid of innovation has what kind of significance when it comes to work?

There are times when we encounter leaders at work who treat people unfairly; treat us with disinterest; arrange for unnecessary work; and even give us shoes because of our personal views. And this kind of thought will hit people extremely hard. If the sense of meaning is like a delicate flower that needs to be carefully cultivated, then the process of destroying the sense of meaning is like such a delicate flower instantly being trampled by iron boots.

So a job is just a platform, and the significance of that platform is only about us. The meaning of a job is something we discover on our own at work, and it has to be something that matches our own values and has a clear purpose that keeps us focused on it. The fact that we are stuck in repetition and copy and paste is not an excuse for laziness, it is the beginning of our quest for progress. (This is where true "craftsmanship" begins.) Once we discover the value we can bring to society, and realize the personal value here that makes it worthwhile to do so, we find meaning. But we also have to fight against some negative things, such as negative relationships, frustration, and so on. This is when we need to have a correct mindset, give full play to our resilience, our adaptability, to change the environment to bring us unpleasant. Only in this way can we work in a high degree of self-fulfillment, self-expression, enhance the sense of personal mission and find a good reason to work.