Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?

@perfectjob This job sounds great; good for you! I have felt many times what you have felt...and some people close to me have wondered if maybe in my case it was some sort of mild depression. Have you considered speaking with a professional? I should emphasize that this might not be any sort of mild depression but the "American way", as others have eluded, where reaching a partocular level makes one feel like it might noe be "enough" (whatever that means).

By the way, may i ask if you wouldn't mind sharing a bit more what your job entails? I'm a little older, and admittedly at a different stage of life, but your role sounds like what i might like...maybe, depending on what you actually do for your living. If you don't want to share here, feel free to email me privately. (My address can be obtained by viewing my HN profile.) Thanks, and I hope that you feel better! As others tell me: life isn't as bad or as boring or as unfulfilling as you might think! :-)

You also have family, and you can have hobbies and other pursuits if you want to. Fulfillment comes from all of those aspects of life, not just from your job.

It kind of sounds like you are coming from a baseline assumption that your job should be the most important thing in your life, the thing that gives you fulfillment. That can be true for some people but it isn't true for all people, perhaps not even most people, as much as HN would have you believe that it is.

You have to make your own happiness. All of this shit is fundamentally meaningless anyway, so start from there and figure out how you want to spend your time.

No one here can solve your ennui for you. Only advice I can give is start trying things, throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks.

Pretty much everything in this life is a means towards the end.

We were created to know and love God which is our ultimate end that will satisfy all our desires. Without him you will always feel something is missing.