There is a John Prine song I absolutely love, called “Angel From Montgomery.” And the last verse includes these two lines:
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say?
So this is the John Prine test: Come home every day this week, and see if you have something to say.
Tell a friend. Call your mother. Write it down. Whatever.
Just come home and see what you have to say.
I find that the people who love their jobs the most talk about them a lot. And the ones who don’t love their work rarely mention it. I know people who have been at the same job for years — and I’ve never been able to get more than a shrug out of them when I ask about work.
I wonder why they stay. Because work should stay with you. It should bother you all day. It should always be on your mind.
You should work somewhere that excites you, where the work stays with you all day. You really do deserve that a place that challenges you like that.