How did you decide on what career to pursue? Did you think it through or was it just a happy accident, a matter of chance or a choice that you have now learnt to tolerate because it pays for your current lifestyle. Are you the person who now believes, that everyone doesn't HAVE to just absolutely jump up with joy at going to work on a Monday morning. Let us face it - most people don't. Not unless you are wildly in love with your work and can't stop thinking about the ten different things to do at work that will give you a high. Even if the honest answer to your career lifestyle is "serendipity", remember you are spending several years of your life pursuing what may have been a chance outcome. You hope like hell you will like it. As an HR person, ever so often I meet people who are stuck in a job that they hate with all they have. Imagine what it would do to pursue a career designed around what they are passionate about. Careers and lives need to be in synch with each other. Else you are wasting your life and your talent just to earn a living to fund your lifestyle.