Originally posted by BillyBong:
At some point, we all end up doing something we dislike. It's just like planning: you target an objective, but before you can meet it, you must obtain certain criteria to advance.
These same criteria are the tasks we must do to eventually reach our goal of 'doing what we like'. I doubt you can find someone who enjoys his work 99% of the time.
Take me for eg: i would love to be a professional photographer for National Geographic. But the cost of beefing up on camera knowledge plus the subsequent canvassing for cash to travel to exotic parts of the world to get the best images...face it, nobody likes that part.
So i'm in a thankless eng job now.
But it's alright since i'm a cross between a realist and a pragmatist.
You are quite right in saying that we need goals or objectives and need to assign criteria by which to target practically at those goals.
But for most of us, it is in our culture anyway, goals remain goals and criteria are not assigned and nothing is followed up.
That's why after so many years, despite all the scholars and excellence of ideas and their proclaimed intelligence, we are still not upgraded as a country or economy, unlike Korea, Taiwan, Finland etc etc.