Ok as you say yourself, you need work to pay the bills. That’s fine. Now what you want to look for is not what a company does, but who your teammates are. You’re going to spend a lot of time working, so the most important is that you like the people and people like you, especially if you don’t want to play the corporate game.
If you’re working with people who are fun to be with, it doesn’t matter if your work consists in circling numbers like they do at Lumon.
Work is not fun in itself, that’s why they’re different words. As my boss used to say: if you enjoy it, it’s not work. But if you can have fun while doing the work, it’s a lot better.
So yes go find nice people who are fun to be around, avoid the assholes and big corp and you’ll be fine.
Usually smaller companies are better, ones that have focus on good stuff, like a company that makes toys, or medical things.
What I chose to do is go to small finance firms. I get much much less than the CEO, but much more than I would anywhere else. That allows me to free up some time to do other stuff. There are a lot of nice people in finance (mostly cause everyone is well paid so noone really complains). 2 problems: sometimes people in finance are too money-driven, and that can be annoying, and the learning curve is steep.
If you’re working with people who are fun to be with, it doesn’t matter if your work consists in circling numbers like they do at Lumon.
Work is not fun in itself, that’s why they’re different words. As my boss used to say: if you enjoy it, it’s not work. But if you can have fun while doing the work, it’s a lot better.
So yes go find nice people who are fun to be around, avoid the assholes and big corp and you’ll be fine.
Usually smaller companies are better, ones that have focus on good stuff, like a company that makes toys, or medical things.
What I chose to do is go to small finance firms. I get much much less than the CEO, but much more than I would anywhere else. That allows me to free up some time to do other stuff. There are a lot of nice people in finance (mostly cause everyone is well paid so noone really complains). 2 problems: sometimes people in finance are too money-driven, and that can be annoying, and the learning curve is steep.