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Does a dream job make you happy?
Natalia J 52132113-Jan-24
Why your dream job will not guarantee happiness? Doing a job you absolutely LOVE can positively influence your everyday mood, but it will not guarantee long-term happiness. Why do you think that is, and what are your thoughts? Does a dream job make you happy?
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  • not really
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    • No cold hard cash does How much? Just a little bit more as my pl mate Getty senior would say
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      • I don't think I've ever had one.
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        • I haven’t had a dream job so I can’t say.
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          • If you enjoy your job you’ll never work a day in your life! Having your dream job should be just that
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            • yes
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              • A dream job is one that you look forward to doing every day of your working life I was lucky to have the job I loved and was good at
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                • There is only one way to TRUE happiness and that is what you create from your own heart. There are a lot of things that can "influence" being happy ... dream job, dream husband or wife, dream car etc etc ... but only one way for real happiness. People who rely on someone or something (eg job) to make them happy are very often disappointed.
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                  • doing a dream (being self employed) job makes me happy
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                    • I have never had a dream job or even desired one. My one aim was to have a job I enjoyed and that I was good at, and very fortunately I always seemed to have both. It did become difficult eventually because I refused to work full time. I already had a full time job with a husband and 3 children and all that that entailed. I was moved to another position that better suited my hours but another manager brought me back because of my experience, so I got another round of enjoyment.
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                      • I work for a small business and the boss is amazing, I love my job and I’m treated with the utmost respect. It’s important your happy with the job your doing and main so having an understanding boss.
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                        • I've never had a dream job so I have no idea, but after having several jobs that have made me unhappy I can only guess that the dream job would be bliss. To actually wake up every morning & look forward to going to work would be wonderful.
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                          • Yes. It makes me happy.
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                            • I think a dream job is where you get to work in what you are passionate about but that can change over time expecially if co workers are only in for the money
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                              • Is there such a thing or does the gloss wear off after a few years. I had what I thought was a dream job and then the owners sold up and it became a nightmare. Got another job.
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                                • If your dream job turns out to be not a dream, get another job.
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                                  • Follow your passions & then you will find happiness.
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                                    • The usually less considered day-to-day aspects may drag one down.
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                                      • Yes ❤️
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                                        • If you don't like your job you will be miserable and unproductive. Leave and find another, even try different types of career until you find the one you feel good at. Then you'll be happy and productive.
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                                          • I am retired, too late but this will do.
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                                            • Never had a "dream" job but was satisfied with work undertaken and only loathed one position but I stuck at it for more than 4 years for financial purposes.
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                                              • if it doesn't make you happy, earning an income to provide shelter and food should make life enjoyable at least.
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                                                • I had a job years ago that turned out to be closest to my dream job. I worked for a large department store, in their Visual Merchandising Dept. (AKA display department). My job was to dress the mannequins in the women's and children's department. I got to choose the accessories and style the wigs to coordinate with the outfits selected by the buyers for each department. It was like playing with life size Barbie dolls. It was a really fun job. When I had my first child, I chose to stay home with her and her two sisters that followed her. By the time all three of them were in school, the store had gone out of business. I got another job as a teacher's aide, working with special needs children. It was a very rewarding job, but not as much fun!
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                                                  • YES BEING RETIRED.LOL
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                                                    • A dream job would be great but your happiness and wellbeing is more important
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                                                      • I worked in Heavy Enginering for 45 Years lots of overtime never out of work and took me all over Aus
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                                                        • I enjoyed my whole career as a;adviser to clients on shares and bonds and every day I found something interesting in my whole career
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                                                          • If you LOVE it you never have to work a day of your life.
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                                                            • As long as it does, and that's enough for you, so be it.
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                                                              • Is there such a thing as a dream job..Even president of USA or country leader has drawbacks. The perks and lurks are great
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                                                                • My dream job would be a lifeguard at a nudist academy, but the pays not that good but the tits are great
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                                                                  • My dream job fulfilled me until I was sent to work with a psychopath.
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                                                                    • bc u dont live to work, u work to live..(work circumstances changes sometimes over time, and what starts out to be a 'dream job' u suddenly find urself redeployed) :( & if your home life is crappy, then u will not be happy anyways even if ur job was/is a dream one... everyone has to work at least about 50 yrs so thats a long time to expect ur dream job to last.
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                                                                      • Not sure as I have never had a dream job because I never knew what I wanted to do and it's all a bit late now. If any one has their dream job I am very pleased for them. I am just happy sitting at home doing surveys if I can and looking after hubby and pets.
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                                                                        • Somehow I think that a dream job would be great.........for a while. Too much of a good thing can turn the best into the most bitter.
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                                                                          • Yes if it is your dream job
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                                                                            • I'm absolutely sure my dream job would have made me eternally happy. But when I missed out on it, I went in another direction. Should have persevered somehow I suppose. And now, I still dream about it and what might have been. Oh well....
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                                                                              • I think a dream job with good employer and co-workers sounds great
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                                                                                • No
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                                                                                  • No Idea I'm in a job I love and am happy but granted I've only been doing this for 37 years so I don't have much experience.
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                                                                                    • Personally, a dream job can make you happy to a certain point. there is also your free time to yourself. The positive thing about having a dream job it gives you the motivation to get up every morning and go to work, you enjoy and feel satisfied with the outcome of your day.
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                                                                                      • no not really
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                                                                                        • Yes it should if that is want you really want to do.
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                                                                                          • Yes. If you love it, it is not a job - it is fun/enjoyment using your skills. But sometimes a dream job can turn sour, depending on both internal and external circumstances beyond your control. Then, get out and take your skill set with you somewhere else.
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                                                                                            • Maybe... until they declare you redundant and throw you out with all the rest of the rubbish.
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                                                                                              • A lot depends on your age and state of health. What you may consider a dream at age 19-25 might have a very different "feel" at age 45 or beyond. We often find the 'dream' changes as we age.
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                                                                                                • A dream job you enjoy doing does give you happiness while you are doing your job but it won't give you good health. When you are going about your personal life your job can't give you long term happiness and happiness comes from your personal life, partners, children, family. No, I don't believe guaranteed happiness come from the dream job.
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                                                                                                  • Everyone is trying to get more from work. but the money system has been designed to prevent that from happening. So someone could obviously get their dream from their Job a lot easier if the banks where different.
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                                                                                                    • Not sure. Have'nt ever had my dream job. But happiness come from within.
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                                                                                                      • If you are happy and contented with your job it should make a great difference to your life. You spend most of your time at your job and if you enjoy it, it should carry over to your free tim
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                                                                                                        • If you keep an open mind on what you are doing and enjoy whatever it is that you are doing, then you won't be unhappy. It's the only trick to keep you sane during your work years and afterwards once you have retired.
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                                                                                                          • I was an engineer in a steel mill for 41 years and I loved every minute of it. I turned down other jobs with better money and cleaner conditions because I enjoyed the atmosphere and camaraderie of the crews. I wouldn’t describe it as happiness but more as satisfaction and contentment
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                                                                                                            • it is a balancing act.
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                                                                                                              • i,m happy my working life is behind me retired
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                                                                                                                • Some times I miss the job but I sure as hell don’t miss getting up and going to work……lol
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                                                                                                              • YOU HAVE TO ENJOY WHAT YOU DO.
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                                                                                                                • even if you love your job, it shouldn't overtake your life. Make sure you have a good work/private life balance. Money doesn't give you happiness
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                                                                                                                  • Finding a job that is the perfect fit for you is what makes you happy. A “dream job” needs to become a “reality job” before you know if you are really going to enjoy it.
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                                                                                                                    • WHAT? Doing a Job you love guarantees you will do it well, that leads to respect, long term happiness, When you love and enjoy what you do, IT RADIATES to all areas of life. TALKING 55 years experience. My Work made me happy and it improved all areas of my life, and still called on even though retired. HAPPINESS depends more on your focus, which these days is how much you will earn.
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                                                                                                                      • I am doing my dream job by selling Avon products to customers for 9 years than I am moving on to sell insurance plans to customers and become independent Assoicate for a well-known insurance company than I also become an independent travel agent as well.
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                                                                                                                        • Dream jobs are great as long as co-workers are just what you expect them to be and your employer is what you expect them to be. But you can't control those details.
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                                                                                                                          • For me, a job is a means to an end, Want to be happy for more than just 8 hours a day!
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                                                                                                                            • Yes it can make you some what happy. Nothing is worse than going to a job you hate every day.
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                                                                                                                              • I have had many dream jobs throughout my life most have made me happy
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                                                                                                                                • i loved my working life it has taken me 2 years now to almost settle into retirement
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                                                                                                                                  • Working an hour a day would be my dream job.
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                                                                                                                                    • Better than a nightmare job!
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                                                                                                                                      • Had one that allowed me to be several vastly different things over my forty years. (Shhhh...I would have done it for free.)
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                                                                                                                                        • If you work at something you enjoy, going to work is never a chore.
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                                                                                                                                          • But when its over ???
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                                                                                                                                          • Linda B 907610Linda R 394234
                                                                                                                                            I don't understand your question. I love my job and am good at it. It's easy to be good at something you enjoy. Going to work isn't a chore for me - even with the hour commute each way.
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                                                                                                                                          • Linda R 394234Linda B 907610
                                                                                                                                            I mean when you are considered too old
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                                                                                                                                          • Linda B 907610Linda R 394234
                                                                                                                                            There's no age limit on what I do but I already have my home in the country where I will retire.
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                                                                                                                                        • You make your own happiness.
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                                                                                                                                          • we made us own fun!!
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                                                                                                                                        • maybe if it comes with the dream salary
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                                                                                                                                          • Some people will never be happy, no matter what. It's in their nature.
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                                                                                                                                            • Better to have a good work/ life balance than a so called "Dream Job".
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                                                                                                                                              • I ran my own business, so it was what i made of it. Retired now.
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                                                                                                                                                • AS LONG AS ONE IS HAPPY IN THEIR JOB ,THAT'S WHAT MATTER'S...
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                                                                                                                                                  • If its your dream job them you should be happy if you are not then its not your dream job and maybe you should start looking for it and change
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                                                                                                                                                    • How you approach that job. How you approach anything in life. That's what makes you happy 😁
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                                                                                                                                                      • I was happy with my job "Product Coordinater" and the company decided to dis estabilished it, and threw me out on the street
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                                                                                                                                                        • Yes, it did but as I have not worked for 33 years it is now immaterial.
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                                                                                                                                                          • It can- if that's your only measure for happiness. I usually keep jobs in their place as there's far more to Life on Earth.
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                                                                                                                                                            • I never got my dream job but I got a job that paid my way through life and now I’m retired at job would be a dream
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                                                                                                                                                              • I was in my last job for 30 years and progressed over the years to a Production Supervisor and looked after 249 people and machinery. I enjoyed it very much and found it very rewarding, and met a lot of really nice people.
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                                                                                                                                                                • my dream job made me bankrupt
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                                                                                                                                                                  • My mum and sister didn't let me follow my dream. I working a job I don't like but pay the bills. Big mistake I did ask can I do something in life I was passion about. I should did behind they back what I want in life.
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                                                                                                                                                                    • Yeah, but not having to work would make me more happy.
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                                                                                                                                                                      • if you don't love what you do, you will never be happy,,,
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                                                                                                                                                                        • Happiness is a choice, if you want to miserable you will find a way to do it
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                                                                                                                                                                          • It certainly can't hurt.
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                                                                                                                                                                            • The question was both asked and answered by it’s author 🤷🏻‍♀️
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                                                                                                                                                                              • 1/ You can't be happy with anything unless you are happy with yourself. 2/ A job should not define you. 3/ It is easier to work in a place where your job is not great but the people are than you love what you do but dislike who you work with
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                                                                                                                                                                              • Many times others see how happy you are and set out to destroy it for you.
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                                                                                                                                                                                • dream jobs start out wonderfully and then the reality sets in and the dream awakens
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                                                                                                                                                                                  • Yes, UNTIL you become permanently disabled while doing it.
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                                                                                                                                                                                    • Yes...as long as it lasts it does...I've done those..its temporary...but great...at some point I've found others come along and spoil it... human nature I suspect....
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                                                                                                                                                                                      • Yes it makes you get up in the morning with a smile on your face knowing you will have a good day doing what you like
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                                                                                                                                                                                        • i think your dream job can make you happy, if you enjoy giving back and you work as a nurse that can be rewarding, everything has pros and cons so nothing is perfect but i believe some people can be happy with there dream job
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                                                                                                                                                                                          • If one gets a job they love that would be great but in reality this rarely occurs. A job is an end to a means. Money allows you to put a roof over your head, food in your stomach, etc. Sometimes the job is good at providing this and other times not. Some people work very hard for very little and others just glide through life and get the big salaries. Money does not make you happy but it sure eases the passage. I think the answer is you do not live for work but work to live. If you are happy then that is best.
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                                                                                                                                                                                            • Shit bosses spoilt the dream
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