Find Work That Feels Like Play

In the past few weeks I have been passed on for two entry level jobs at a startup. These jobs were 18k a year customer facing roles. As a community pharmacist earning 70k plus a year in a customer facing role, I was prepared to lie about my wage to my family and girlfriend just so I could get a job at a startup. And they still passed me up.

My recent failures in these applications has made me realise with the help of my girlfriend that I in fact dodged a bullet. She stated, quite accurately that I wouldve hated those roles.

A job like that wouldn’t feel like play to me, just work. And I already have a career like that in pharmacy, why do I need to start another.

Finding work that feels like play is hard, it is closely related to specifc knowledge and one of three ways to retire.

I am now starting to view finding work that feels like play in terms of just following my curisoisties and passions and building a job or business around them. That way I benefit from the principle agent effect also.

At the moment writing, coding and deep work are what interests me most. I shall continue to follow my process and practice each day. I already have a half baked journal idea and instagram I can leverage.

How finding work that feels like play is a path to retirement?

Naval believes there are three ways to retire:

1. Have so much money that the interest on it covers your burn rate
2. Get your burn rate down to zero
3. You are doing something you love. You enjoy it so much that it’s not about the money.