Have you figured out your reason for doing what you do?

We all saw the recent post of FAANG employee earning a lot but not happy. I am sure that must be the case with so many of us. Why do we still talk about money? Speaking for myself, I can say, more money doesn't bring happiness as much as having fun with friends does! Is there anyone here who has explored lot of things in life and then decided on what they love and want to do? You didn't take the job because it pays you well but because it's fun for you? What do you want in your life as a North Star Metric? Money or something else? Anyone wants to share their take? I look forward to meaningful relationships and figuring out whats fun for me

Have always been curious and want to know what people here think. Which side do you lie on? Personally have always felt I work to eventually build something meaningful, to help people at scale. But also it’s made up stuff that humans do at the end of the day… How do you folks reason? Do you work for the basic needs, or to solve a higher calling?

In this age of remote work and layoffs, is there any company which excites you for work? Please share why it excites you too. Looking for reasons other than money.

I have seen hiring manager that they ask for one question always. Why did you switch many jobs and also why do you want to switch now? Do we really think managers are unaware to covid, recession and job market? What's your take and tell me more these experience...

So I am working at a startup for around a year now. Everyday I see, it feels, what am I really doing? Where is the life headed? Doing bare minimum or doing your tasks and fucking off isn't enough. It's expected that we outgrow constantly, as if it's this work that we can always think about and nothing else. At the end, am wondering if it's still worth it? 1 day it feels that let's just quit it! Next day I feel, okay, I do want the money. I ain't looking for suggestions here, just wanted to see if anyone else felt this way

Always had a fascination for flying objects as a kid. If this held true, I would really love to work in the aerospace domain. Building insane drones or UAVs would be awesome, especially after a decent stint in software. Was reading about this company called Zipline which works in autonomous aerial delivery. Quite insane how they supply medical supplies in Rwanda using gliding drones that are launched across the country. Stories like these inspire an entire generation to take up engineering and change the world. What about you all?

Just trying to understand the purpose or the motive of the people on GV that keeps you going by pushing yourself. I'm sure we've all been through a phase where this feels pointless, but still we keep at it.

I know it’s a very common question, and impossible to know or answer. But curious how you folks here rationalize the meaning of life. Add your age if that’s okay, for good measure For me: I’m 27, my life’s purpose (or so I think) is to build something that helps a whole lot of people have a better life. And it is to make the people around me - family, friends, strangers happier (the scale of which depends on how successfully I pull this off). Whats yours? Would love to engage on this :)

Lately, seeing many posts on Grapevine around work being transactional. Something where you put in X hours and get paid Y. It can possibly mean a combination of two things: 1. They're not emotionally vested in the work they do everyday. Perhaps, something else interests them more. 2. They're several degrees of connection away from the impact they make. Imagine a Backend Engineer, who corresponds with their EM who in-turn corresponds to the Product team who in turn talk with the users. Essentially, the backend engineer is 2 degrees away from the users. In most large organisations you can be 5+ degrees of connection away from the people you impact. Hence, they feel that the work they do is not purposeful enough. What do you all think about this? Do you find your work purposeful?

Recently, every friend or colleague of mine have been on rant mode and very dissatisfied with jobs despite being paid bomb money and crazy esops. Is everyone in every organisation in all functions so unhappy or is this just GenZ problem of setting wrong expectations from the Job?