If you are very fortunate you might find a career that excites you. That has certainly been the case for my career in software development but I am not sure it will be for much longer, and in a way “It’s payback time”.
Even if you have managed to snag your dream job, in the majority of cases there will still be tasks you don’t like doing. You also probably spend more than half of your working life doing tasks you don’t mind doing but don’t “push your buttons”. Well, it could be about to get worse due to AI.
As long as the amount of time you get to do the tasks you enjoy exceeds the time you spend on the tasks you hate, most people can cope. A little advice if your job falls short in tasks you enjoy:
If (and it’s a big if) you have a good manager, you should discuss the situation. There might not be opportunities to change things but if there are, a good manager realises a happy employee is more productive than a reluctant one.
Alternatively, you might have to take more drastic action and find a new role, maybe in another company. I realise this is far easier to type than done but life is too short to be doing what you don’t like if there is the slightest chance there could be something better.
