How should we treat the job that we do to earn a living?

* Should it be something that we like doing and make it into a living?
* Should it be something quite different from what we really like doing, because making a hobby into a job may not be a bright idea?
* Is it simply the means to a lifestyle we aspire to, regardless of what we think or feel about it? Therefore we grin and bear the drudgery?
* Do we let it take over our lives and lifestyle?

Sometimes I wonder if it is good, at all, to have the option of looking upon earning a living as anything except just that. The possibility that it can be something more can be the cause of immense confusion and anguish.

And yet, aren't we the generation that looked at our fathers with adolescent sneer on learning that they spent 27 years in the same office?