Bob Blick wrote:
> Interesting. I don't think working on someone elses projects would ever
> qualify as my dream job. It would essentially be working on someone
> elses dream.
>
> It doesn't matter if I am "creative" in the job or not, if I'm working
> on my own projects it is fulfilling. If it's someone elses "dream", it's
> not mine.

IDK, I remember working overtime in what you may describe "sweatshop 
conditions", and having my boss pry me off working on "his dream" because it 
was 3 am. Maybe it's because I was young and naive, but I definitely relate 
to being excited about something that is not "my own".

Someone mentioned the space program. When I read books about the Apollo 
program, they are full of people saying that they were "proud to be a part 
of it", and most of them made great sacrifices to make it possible.

Even slave laborers understand "job satisfaction". One great illustration is 
a scene from Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" where 
the bricklayers working under terrible conditions, in bitter cold, get 
pleasure from the rhythm of the work and the feeling of accomplishment that 
one gets from making something with his own hands.


> So would I take a 30% cut if I got to do my own stuff? Yes.

Why don't you?

I think you and I would have far fewer disagreements, if you started your 
own business -- because our worldviews would become much better aligned. :)

Vitaliy 

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