How Do I Figure Out Why I Work? Don’t Go to College

I have worked twelve jobs in eight years. At that time, I have concluded, I am terrible at working, but I have also accepted that I am addicted to working. I have to feel like I accomplished something every day. How can both be true at the same time?

Upon the last few months of reflection, I have figured out that none of my previous jobs, I fulfilled my reasons for working. I didn’t know those jobs weren’t for me because I didn’t understand why I wanted to work! But that just made me more frustrated, because why didn’t I know when I was eighteen my reasons for working? Why didn’t it occur to me that I needed a job that fulfilled my goals for working? Why did it take so long to figure it out?

Reasons for Working:

After I quit my twelfth job in eight years because of work-related depression. I started researching. The more I dug, the more I discovered, there are lots of reasons people work. Here are some common reasons to work:

To make a difference/change the world

Financial reasons

• To get a paycheck
• To represent the world acknowledging your worth
• To retire

To have fun/do something you are interested in

• To have an outlet for creativity
• To have friends/be social