What _really_ makes a good job for me?

Ya know, my GAO anxiety has led me to question, yet again, what is it that makes various jobs work for me.

I’ve really liked most of my tutoring experiences. Particularly the small groups of cooperative, interested people.

My computer jobs mostly blew. Somehow my work with Ro didn’t match this. It could be partially the utter informality of the job. It was undoubtedly partially the intense interaction between the two of us. The part time nature of the work.

Motorola blew in a big way. I think the cube farm made it harder for me to hide from my misery. Or maybe I just wasn’t ready to settle down into a desk job.

My CMU computing services jobs were only a little more appealing than the motorola job, but the office arrangements made it more possible to pass this over. And my coworkers contained some truly rocking people. There’s only one of my coworkers at Motorola that I even really liked at all, and I had no deep bonds of affection with him. (Not counting people I didn’t interact with on a daily basis). I wish I could have made one of those two jobs work for me. If I’d liked what I’d been doing, motorola would have had to have offered me far more to peel me away, if they could have done so at all. Don’t get me started on the commute.

So, work has to be compatible with the rest of my life. Work has to involve interpersonal interaction. Office arrangements neither make nor break a job. But what makes work tick for me is still a mystery. I ought to remember that my best programming work experience was doing military drone research. Learn to relax a little, stop worrying so much about saving the world. Stop worrying about doing shit right (by which I mean perfectly).

Enh. No real insights here.