We need to like our work. I didn’t like my work for 37 years. Then I found the Invisibles/non-targeted. Now I like it. If we can’t blend vocation and avocation, as Robert Frost says in “Two Tramps at Mudtime”, then what are even doing?
…but yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future’s sakes.