Why I like my job?

I realized recently that as 37 years old person I have been attending different classes and learning different things for around 30 years now, with 2 breaks 1 or 1.5 years long.

When I was 7 I started Elementary School in Sosnie, Poland. Then, into High School but that was High School with Rail Road Specialization (idea was that it is better to have such high school education and increase chances of finding employment afterwords ... not the same as vocational school which also existed [and does] in Poland)

So in addition to Language (Polish), Math, Biology, I also learned about Electricity, Electromechanics of different parts of electrical trains (Poland train infrastructures is far superior to #1 [sarcasm for US] but then so is most civilized nations ...), etc.

I also wanted to be "cool" so I started to study music in School of Music along with my high school. I remember seeing one of my friends who played piano and all the girls gathering around him and at that time I though "mm, I want to play piano like that ..."

Music got me into US in 1993. I was in Polish Army in Orchestra thanks to Music. In USA in addition to music and learning how to march in Marching Band, which I soon realized was not going to bring any bread on the table, in my sophomore year I also started to study business, administration, economics.

Even after graduating and before graduate school I took some classes to learn more, computers, statistics, higher level of English to learn to write and read better (as you can see, I need still many more classes) (I also learned some French living in France from 1998 to 2000)

So what does this have to do with the title of this post? I like my job because I can be creative. I learned or was learning rather about lots of things but this job allows me to use a bit of everything in my work. My work does not pay as much as I could earn in private practice but it provides nice casual atmosphere and very liberal approach to hours worked, leaving work, etc. In a word, I am not a slave of a corporation. I can't afford as many things but I enjoy my days more and learned overtime to be happy with what I have and make the most of it (and if you think this is trivial and not that important, then, well ... that's your right)

The movie below made by some professor about Web 2.0 best describes not just the environment we live in, but for me it reminds me that I get to play with all this ... and incredibly, some people actually are paying me for it!