Trying to make it works

Maybe it's entering term 3, maybe it's this new phase of my life, maybe i'm just tired.


But I've been thinking about work a lot lately. Actually, i have always been thinking about work, in fact, currently I am reading Every Good Endeavour by Timothy Keller. A colleague saw me reading another of Timothy Keller's book and offered me that. He said it changes his perspective of work. I was eager to embark on it as I was hoping that maybe this book can change my life?
I am just at the beginning, can't tell it's effects on me yet but I do am having maybe what some may call a middle-life crisis.

I wonder:

Am I doing what I love?

If I dread work, does that mean that I do not love what I do?

If I get to do what I love to do, does it really mean that I will look forward to work each day?

Do I really know what I love? What I imagine I would love doing, would it turn out to be the same after a while?

Is there more value to work than just for survival?

Getting a high salary will not make me happy but would getting a lower salary makes me happier?

I've also been thinking about the purpose of work? How do one work to glorify God? How do one work to contribute to the society?

I don't know, I really don't.

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