Arthur C. Brooks breaks down three job-search motivations: fun, values, and fascination. People who chase fun jobs leave quickly and disengage. Those pursuing fascinating work perform best. The key is finding something that captivates you, not just what sounds enjoyable.
If you want to find your calling, relate what you can make your living doing as much as you can to what's most interesting to you. And that will be a great gear toward calling. There's a bunch of research out there, by the way, that compares people who— that they look for fun most in their work and people who look for values most in their work. Right? What you find is people who take jobs because they're the most fun jobs, they tend to not stay with their jobs very long and they tend not to be very engaged. Who, who follow their jobs for values, they do a little bit better. But the people who do the best are people who look for work that's fascinating to them.
