<p>Fundamental:</p>
<p>I wasn’t responding specifically to your post, but rather to the general tenor of the comments, which in my view just feed this feeling that one is entitled to find work that he loves.</p>
<p>A concrete example: The child of a colleague has insisted that he won’t take a job outside his “field” (major). He’s still looking for a job. Five years later. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for him, his parents are in a position to indulge him.</p>