<p>Penelope over at Brazen Careerist is plumbing the depths of a question I ask myself all the time: "My job is ok, but do I really <em>love</em> it? What <em>would</em> I really love?"</p> <p>I have failed, for years, to answer these questions. But now I can stop beating myself up about it!</p> Penelope over at Brazen Careerist is plumbing the depths of a question I ask myself all the time: “My job is ok, but do I really love it? What would I really love?”I have failed, for years, to answer these questions. But now I can stop beating myself up about it! Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard, spent his whole career studying this sort of problem and published his findings in “Stumbling on Happiness.” Gilbert concludes that we’re basically unable to know if we’ll like a job until we try it, so self-analysis and market analysis aren’t going to get you very far. Start trying stuff. Check out Penelope’s blog for a pointer to Professor Gilbert’s article. Careers