I actually do this a lot. I try to minimize the pain I have with any task I have to do. This means exchanging merienda/lunch so that I don’t have to go through the trudgery of testing some bits of code that I find extremely boring. This is what we should do. Find the happy bits in our life and maximize the fun. Sometimes this means finding a new job, sometimes this means letting go of some of the comforts we enjoy, sometimes this means having to take less money (ehem), sometimes this means taking on bigger more challenging projects (ehem), and it obviously means knowing yourself and being flexiblre about yourself enough to be able to change and to be able to be inflexible.
Most everything about happiness in this life is about knowing oneself, controlling for the fear and want for comfort we have that is preventing us from doing what would make us happy. This blindness is the blindness of fear and the least action. If we can get through this hump, this fear I believe this is the easy 80% of happiness we get if happiness obey’s the Pareto Principle.
Ah, we all think we get paid to be brilliant, funny thing is that we usually enjoy the stuff we are brilliant at.
It’s the drudgery that exacts its price on our souls.
Wouldn’t we all take a pay cut if it allowed us to only do the bits of our job that we enjoyed? I would.
-Hugh McLeod of GapingVoid.com