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I've reasoned that the work I want to do needs to be some combination of a) fascinating and b) meaningful. Some things that follow from that:

- each of those qualities exists on a continuum, so the goal is to make moves that take me up and/or to the right

- you can slide down / to the left (woops) by staying in the same job

- what moves one person up & to the right will be different from the next person (for me, it has to involve building something original, i.e. open-ended problem solving)

- money... hmmm.... either functions as a constraint (i.e. box that needs to be checked) or there's some sort of ROI optimization of money vs time spent (e.g. $1M to work a terrible job 5 hours per week... okay, I'm listening)... buyer beware...

Interesting thought experiment. Thanks for getting the ol' hamster wheel turning!

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