Top 10 job satisfaction traps for the highly gifted:
10) Topic and challenge don't always align.
9) Many jobs can be exciting and interesting to learn, but the well-learned job becomes routine and routine becomes boring and unsatisfying.
8) There is a very high probability (btw, a more defensible term than guarantee;) ) that you will report to someone less intelligent than you. And a similar probability that you'll be tasked with things that fail your intelligence sniff test.
7) Higher challenge jobs often have higher challenge social environments.
6) Sometimes once you know where the outcome is headed, you get bored and skip the middle steps.
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1) Twenty years out of college you may be delivering pizza while still trying to define satisfaction enough to decide which profession you'll find satisfying.
