Why are we working?

I'm dreaming of a job I can enjoy like I enjoy my hobbies. How marvelous would it be to come to work which satisfy you. I don't have that kind of job and lately I have been wondering is it possible to have one?

I asked one of my friends what is her motivation to work. The answer came straight out: money. It sounds very cold and heartless to say so. But she said if she had enough money for living she would not work for a day.

I don't deny that a salary is very important to me also. And maybe (if I'm honest) it is almost only motivating thing to work at the moment in my present job. But it doesn't have to be so, does it?

I have been in my present job about four and a half year which includes a year and a half maternity leave. And when I came back from that long leave I realized that nothing has changed while I was gone. They were working with same issues than almost two years ago. Hey, we have done those already! It seemed to me that no progression hasn't happened.

My motivation to develop same issues again and again is disappeared. People are working and I descripe a chain of requisite jobs. Then we ponder together can something be improved and so on. So we create together a process, we tested it, everybody were happy... And PANG: negotations start and organisation changes (happends about one to two times in year). People are relocated, teams are broken down, someone is fired etc.

After few weeks situation settles down. Then we have to start again. Study a new organisation, wonder what team is doing what... And guess what? Correct, that process we created before fuss have to be atleast update or even recreate. Okay, the good point of this is that work is not ending. Probably stakeholders get what they wanted (profit). Anyway in my point of view I can't make any sense of this. I didn't get any extra.

Somehow it has to be possible to find satisfying job. The job you come smiling every morning, full on passion to work. I'm sure that job of my dreams is waiting for me to find it!