Many people say you have to love your job. I don't agree, in general. True you can't dislike your job because you spend so much time doing it for a large part of your life. There is a balance to strike.

I love hunting, outdoors etc, but I work as software engineer. Been doing this for close to 25 years. I far from love it. It's ok, I'm good at it and I get paid alot to do it!

The pay part lets me:
- take care of my family
- spoil my wife
- raise the kids comfortably
- buy toys!
- go on an occassional hunting trip

It's a nice balance.