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This  concept of finding high level satisfaction from one's job or needing to do something "important" is very much a "DC thing" (to go back to the OP's original point).  I dunno. My husband and i both have the best of the best DC jobs: high compensation, great hours, great titles and reputation, and really interesting work. Like, both of us are the people that are grad school peers point to as an ideal. The career services offices love to haul us out because our jobs are the kind that new students move to DC dreaming of. But enh.  I'm of the mindset that, let's say i'm doing something really important (like others above have cited).  So i quit my job and move to the mountains in tennessee.  Guess what?  Your employer will hire someone else and your work will still get done.  I think it's a coping method in DC to deal with the fact that we otherwise have to make a lot of compromises (see above).  My experience is people say that (i.e., "i couldn't possible leave DC, my job is too important, it provides me too much personal satisfaction) because they either haven't seen how good life can be outside this region, or they're too scared to confront the things that are missing from their lives. [/quote]

I think that's a little unfair. How many people post on here complaining about boring jobs, wondering how people end up in jobs they love, etc? I know the work will get done without me - I don't think  *I* am important. I find my work really challenging and my coworkers are smart and fun to work with. That's hard to walk away from when you know you're kind of lucky to have found it in the first place. The only think missing from my life is affordable housing that's not two hours away from my job![/quote]

+1 - also - the PP criticizing DCers needing "important" jobs - she has one!  While it does seem that she has some perspective on it - I question why she still has it.  Is it that easy to walk away from?  Does she not find satisfaction from it?

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