How much are you supposed to enjoy your job? (Hint: Prefer to eat poisonous mushrooms than get out of bed in the morning? Probably not enough).

That is crazy... you would prefer to eat poisonous mushrooms than go to work? Where did you get such a whacked out idea man? Just have a sick day like everyone else. (Fake cough).

I'm kidding! It was my silly idea so please don't go poisoning yourself because of me.

Alright. So I have been thinking a lot lately about careers, and how to know if you've picked the right one. We all know the old saying "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" is utter horses#@%. Nobody loves every minute of every day. For starters everyone has to check emails-which is universally acknowledged to be a pretty rubbish job. (Except maybe Oprah who probably has midgets to do that while male models fan her with banana leaves.) (But l saw her interview With Hanson when I was 12, and even though I probably didn't have the quick wit or slang, pretty sure my 12-year-old self got off the couch and squealed "Damn, Oprah is working hard 2-niggghht" into the TV screen. Because seriously, trying to ask three pubescent boys questions while at least 500 pre-teen girls are squealing cannot be fun. No way Jose!)

So many of my friends subscribe to the new-age "I dont mind my job - but its not what I want to do forever" theory. And as Donna said on Neighbours on Friday night "You have to do what you love and that is all that really matters". Poignant. Deep. So deep. But is it really Donna? Is that really all that matters? (Shines bright torch in Donna's eye).

My auntie tells me, fairly regularly, that I make up a tiny part of the "entitled generation". Think we can have it all, and have it all right now. Excuse me for one second... Servant! Where are my cream buns and caramel latte?! Sorry.. where was I. Oh yes, entitlement. She says that she finds it hard to hire a young person who works to her level, and "back in her day" (1853) most people didn't have the luxury of chopping and changing careers to check whether the shoe would fit. (Note- checking if a shoe fits is a rubbish way to work out a good career for you. You probably already knew that. Moving on.)

So how to determine whether or not to stick it out? Or stick it to the man? I think that succeeding at anything in life just takes a bloody lot of hard work. If only that was one of my three talents (online tetris, tornado chasing, base jumping - obviously).