Great Work

The YouTube video below is the 2005 Stanford Commencement speech by Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs.

About half way through he says, "I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisifed is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

He follows that with the story of his brush with death in the form of pancreatic cancer. All of it touches on why the position declaring 'the job is not the point' has never set well with me.