@geniusmusing @guizzy The only employer I ever wanted to have was Radio Shack, back when they had decent products and a technically-skilled workforce. At some point, they got taken over by a sales focus and both their level of service and the skill level of their employees fell.

Guess when I got hired as Christmas help at a Radio Shack owned store? Yeah, it was awful, mostly because $STORE sold a lot of refurbished electronics, so I might sell four $300-$400 all-in-one stereo systems, but if the buyer opened the box and tried to use it, they'd return it the next day. We were under a lot of pressure to hit our sales targets, but the products we were selling were already known to be broken.

Other than that and one other job (as a telemarketer), I have always learned to work hard enough that I can soon do the job as well as most of the people who are naturally talented in that area. There is joy that comes from doing a good job, from serving customers' needs despite idiotic "customer service" policies promulgated out of corporate offices, from producing a good product, and more of it than the run of the mill employee, from being asked to train the new hires because you do things so much better than the average person.

But, yeah, I've only once had a job that "fit" me by its very nature, and the company was gambling on a big expansion to become sustainably profitable. The expansion didn't complete fast enough, so they shut down.