With all the talk lately about work needing to be fulfilling and
rewarding, some people have misconstrued that to mean that work HAS to
be fun.  While many parts of work can be — and are — fun (especially
when you’re engaged in a rewarding, fulfilling career,) it’s certainly
not always fun.  That’s why they call it work.  Otherwise, it would be
called fun.  As I’ve said before, even when you start to get paid for
something that used to be fun, you start to see the fun slip away.

Work is (at least it should be) satisfying, rewarding, fulfilling,
and educational. . .  for the most part.  But there are also times when
it can be frustrating, difficult, and downright horrible.  That doesn’t
mean you have a bad job.  That just means it’s work.  The bad helps you
appreciate the good.  If your job is rewarding most of the time, you’re
in a good place.  If some days are absolutely horrible, well, that’s
why they call it work.  The rule of thumb here is what percentage of
your time at work are rewarding and fulfilling, and what percentage is
negative?  If you swing to the positive side, don’t be too quick to go
off in search of the holy grail.