I probably wrote something about my job and my attitude towards it already, but here's some detail if anyone cares:
I work for the biggest municipality in Denmark - and I know many around here seem to think our work is important. It is, in a way - because it's part of a huge system that's put in place to make life livable in Copenhagen.
Problem for me, though, is that I have a very low opinion of how people have chosen to structure society - and even if Denmark is established as the "happiest" place in the world, I still think it's a bad joke in terms of the potential. We might be very fortunate in terms of equality when contrasted with places like America - but, believe me, there's no shortage of corruption, sexism, racism or incompetent leaders around here.
Now, I'm not personally suffering in any way - but a lot of people are, and most people are quite affected by how we (consciously or not) divide people into classes or levels of value. I have the utmost lack of respect for that mindset - so I could never, ever, feel comfortable supporting a system that destructive.
Meaning, there's really no formal job I could hold that would make me satisfied or happy on the whole.
Like all systems governed and monitored by man - it's subject to the failings of man - and they are many and wide.
For my own part, I'm lucky in that I've been given an unusual amount of freedom and trust to do what I do, because I work in a relatively exclusive area (print management) - and of all the areas that are kept dry under the umbrella known as IT, printers and print management are largely unknown entities in terms of people having any kind of formal education in the field.
There's really no established course you can take that will teach you about printers - so the vast majority of people who deal with IT really have no understanding or - more importantly - interest in printers or how to manage them on a large scale.
This means my group (we call ourselves the print-server group) - is pretty much left to its own devices - because no one else around here can really tell what the hell we're doing anyway.
That suits me very well indeed, because I don't really work well with people telling me what to do - unless they really, really know what they're talking about - and that's very rare in my experience.
My salary is modest - but not terrible. I would earn at least twice what I earn if I was working in the private sector - if not three times as much.
But I despise the private sector and I could never function where money is king.
So, I make do with my privileges and freedom and I'm reasonably happy where I am, when the circumstances I mentioned above are kept in mind.