The Happiness at work Matrix - 4Ps

For me there are four important factors that decide if the  time  I spent at work was worthwhile or not .They are what I call the 4Ps -

• People - This is the most important factor for me.I really like being with people who are smarter than me(oh which is not that hard to find) , people who I respect and  and people who are fun to work with.

• Problem - This is the problem you are trying to solve at work, which is the second most important thing for me.This is how excited are you to work on the problem, it doesn't have to be rocket science to be fun, for example on my first project creating a web page was like an amazing experience.

• Power - This is the third most important thing.This is the amount of influence you have at the place you work, how much people listen to your opinions and how important they think you are to the project.I think this directly is related to how you are "growing" at work, the higher your power the faster you are growing

• PayCheck -The obvious one, how much you make

So you  can draw a little matrix with years as the Y axis and the 4Ps on the X and mark it Blue if that P was good for you for that year, Orange for medium and Red for bad.It should give you a good perspective of how your years went by.Here is mine.Just because I have so many blues for the Pay Check  does not mean I am like the best paid guy around - everything is your perspective of things so all it means when a blue is there is that I "thought" I was doing good on that P