I love my job

I love my job. Maybe I dont say it enough. (Maybe I say it too much and you feel like I am rubbing it in.) Either way, I love it, and I think that is important. There are many times in my life when i felt like I was on a stepping stone. Whereever I was was not an end point. I usually enjoyed the stages of life, but I am finally at a place where I feel very content. There are things that I want and places I want to go, but as far as jobs go, I want to stay where I am at for awhile. I cannot imagine anywhere else in Kansas City where I would want to work.
I work at Mercy and Truth Birth Center. I am currently a nurse at the birth center. In nursing school I remember thinking that I should try to work somewhere other than labor and delivery because I assumed everyone wanted to work in that field. Untrue. I do not think it is for everyone. Also I never wanted to work in a hospital. People always told me I would have to get some general hospital experience before doing anything that i wanted to do. Also untrue. I have been at Mercy and Truth for a year now. August 3, 2008 was the first birth I got to be a part of. (there were two that day!) Looking back I realize that I have learned sooooo much. It makes me happy that I have come a long way and makes me wonder where I will be in a year.
I was at dinner the other day with someone, and I asked if he enjoyed his job. He kinda smiled and said, "not really... Somedays I don't mind it. I really miss teaching" It seems like a lot of people feel that way. He is in a career that he sometimes likes because he feels like he needs to make a certain amount of money to support his family. I can totally understand the need to provide for your family and I appreciate that his family is comfortable and he is not in debt (that I know of), but I feel so sad for people that are not content in their careers. I think you can make the best of anything, and some people just haven't found that thing that they love, but to stay in a job that you dont like when you have other options is hard for me to understand.
I think this is a blog that would make a good discussion. What do other people think about this? Is it more important to live comfortably or to be happy with your work?