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This is actually a job thread. The reality of the economy is that nobody is actually happy, jobs are not meant to serve that purpose(even at google, those toys are just mouse wheels to keep you more effective). Most jobs are basically configured for drones, they are made to minimize costs and risk for the parent company. Your best real bet to simulate the thrill, the risk, the challengin nature of life, the things we are made to do and the things we live to do.

Your best bet is either sales and you crush it. I mean really give 100% engaging more than 200 neurons(so no simple sales models, just hard sales) all the time.(but watch out as the efficiency monsters sanitize and micromanage even that) or enterpreneurship. Don't aim to be steve jobs, the satisfaction is just as great when you solve small problems and you have a faster turn over. Now Like any beast, the economy's biggest pain, the relentless and inhumane drive for profits(not saying it's bad, just saying it's not really suitable in a post existential society) can be it's biggest weak point, because if you drive profits and create a business to business company, you will finally have both autonomy and income as long as you keep your head on straight.

Some would argue non-profits, just no. If you are a child, cool, dream of saving the world, but in reality nobody actually cares, it's a feel good industry with a dependance on excess capital. Excess capital, that is more often than not taken by vultures because people are assholes.(you are also an asshole BTW if you get paid by a non-profit, because you get money for doing what you love and what you believe in, money that people donate to causes and expect to actually affect the needy, which is definitely NOT you)