This new masterpiece … tasted like liquid cream cheese mixed with cold water and about 600 packets of sugar. … I grabbed the largest soup ladel with a sigh … I had wasted an entire Sunday and a boatload of ingredients – it was time to reap what I had sown.… Stupid? Of course. It’s about as stupid as one can get. This is a ridiculous and micro example of what people do on a larger scale with jobs all the time: self-imposed suffering that can be avoided.” -Tim Ferriss

This is true i believe. You continue doing a certain activity because of the amount of effort you put in is great. It may take your whole life dedicating in doing that particular activity, and when the end product is not satisfying or worthwhile, you continue doing that activity, like for example, eating up the cheesecake just because he already put in so much effort, and only by eating it will he feel justified with the effort of making the cake.

This is a small take on something that can be major, like for example, my nursing life. Im sure a lot of people work as nurses because they have already put in so much during their education, and when they realise they do not like it, they continued to work as nurses because of the mentality that they would not want to waste the 3 year effort in nursing. to people out there, if you dun like it, just quit. Its as simple as that. im sure these people dont just learn only nursing in their nursing schools. They brought in a lot of learning experiences like being independent, getting more mature, making more reliable friends, getting more creative. with that, they can not work as nurses but still get valuable knowledge out of the three years. Like Tim said, self imposed suffering can be avoided.