Eating well and exercising regularly are both essential to physical, mental and emotional well being, but there is something else that contributes to overall thriving, and that is friendship. Friendship is POWERFUL medicine.
Look at your life as it stands today. Does your present occupation support you, not just financially but emotionally? Whatever you need to do to make your relationship with your job feel good, become meaningful, and fulfill you, make those changes now.
Our emotions are influenced by the emotions of others and vice versa. This works in the positive and the negative sense of emotional contagion, which ties us back to the idea of peopling our lives with positive people who lift us up, not bring us down.