One of the books, To Work and To Love by Dorothee Soelle, speaks of work as a treadmill. She recounts that the treadmill was originally a means of torture and that many people today feel alienated from their work. We punch a clock and do what the boss tells us to but have no chance to do our own planning or develop our own strategies. Work becomes a form of wage prostitution and not an opportunity for growth or self-development. Next I turned to some of James Fowler's writings.
Fowler talks more about vocation than about job.
He writes that our vocation is linked to that place in our heart where we realize we are intended for some purpose beyond mere survival, that we are here on earth to further some cause that is of transcending importance. I am being asked to look into myself and find the deeper motivations of my soul. I need to align myself with these motivations before I will be happy. Fowler helps me realize that I am missing this element of devotion or service. I had taken the new job to fulfill some of my ego's goals and desires but had forgotten that my soul will find satisfaction only when it is rightly related to God.