First, kudos for being forthcoming with your career choices, thought processes and the like. But I have to admit that the immediate thought I had when I read the post was, "Wow, this dude sure has a romantic notion of what working as a/an - insert career choice - is."

And to be honest, I was rather offended for teachers and social workers out there when you wrote that their work offers little to no "mental challenge", or that they are merely executing "government policies". And also how their work are not "helping people".

Rude.

Anyways, as the above posters have rightly pointed out, we will need to know more about this "mental challenge" that we see all over the post.