It was difficult for me to pick from these choices, given that I fall "in between."
Frankly, cities and architecture fascinate me, and I could never work in job, say, as a lawyer, or a "marketing professional" engaged in selling widgets to the world.
Am I excited about my current professional status? Not as much. I really like my coworkers, my bosses, and the organization I work for. I am paid fairly, the work is diverse and always changing, and I have good work-life balance. So, I ain't complaining.
I have less liking for the suburban town where I work, frankly. I am not always that engaged with the issues we face, and I thoroughly dislike some of the NIMBYism that we, as aplanners all face.
Despite my rather sharp rebukes to Super Amputee cat, I have to admit that I share his feeling of deeper malaise about current social, economic, and architecture trends. A suburban landscape of parking lots, giant outlet stores and Super Wal Marts really bothers me. But, that is not the Planning profession per se, that is "The World's Highest Standard of Living" at work, and I have no solutions nor would I suggest that "more planning" or "more regulations" are any solution. I sometimes believe the whole edifice will collapse of its own accord someday. Thankfully, I have no kids, because I don't know what kind of world they will be facing.
Boy, am I gloomy and wordy.