Agreed - there's more to life than a so-called "good job". You spend at least a third of your life at work and another third sleeping. Everything else - commuting, vacations, time with family, meals, chores, whatever - happens in that last third. So from a time management standpoint it's ludicrous to spend that much time at a job you're less than thrilled with - you're investing as much of your "time capital" into that job as with EVERYTHING else in your life put together. Make it count. Make it worth it.
If you think you made the right choice, you probably did!
I believe you said earlier you're thirty years old - that's WAY too young to be shackling yourself to some stuffy bureaucrat public sector position just for the illusion of security! Live a little! Build your own way as best you can!
As a cynical aside, do you seriously think our generation is going to have pensions, retirement funds, etc. by the time we're in our 60s / 70s ("retirement age") anyway? I wouldn't spend my life suffering for a pension - chances are by the time our generation is retirement age they'll no longer exist anyway (the gov't will have confiscated them or they'll be "means tested" or taxed into oblivion). And "retirement age" will be unlikely to be 65 or 67 - most likely we're all going to be working well into our 70s. The Baby Boomers sold us down the river. All the more reason to make sure you really like where you are job-wise!
My advice - work somewhere you like going to every day, have fun, spend your money on things that matter and give you happiness, get rid of debt (as a general rule the less time you spend in banks and courthouses the better off you're going to be), stay single, sock away some money in TANGIBLE assets that can be sold or traded later (i.e. NOT worthless pieces of paper - things like land, precious metals, land, tools, land, guns / ammo, land, water supplies, land, fuel, what-have-you...
). When / if the SHTF down the road (currency collapse or other calamitous event) all the people with everything in "accounts" (stocks, bonds, banks, etc.) will be struggling and you just might find yourself in an enviable position having real things of value to barter with. Anything you can sell for at least what you bought it for is a decent thing to have around - there are lots of options. Remember that every dollar in someone else's "account" is now THEIR money - not yours. It's vulnerable to their mismanagement as well as to the wiles of idiot politicians and / or greedy Wall Street bankers - both of whom are leading us straight to eventual ruin at a shockingly quick pace. I don't want to sound too pessimistic or alarmist but cover your ass - have your "retirement fund" too, but don't bank on it 100%. Hedge yourself. Don't ever count on an "account" to be your retirement lifeboat, be it a pension, social security, a stock / investment account, whatever.
Bottom line - there's way, way, WAY more to life than just a paycheck or getting led along by some "carrot dangler" selling you the illusion of security in exchange for your youth. The reality is our generation will have NO security other than that which we make for ourselves. Live it, love it, enjoy it while you can and set yourself up well for the future by getting rid of debt, socking away some money, getting some tangible ASSETS that have / keep value and live in a place you like. Cheers!