Are you being held hostage by a narcissist?

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/why-we-love-narcissists/

Follow your passion? Here's a more realistic approach.

"The conventional wisdom on career success—follow your passion—is seriously flawed. It not only fails to describe how most people actually end up with compelling careers, but for many people it can actually make things worse: leading the chronic job shifting and unrelenting angst when one's reality inevitably falls short of the dream. But if 'follow your passion' is bad advice, what should we do instead? The answer begins with recognizing the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return. In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job. This argument flips conventional wisdom. It relegates passion to the sidelines, claiming that this feeling is an epiphenomenon of a working life well lived. Don't follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to achieve mastery."—Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You

Top 10 signs you're unhappy at work

http://positivesharing.com/2007/11/top-10-signs-youre-unhappy-at-work/

I'm sure I have had all of these feeling at some time during my career.  The challenge is to recognize them before you are ready to resign or burn the building down-- and then come up with a plan to change, and execute that plan, before someone else's plan gets executed on you!