सहजं कर्म कौन्तेय सदोषमपि न त्यजेत्।सर्वारम्भा हि दोषेण धूमेनाग्निरिवावृताः॥
saha-jaṃ karma kaunteya sa-doṣam api na tyajetsarvārambhā hi doṣeṇa dhūmenāgnir ivāvṛtāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
The work you were born to should not be given up even though it has faults in it, Arjuna. Every undertaking is wrapped in some fault, as fire is wrapped in smoke.
In plain words
And a line that takes the pressure off everything just said.
Every undertaking has something wrong with it. All of them. The image is fire and smoke: you do not get one without the other.
So the fault in your work is not a sign that you have chosen wrongly. It is a sign that you have chosen something.
Where you've felt this · at work
Nikhil leaves a job because of one thing about it he cannot stand. The new place is better in that way and has a different problem he had not imagined. Three years later he leaves again. By the fourth job he works out that he was not finding the wrong places. He was expecting a place without smoke.
Going deeper
Every undertaking carrying some fault is an unusually realistic thing for a religious text to say, and it defuses a particular kind of paralysis.
The smoke image is exact. Smoke is not a flaw in a fire that better technique would remove. It is what combustion produces. In the same way, the trouble in your work is produced by the work being real rather than imagined.
This matters because the search for the clean option can consume a life. Any path examined closely enough reveals its compromises, so a person who requires one without them will keep moving and will never be anywhere long enough to get good at anything.
So the question changes shape. Not whether the thing has faults, which it does, but whether its particular faults are ones you can work alongside for years. That is answerable, and it is the only version of the question that ever gets answered.