#CareerDilemma #PassionVsSalary #MiddleClassDreams
Hey everyone! 👋 Have you ever felt pressured to find a job you’re passionate about in order to succeed? I’ve been hearing this a lot lately, and it’s making me wonder – if I’m not passionate about any job or career, does that mean I’m doomed to minimum wage forever? 😧
I’ve been exploring different career options, but nothing seems to spark my interest. The idea of being stuck in a job that doesn’t excite me while barely making ends meet is seriously daunting. Can anyone relate?
Here are a few thoughts on possible solutions you could consider:
– Research high-demand industries or jobs that may not require a specific passion
– Explore careers with opportunities for growth and advancement
– Consider developing skills that are valuable across various industries
– Seek out mentors or career counselors for guidance and advice
What do you think? Have you found yourself in a similar situation, and how did you navigate it? Let’s share our experiences and insights to support each other on this journey to finding a fulfilling and financially stable career path! 💼✨
Jobs (money) are used to build a happy life for yourself.
Grind, save, invest.
Then retire early and do the stuff you enjoy doing.
You’re not always going to find passion in a career. I’d say find something you’re good at, can tolerate, and pays well.
just get a corporate job, no one really works and the pay is decent
You will learn that most people aren’t that passionate but they do something they got a hang of that pays the bills
Definitly not, I am in no way passionate about my work and I’d say st peast half of the people I work with are the same and these are very seasoned workers in a highly skilled sector. Just be good at faking it when required.
If possible find something in what you do that you do care about and focus on that.
Well let me be the first to tell you that you don’t have to be passionate about your job or career. What you do need is a job or career you can go to every day and make a wage sufficient to pay your bills. If you like it, it’s a bonus. Reserve your passions for your hobbies and free time.
I’d say you need to be passionate about success, no matter your profession.
Use that to fuel you – especially in a job you’re not too keen on. WHen you do your best, others can see, take notice, and you never know where other opportunities come from.
No. It just means you’re doomed to not feel passion towards whatever job you have.
I wouldn’t say I’m passionate about most of my job. Like I really don’t care much about what my company sells. I have a degree of passion towards our customers, that they receive what they paid for in good condition and of good quality.
I do have passion for my coworkers. As things grow and change in my business there’s always something new our teams have to learn about or how to use, there’s policies and processes etc. When I can help our teams do their jobs more easily, or at least handle a big change smoothly, I feel I’ve contributed and when I see something that blocks our team from doing their job- wasting company time and usually annoying employees I feel strongly about fixing it. So idk. Don’t want to go into specifics but I’d say there are ways to find passion about parts of your job that can work out in a career.
Also I work with Salespeople. Id say there’s many of them who only really have passion for making money, and they will work passionately to ensure they get the biggest commission possible. So yeah- there’s jobs that are more than $15/hr that don’t require a specific passion.
The advice you’re receiving sounds like something a teacher or a social worker would say. And it’s true, those kinds of jobs are emotionally taxing and usually don’t pay well. I certainly don’t “change the world” everyday in my job, but again there’s a couple hundred people I work with who are able to feed and house their families, send their kids to college, and more – because of the jobs we have so yeah, there’s value there.
Find a job or skill that interests you. Like cooking? How about working on cars? Sitting and staring at a computer? Once you find one you can tolerate, adjust your lifestyle to live off the salary a job like that can provide. .
You don’t have to be passionate about something to be good at it. I’m hardly passionate about my career. It pays the bills and takes up about 9 hours of my day Monday-Friday. I am good at what I do and people know that I know my shit. But if I were to come into a bunch of money tomorrow, that would be my last day working.
You will become passionate once you become good at something and start earning real money.
Search “scott Galloway career advice” on Youtube. You will find lots of videos where he explains his take in building a good career
You just gotta be passionate enough to want a better job. It eventually works itself out. If you don’t care at all you will stay put. But you’ll get sick of it one day and say enough is enough and that’ll spark something for you if nothing else will
Go get your CDL and start seeing the country
It’s a good thing you realize this now. Just do something that makes good money n like they said before you can tolerate. Military trade school just something in demand . Some people don’t see this till their 40s and try to live their passion but can’t because they’re broke and have kids.
don’t think passion, think, “hey, I’m pretty good at this”
go towards whatever seems interesting or sounds good to you. try lots of things. only way to find out.
really get a good sense of your likes and dislikes.
as for careers, think about what the end game is. what good is happening in the world as a result of that career? then work backwards from that.
if you can think about how you can do your best to make good things happen in the world, you’ll be off to a good start.
so ask yourself, what are good things happening the world? what are bad things happening in the world?
who do you find admirable? who do you find icky? if you had to just jump in and do one job, any job, how would that make you feel?
just keep asking these questions and keep looking at where the answers are pointing you towards
I thought about what I valued in a career. I wanted stability, benefits, work from home, PTO, Mon-Friday, low stress job with good growth potential and career opportunities. I settled on cybersecurity and got into the industry about a year ago. I am absolutely blessed. I do enjoy my work but I wouldn’t say I’m bleeding passion for it but it allows me to balance my life so that I can focus on the things I’m actually passionate about like my family or health and fitness. Perhaps think of the things you want in a career and not necessarily the career itself. Do you want to make a lot of money, or work with people, travel, perhaps work outdoors? What do you value in life?
No. You think most people in the world are passionate about their work? I hate every job I’d ever had but my stress tolerance is ultra fuckin high and I’m passionate about that bag. Luckily data analysis and recruitment directing is somewhat tolerable. Chase passion and you’ll be broke af unless you’re incredibly lucky.
You don’t have to be passionate about your job to still like it. I work in insurance and am not passionate about it whatsoever but I don’t dislike it. My daily tasks are never dull, it pays me well, has good benefits, I like my schedule and I get to work from home a few days. So no you don’t have to be passionate about it, just find something you don’t hate and it’s fine. You can have passion in your hobbies, extracurriculars
That is entirely up to you
I never had a passion, I just went with what came easy. Don’t let people tell you that nonsense. You don’t need passion to get a job skill.
There are very few people who are passionate about the nuts and bolts of their job – the day to day tasks.
But many people love their jobs for the cultural aspects. Typically you hear things like:
1. Interacting with smart or nice people. Being part of a team.
2. Solving problems
3. Building something new and different
4. Being great at something
5. Helping others
When you search for your career path, dont look so much at skills and responsibilities, look for the culture aspects that will satisfy your interpersonal needs, your ego, your sense of responsibility, your sense of community, your sense of worth..
These ultimately will bind you to your next job.
Good luck.
I used to work in videogame and so many people have told me that my job is so cool and that I am so lucky and that they would so want to work in videogame because it is their passion. But apparently not their passion enough to get off their butt and learn 3d or drawing or coding.
So they never believed me when I said that, you know, it’s a job. You don’t always want to get up in the morning. Some managers are idiots. Not all tasks are fun and some projects suck.
So maybe you aren’t passionate about a job the same way that these people are passionate about videogames. But it’s ok. Because doing the work is often not the same as thinking about the industry.
My wife’s passion is teaching. Turns out being a public school teacher is soul crushing so she is seeking a new job after nearly a decade in the biz. She still loves to teach though. It’s the everything else (behavioral issues, low pay, entitlement, asshole parents, useless administrators,catty coworkers, etc) that sucks. I imagine many jobs are like that.
Does making $15 an hour for life interest you? I’d much rather be cubicle Carl making $150 an hour than the same dude making $15 in a different cubicle.
Yes
I’m never passionate about what I do. But I do want to do a good job no matter what it is. So I do, and it eventually becomes a self fulfilling thing.
Work to live, don’t live to work. You don’t have to be passionate about a well paying job. You just need to find something you can stand to do.
I can promise you I’m not passionate about cell towers but I’ve built a career in the telecom industry
Keep trying new things. Eventually something will click.
Find something you don’t mind doing that pays well
You don’t have to be passionate. Find something you can do, and doesn’t make you miserable. Hopefully with some nice coworkers and some type of advancement path.
I don’t love my job. But I love the pay and benefits I get as a union worker. Plus I don’t have corporate bs meeting, emails, phone calls or training sessions all day.
We make enough to be a single income family.
Money provides me plenty of motivation..
No. I just googled highest paying college majors and went with one of those. I don’t like my job but that’s true for most people making minimum wage too.