FeelingLost #CareerConfusion #PassionStruggles
Hey there! 🌟 Feeling lost and unsure of your career path is totally normal at your age. It’s okay to not have everything figured out right now. Here are some thoughts on what to do if you’re feeling passionate about nothing:
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Self-Reflection: Take some time to reflect on what truly interests you. What activities make you lose track of time? What topics do you find yourself constantly reading about or discussing with others?
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Explore New Opportunities: Consider trying out different hobbies, volunteering, or internships in fields you haven’t explored before. You might stumble upon something that sparks joy and passion within you.
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Seek Guidance: Talk to a career counselor or mentor to gain insights into your strengths, interests, and potential career paths that align with them. Sometimes an outside perspective can provide clarity.
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Practice Patience: Remember that finding your passion and a suitable career path takes time. It’s okay to explore different options and make changes along the way.
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Don’t Settle: Don’t feel pressured to stick with a career path just because you’ve invested time or money into it. Your happiness and fulfillment are worth more than any sunk costs.
- Consider Therapy: Sometimes feelings of lack of passion can be related to underlying issues like depression or anxiety. Speaking with a therapist can help you work through these emotions and gain clarity.
Remember, it’s okay to feel lost and uncertain. You’re not alone in this journey. Keep exploring, stay open to new possibilities, and trust that you will find your path in due time. 🌈✨ What tips do you have for someone struggling with finding their passion? Let’s chat!
Look for sthg that you can do and pays the bills. Save your passion for your hobbies
As someone who’s turning 30 soon explore, explore, or you will just be another person that just does a job because they have to find hobbies you’re passionate about too to see if they can go together.
Make money.
Better to be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
Get off social media and go out in the world and (re)connect with people, do stuff, read, start saying some positive affirmations to get your brain juices flowing, change your diet, seek therapy, take meds if they are prescribed, do some physical activities, do something kind for someone else, tell someone you love that you love them and give them a hug!
I’m totally NOT passionate about my job. In fact I hate it. I go to work every day solely for the money which should never be a reason you like your job. But hey, money is important too!! I do the things I’m passionate about, like cooking, blogging, dancing and food photography in my spare time. So don’t worry, sometimes that’s how things turn out. So my advice would be to get a job that earns you the money to do the things you are passionate about
Who said you have to be passionate about your work? Do you think Trash Collectors are passionate?
They’re hard-working, under-appreciated, vital to the function of our society… but passionate?
They also make significantly more than the average teacher in the US.
Work a job that pays well and make tons of money.
Also what happens in that once you start doing a job/business/profession you get to know more of it’s intricacies and often find something that interests you.
Just don’t stop keep doing good work
Jobs are not really about finding your passion in my experience.
It’s more about finding what you can tolerate for 40ish hours a week
Jobs aren’t designed to be fulfilling, they’re designed to get stuff done that nobody will do for free. So work for a living, and earn enough to live a fulfilling life.
It’s better to fail as much as you can in your 20s when you’re still young and flexible than to fail in your 30s. I’m 24 and I’m still trying to figure shit out. My interests went from engineering, to music, to psych, to religious studies, to political science, to finance and now I graduated and working in a bank but I’m still asking myself what I’m passionate about. I’d rather do that now than when I’m married or too old to not have my shit together. Don’t feel bad about yourself. Nobody knows what they’re doing.
You need to think about what you want from your life.
Do you want to have a job you’re passionate about? How much money do you need to feel safe and secure? Do you want to have children soon? Do you want work/life balance? Are you willing to work at a high-stress/lots of hours job now and then pull back later? What skills do you have? What kinds of jobs do you think you won’t like? How much debt can you handle? Understand that most jobs are harder at first until you acquire experience and a reputation.
Examples based on my friends and family:
Teacher- low pay, high stress, in some areas can be a decent way to have a career and also work if you have a spouse/partner since pay is low. Academia is an entirely different ballgame.
Chef: low pay for a while (at least), long hours, physically demanding. Culinary school is expensive.
Lawyer: can be high paying but also generally stressful and long hours. May acquire high student loan debt.
Finance: good to high pay, long or regular hours. Depends on type of job, benefits are generally good.
These are pretty broad generalizations and none of these are right or wrong, just examples of the kinds of things to think about
I wanted an office job that paid a decent amount and had good benefits. I’m not one to be career driven. I don’t want to work 80 hours a week, no matter what it pays. I’m good at organization and problem solving. I have accounting, tech, and project management skills. I got a job in an office for a major finance company. It’s not something any 17 year old would say they want to be when they grow up, but I now own a house and a car, and am on a good path to retirement. I can spend time with my family and friends. I don’t have children.
There’s no universal right answer. You need to think about what you want and need and what you know about yourself and make decisions from there. Also, sometimes even if you don’t know what you do want, you know what you don’t. That’s all good information.
You may change your answers in a few years, but having a plan based on sitting down and thinking about it will help you more in the future than “letting the wind blow you around”.