How can I discover my purpose and find fulfillment in life at 25 with a degree but still feeling confused?
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Feeling Lost at 25
I envy those who have their life figured out, but I’m 25 with a degree and still unsure about my path. Can you help me find my purpose and pursue what truly makes me happy?
Discovering Your True Calling
- Reflect on your passions and interests
- Explore different career options
- Seek guidance from mentors or career counselors
- Experiment with different activities or hobbies
Don’t think of it as one static thing only. You can be passionate about work/life/family/play. what ever. Those things can be at the same time or different times. They can change from passion for teaching to passion for finance. Don’t get stuck on the “One and done, lock it in Eddy”. Instead play around and find out
Whenever I have free time, I do whatever I want and I try not to think about work and all the other warring stuff
And learn new skill or something like that right now I’m learning new languages and that is some thing that I do every day and it makes me feel like I have a chief something every day
There are many other things to do also depends on your situation, and and your life
You won’t love any job. Every job worth doing is nothing but problems. To solve them is the purpose. Problems suck.
That said, you can find something that at least doesn’t feel useless. Look around and find problems you want to see solved. Then Go and help with that. This way you at least have a reason to get up.
When you have that figured out find a company where you arent worked to death and with people you like beeing around.
The job then still sucks most of the time, but you wont mind going there.
I think we all have multiple passions but we live in a world where we have to choose only one (or none) to focus on due to college prices. If it were affordable we could all study and get degrees in multiple things and do multiple things in our lifetime. Like someone else said, you can be passionate about many different things even if it’s not related to careers. I also envy people who know exactly what they wanna do and stick with it and love it, it seems so easy and idk how they do it. There are so many things I’m passionate about and I wish I had enough time in this lifetime to devote myself equally to all of them but I cannot. I am struggling with choosing what career field to go into and this is one of the biggest reasons. I don’t have much advice as I am struggling with it myself, but don’t stress too much about not having one singular precise passion. I feel like most people don’t.
I’m 36 yo this year and I dont have any other direction in life apart from making sure I am able to provide for my family. I thought about the same thing as you when I was in my early 20’s. But looking back, I think it was mainly because I was single and not much responsibilities in life. Now that I have responsibilities like bills, mortgage, a child… I dont really care much if Im doing a job that I love. I just want to make sure its a job I can do well so I get paid well enough to enjoy life outside my job. What I love is being with my family. Thats what I want to do. And the job is just a means to pay for the luxury of being able to take vacations with my family or buy things we want and need.
For me it’s more about meeting a set of requirements more so than finding the perfect career. I can be happy doing a lot of things, and hopefully will get to do a lot of things.
1. I like working with data to solve or optimize for economical problems.
2. I like the physical world. I don’t want to work in an abstract industry, I need to touch the product.
3. I have hobbies, my job needs to let me do these.
4. I need to have creative control of my work.
5. My boss needs to not be a dick.
If I get these 5 things I am pretty happy. I work as a data scientist now. Also helping my wife run a garden center. Both of these are very different, both make me happy.
I’m in a similar boat. 23. Never had a job. Half way through a masters degree and I feel so fucking directionless. I wanna quit the masters and do something outside of academia because my 1 year in academia is fucking my mental health so badly. But idk what to do with myself.
Keep a balance, do some things and take care of yourself and oalso do ther things for others, take care of others …
Hunger gives you purpose, fulfillment, I’m not there yet
You don’t have to love what you do, but just not mind the work. For me it’s not involved with people and behind the scenes so I can listen to music and podcasts and plug away
I’m in the same position. I’m planning to switch my career for data science but I’m not sure
Pay attention to what your naturally gravitated to. What is it that you will do without anyone having to ask you to or make you? My wife loves to craft things. I love to solve computer problems. There is something that you are drawn to that can translate to a job.
Is there literally like a test that you can take that can point you in the right direction? I’m asking this because I’m literally directionless rn and wake up every day wanting and needing some type of purpose to get me out of bed every day..I just need hope that its something for everyone
Oh my. You are a baby. Give it some time
This narrative that work needs to be fulfilling and should take precedence to family is such bullshit. Work to live, don’t live to work. Hobbies and interests lead to relationships and there is enormous purpose in those things. Become amazing at something, art has so many different forms. Find your art, find your people. And, everyone’s ultimate purpose is to usher humanity forward, nothing is more fulfilling than having kids and raising them to be people you’re proud of.
-From another 25 year old, who is struggling just like you. Zoom out, do what you have to do, and LAUGH AND SMILE 🙂
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The only thing I can offer is what my co-worker told me sometime in the 1990s: “Work to live, don’t life to work.”
Life is short. We focus on work way too much, and that consumes us. In the end, while on our deathbed we’re not going to wish we had more time left to work. Go *do* the thing that you think you would regret not doing, learning or seeing. That is where fulfillment comes from.
I am envious of those people too, but I think it is rare to know exactly what you want at any given time.
Pre-COVID, I wanted to be a teacher, but did not like the quality of life salary wise that came with it. So when I was looking for higher paying jobs, I volunteered as a tutor at my local library and I loved it! Volunteering is a great way to pursue your passions and maybe even find a way to make it a full time gig.
I’m in my late 20s and I think that feeling you’re having doesn’t go away. I guess it is all about finding things you love outside of work that motivate you to get up to clock into the 9-5.
Maybe networking a bit would help. Talk to people from other lines of work and see if there’s anything that intrigues you.
Purpose? Like other than enjoy each day and being grateful? I don’t understand
One day the sun will explode and all you’ve done willll ne for nothing in the future.
By living in the moment 🙂
I feel you. What has worked well for me in finding purpose and doing something I love is through starting side projects/hustles. I find the challenge of creating something, learning new skills, and the creative outlet it provides to be extremely fulfilling. I highly recommend making something of your own, whether it’s a blog, an online store, freelancing, wtvr really. You don’t need to find fulfillment through your day job.
I don’t think purpose is singular, it’s more about applying yourself to situations that you find most engaging.
Identify the places/situations where you exist at our natural best. Anyone can do this, and it forms the basis for greater fulfilment.
I am at my natural best, when I am cultivating the landscape, so that ideas may flourish.
Don’t overthink it is how I live 🫠
It either happens by chance or it doesn’t. You then just kill time being bored busy.
Experiences.
What if…what you define as purpose and fulfillment changes? Because you know what? It
will. At 25 most people have no idea what drives them. I certainly had no idea what would bring me fulfillment. I had to try things, learn things. What gets you excited? Gets you out of bed? What do you want to do that seems hard to do, but when you break it down, can be done? Do what seems a little out there and people will question it.
I don’t have an answer for you and no one does. It’s the search. But if you keep searching you’ll realize who you are and what matters to you. Not to someone else. Follow that, even if it feels like it’s not what’s expected. Especially follow that.
Yes omg ever since I turned 25 Ive lacked so much passion/ drive i just do not know what to do anymore. When I was in college i had so many dreams and it was so exciting to think or “see” what the future was going to hold yet it is literally nothing yet. Doesn’t help also when it feels like everyone else around me is thriving and im still stuck. This age sucks so bad!!!