#JobSatisfaction #PassionAtWork #CareerFulfillment
Hey everyone! I’m really curious about something. When it comes to your jobs, how do you feel about what you do day in and day out? Are you genuinely enjoying it, or is it more of a “just getting by” situation? I’d love to hear your stories, especially if you’ve found that sweet spot where work meets passion. How did you come to discover what fuels your enthusiasm?
I’m currently navigating my late twenties, searching for a job that feels right for me. Honestly, it’s been a bit of a struggle. I often wonder: why do so many people choose to give up their happiness for a job they don’t like? 🤔 Why work for someone else instead of pursuing our own dreams? It’s a tough question, right?
We all know that earning a living is essential for basic survival, like food and shelter. But isn’t it a little disheartening to think about spending the best years of our lives in a job that doesn’t bring joy? 😟 These feelings can lead to:
- Burnout: When your job isn’t fulfilling, it can drain your energy and enthusiasm.
- Stress: Constantly feeling unfulfilled at work can contribute to anxiety and other mental health issues.
- Loss of motivation: It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re not passionate about what you’re doing.
So, what’s the solution? I believe we can start by:
- Exploring our interests: Think about what truly excites you and look for jobs that align with those passions.
- Networking: Connect with people in fields that intrigue you; they might provide insight or opportunities you haven’t considered.
- Continuous learning: Consider taking courses or attending workshops related to your interests. This can open doors to new possibilities! 🎓
I’d love to hear from you! Have you found happiness in your job? How did you discover what you love to do? Share your experiences, tips, or even challenges you’ve faced along the way. Let’s help each other out! 😊
I don’t mind going to work and like my job as much as one can like a job but no I am not passionate about it. You need to find your fulfillment outside of work. Get a hobby, volunteer, do whatever makes you happy. The job is just a means to an end for 99% of people. The sooner you realize that, the better.
I’m content. Work is work so there are cons of course just like with any job, but my career works for me/my lifestyle so I can’t complain
I’m a business owner and I also have a full time job.
You can either work 40 hours a week helping someone else get rich or you can work 24/7 and maybe, possibly get rich yourself after many years of hard work but have little safety net in the meantime.
I personally like my job. I wouldn’t say I’m passionate about it but I enjoy it and find it mentally stimulating. I also like the stability. I like my office and coworkers, the office is near my home, and the pay is a little low but decent.
I also like having a little side income from my businesses but they don’t leave me a ton of personal time.
Ultimately, if you do not have something you are wildly passionate about, then you need to find fulfillment outside of work. Not everyone is meant to be some life changing doctor or invent a product that will change the world. And that’s okay. There are 7 billion people on the planet. Some of us are going to work at a gas station, other people will have a 9-5 and some people will be business owners and everything in between.
Im neither passionate nor enjoy my job anymore. I stay at it because the money is good and the rota I works affords me a lot of time off.
It is a trap and I need to get myself in the mindset of changing my role to be keen again, whilst also kickstarting my personal progression.
Constant negativity, (metaphorically) wiping adults arses and people below you who always think they would do better have a tendency to grind you down after a pronged period of time.
Are you married with kids? That changes your perspective a lot
No.
High earner professionist here, profundly despise my job, saving 50% of my income to coast fire with a low stress Part-time job asap
I’m pretty miserable at this point. No guidance, years of “raises” that don’t even pace inflation, management with completely unrealistic deadlines.
Passionate? No. Do I enjoy my job well enough? Yes, and for that I am grateful. I don’t get the Sunday scaries anymore like when I had some other jobs. I like my boss, I have decent hours, and I don’t mind doing my job. I prefer to spend time at my home with my family but all things considered I’m pretty content.
I am analytics working in electric energy field. I deffiniatelly love my job. I discoverd it when another comany called me if i want a job. I contacted one of my prodessors from University and he told me about this oportunaty and now after almost one year it is very good decision to work here. I always wanted to work in power energy (electricity) so it was no brainer to work here.
Not really, no. I’m currently in the security field and it seems as though no one here is “normal”
I’m either stuck with coworkers who are WAY too willing to be underpaid and/or “go above and beyond” ie making everyone else who isn’t willing to be Top Flight Security for $18 or the dumbest bumblefucks in the state who I frankly don’t understand how they passed the psych eval / testing to get in. I’ve stagnated here for about 4-5 years just on auto pilot and i regret not doing online college sooner as I likely would’ve gotten a better job by now or additional schooling (or be in more debt and struggling since I now have a very expensive free cat who needs constant vet attention due to being special needs)
I’m content, I work from home, it’s not stressful and I don’t do overtime. I could move to a job that pays more, but I’d like to enjoy my situation for a bit first.
I’m generally happy with my job – but I’m really unhappy with the pay. It will pain me to leave, but I can make 10-20k more working for a competitor.
I love my job.
Good pay, lots of free time.
I’m a Dialysis Nurse. I work 3 days a week, no nights, no weekends. Almost completely autonomous.
I always like helping people, but I despise being micro managed and I don’t work best when on a team. Very much a lone wolf type, mainly because I’m a super nerd with poor social skills. I have difficulty being assertive in teams. Though I can be when it matters.
I knew I didn’t want to work in hospitals and didn’t want to work the classic 9-5 office clinic.
So, dialysis does not require a physician on site, but it does require both technical skills to run the machines as well as medical knowledge to manage patient care while removing the entirety of someone’s blood multiple times over per treatment. Especially when doing it to 7 patients at a time.
The down side, it is difficult to get coverage if I get sick because of license requirements. I cannot be late for work, I have two shifts a day if I’m late it means the patient gets less than adequate care. Life threatening consequences can occur.
I get to know my patients very well, unfortunately there is a very high death rate. It is emotionally taxing.
I’m passionate about parts of my job, and I try to really focus on those good days, and try my best to avoid the parts that I dislike.
I have also tried to become better at quickly solving the cases I dislike, so I can move on and chase those good days and Wins.
At this point, most days are good – sometimes bad – on the bad days, I think about the good days and the good times I have had in this job.
And if things get really shitty, I just think about my shitty days while I was in the army. Everything becomes pretty easy then!
So, yeah, perspective. It’s okay to not be super happy every day. Thats life.
I currently work as a medical microbiologist and love it. Basically we get a sample from an infected site of a patient, grow the bugs, and test the bugs on various drugs to see which one works and which ones don’t. It’s fascinating and fulfilling, and pays well here in California.
How did I figure it out? Not until I was 40 lol. I’ve always worked in the medical field tho… helping patients has always been fulfilling.
I’m not passionate, but also I don’t hate or dread going to work.
I try to be grateful to have a job and be able to pay bills and have some money leftover to spend. There are people worse off, homeless, or stressing financially.
Not really but it’s fine. It gives me enough time with my daughter so it’s ok. I don’t find it fulfilling but it’s in a field that a lot of people would love to work in so I need to try to be more grateful. I’m not really sure any job would give me full satisfaction but my family do ❤️
No man … no.
I’m not passionate but I’m not unhappy either. I’m merely tolerant of my job and see it as a means to an end.
I don’t dread going to work every day, I get my own desk, and the work is pretty easy, so sure. I wouldn’t say I’m passionate, but I do like my job
No I’m not going to divulge what it is because you’re not going to be able to work here anyway and it’s a niche thing. Pretty much a unicorn job
I love my job. I’m a psychologist working in consulting, but I plan on going out on my own. I see my current job as a stepping stone, learning all I can from the best in the industry so I can apply that to my future business.
Have you tried speaking with a career coach? Understanding your personality better can really help determine what job your natural preferences may align with. 🙂
I’ll give you a tip: who you work with matters more for your happiness then what you do.
The job itself, i can’t say i’m crazy about it. There were moments when i felt like that was it – too much is too much! Any job is like that: has good and bad. It was always the people i worked with that made the difference: i made good friends from my colleagues and folks in the industry and even if the job gets crazy at some times, it’s still ok.
Also, I like to do stuff outside of work. The job is there to pay the bills and sponsor your passion. I don’t think i’d ever want to make my passion my job because if my welfare depended on me being motivated every day, I’d start to hate it.
NO! Not even close to what my expectations were while joining. Now secretly hoping that they fire me since I can’t leave cause of contract. I wake up with stressful thoughts, no work life balance. Just feels like a lot atm.
No.
15 years in my field with a 4 year degree and 2 certifications and the secretaries here make 20k more than I do.
I only started this career because it was what I knew. I wish to high hell that I was passionate about something, but I’m just not. I feel confident I would approach work with a better attitude if I enjoyed what I did.
I look for jobs twice a day and still haven’t found something I think I would enjoy doing.
I’m here for the paycheck and that alone. It can be tough some days.
Not really. I’m a telemarketer, I’m going to start looking for another job in October.
I’m content enough. My job is easy enough, the subject matter is interesting, the pay is decent and the benefits are OK. My schedule works with my lifestyle and my PTO allotments are generous. I like the people I work with, which is big for me – I spend more time with these people than I do my own family, so I feel like I should like being around them even just a little.
I’m happy with the salary I make and the profit sharing I’m getting.
Don’t find meaning at work, do that elsewhere.
Nope. And idk what to do, what field to go into. Nothing seems great.
No…are we meant to 🤔
I really like my job, it’s people that know nothing in the office environment that interfere and add nothing that has always bothered me. I could rant.
No.
Yes. Explaining every insignificant step of my job to my manager via 4 poorly thought out emails on her part, who can just as easily take a glance at my dashboard, or call me, no.
As long as I am in the job I love it.
When I leave the job, I love it more.
I recently started a new job in a new country as Install Coordinator.
I’d have to go with ‘content’. I miss my previous job (office job, kinda like account manager), I even kinda miss manual labour jobs I did when I first arrived (it was satisfying to work with my hands, but it was hard to keep up since I’m not used to it).
My new job allows me to zone out, listen to music and watch youtube while I’m doing the paperwork. It is ok for what it is, but I’d rather work way harder in a field I’m passionate about, or at least more interested in it.
HELL NO!
I’m keeping this position while I find something else!
I spent some time learning my personality, my strengths. Finding my “superpower” I used online inventories to explore professions, I use AI for myself and now my clients to match my personality, my strengths, my values, and my interests to jobs, roles, and opportunities.
Now I spend the bulk of my time and energy on something the world needs, that I love and am naturally suited for.
You don’t have to do it alone either:)
Love my industry, absolutely hate my current job. I’m currently in an upper-mid-level weed-out role that everyone is required to pass through in order to move up. I absolutely hate this job and am bored to death with it. I changed companies last year for a big raise (same role), but the new job does not have the same level of complexity as my old one, and I’m finding that not only am I even more bored now, I’m also miles ahead of their less experienced staff both at my level and the level above me. It’s a little worse because I had the perfect job 10 years ago working in international markets, but Russian sanctions tanked my job prospects and I had to start my career over in the US in my 30s. It’s rough being almost 40 and aspiring to get back to where I was 10 years ago.
I know that this role is temporary, but I’m struggling with shutting down from boredom at work and lacking motivation because I can see that the bar is lower than I believe it should be even for the people above me. My instincts are screaming “one of these things is not like the others” and I’m having to constantly remind myself that I’m paid very well, my performance has been recognized and I’m tracked for promotion, and eventually I’ll move up high enough where I’ll be running things and I can establish a higher standard. It’s not an objectively bad place to be in at all. But I’m so desperate to not be bored anymore that it’s incredibly hard to remember sometimes how much I love this industry.
I dunno if that’s helpful or not. Mid-career is just a hellish and disillusioning time, I think. It’s ok to not be passionate about your job, but I actually am on some foundational level and I don’t really regret it. I want a career I can be proud of, and that’s valid. But just know that, even if you are passionate about your career, it’s far from a rose garden. My father always told me that there isn’t really a career “path.” Mostly timing and opportunity will determine your specialization and which roles you get to do, and a lot of them will be temporary. In my experience so far, he’s right. But at the end of the day, you ultimately know if you want the life you’re building or not. If you want a change, you’re at a good age to take some chances (as long as you don’t go do something like underwater basket weaving during an economic dip).
I love it, I just wish my car was in better shape and I had more hours 🥲🥲🥲
I don’t think I’m ever going to love working. I just try to find things outside of work that makes me happy. I just found out at 35 that I like reading comic books.
I’m not passionate in that I wouldn’t do my job if I wasn’t getting paid. However, I do enjoy what I do and don’t dread waking up in the mornings. I don’t wish I was doing something else with my life. I like the work, I like my clients, and I generally like my coworkers. Sometimes I can be a bit stressful, but that’s just part of having a job.
I’m an architect with a very enjoyable area of expertise. I knew I wanted to be in the construction field since I was a child.
No. I can’t stand it, I wish I had picked something to earn me mad money. I’m going back to school in september so I can earn more money. Personally idgaf about working but i’d rather earn more while doing it lol