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Life's also too short to spend it chasing a career that doesn't exist or that you can't make a living at.
by jschwartzi 11y ago
Life's also too short to spend it chasing a career that doesn't exist or that you can't make a living at.
- Retra 11y agoIf you can't make a living doing what you want, it's probably worth spending your life creating what you want so you can do it for a living.
- jschwartzi 11y agoHow well does living in a cabin in the woods, chopping wood, and hunting and gardening for food pay? Edit: To clarify, a lot of people in the professional world just take it as a given that everyone wants to be in the professional world for the rest of their lives. I'm trying to make the point that a lot of us are only here because it's the best option out of a number of crappy alternatives. To even ask "What would your ideal position be?" implies that the interviewee wants to work professional jobs for the rest of their lives. On the contrary, most of us don't. If we had an out that allowed us to leave the office for the last time we would take it in a heartbeat. That doesn't make us bad workers, but it's worth considering the fundamental assumptions behind your interview questions before you ask them. A lot of people have professional lives that are an endless series of compromises where they have to choose the least-worst option repeatedly. You rapidly lose your enthusiasm for a life like that.
- JackFr 11y agoNo, it's not. The answer is to stop defining yourself by how you earn a living. Pretty good basketball players, pretty good singers, pretty good poets (hell, even the best poets) can't make a living what they love. That doesn't mean they should stop writing poetry or singing or playing basketball. It means they should find a job they like, and continue to do what they love on their own time.
- Retra 11y agoAll of their time is their own time.