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I loved poker until I played it professionally. I love programming, but not when I'm at work. I'm growing a garden, but I know I'd hate being a farmer. The onl
by mod 11y ago
I loved poker until I played it professionally. I love programming, but not when I'm at work. I'm growing a garden, but I know I'd hate being a farmer.
The only job I truly loved was working with children, but there was no (financial) future in it. I didn't have to work, but I wouldn't have been able to live either.
- nkassis 11y agoThere was an article I read somewhere (maybe here?) a couple weeks ago that mentioned that employee happiness and autonomy are correlated. That could be the issue with turning passions into a job. You lose the autonomy you had before.
- qznc 11y agoThe motivation triple is "autonomy, mastery, and purpose" http://www.danpink.com/drive/ http://www.danpink.com/drive/
- pmarreck 11y ago> I loved poker until I played it professionally. Probably a combination of intrinsic to extrinsic motivation (http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/10/how-rewards-can-backfire-and-reduce-motivation.php http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/10/how-rewards-can-backfire-an... and https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-trust/201403/new-kind-reward-increases-intrinsic-motivation https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-trust/201403/new-...) and a sudden lack of control. > The only job I truly loved was working with children There's gotta be SOMEthing you can do there, maybe volunteer, tutor, whatever? I mentor'd an at-risk teen for a while, he ended up going off to college. If that is a passion you have, you should sneak it in there somehow. Maybe teach kids why Texas Hold'em No Limit is the greatest partial-information game ever invented by man? ;)