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> Find something you love doing and do it for the 'work' itself People keep repeating that advice, but finding something you love doing just for the work might

by clarry 8y ago

> Find something you love doing and do it for the 'work' itself People keep repeating that advice, but finding something you love doing just for the work might be an endless chase, not unlike the chase after success and money. Some of us actually feel that it is easier to chase money than it is to find work you really love.

setquk 8y ago
Even worse. Doing something you love for work means you end up hating it for a lot of people. Then you spend your entire life drifting and finding nothing else you love. I do something I hate enough to walk in with a sword and fight it every day.
- kdbg 8y ago
  I'm a bit mixed in this. I've actually had both experiences. I've turned two hobbies I loved intoy full time job. The first one (magician) went as you stated, I ended up hating it, or atleast hating it as a job. It paid pretty well, but performing because I had to instead of wanted to made a big difference. On the other hand though, I also took my hobby of hacking stuff into the my current career doing application security consulting and vuln research. Also pays quite well and I enjoy my job quite a bit, possibly even more than doing it as a hobby. So with a sample size of me, that's 50/50 odds on finding something you love working out as a job you love. Not great, but imo not reason to atleast take a shot if your passion also happens to pay well, and is feasible.
onlyrealcuzzo 8y ago
Yes. I am so tired of people parroting "Do what you love." Real life isn't a Disney movie. Doing what I love, I would be lucky to make $10k a year. You know what else I love beside that? Making enough money to eat. You know what I REALLY like, knowing that I'm making enough money now to GUARANTEE my dreams will come true. Not scaping pennies together as a starting artist, crossing my fingers, and hoping that one day I get my break. No, I did that for 10 years. You know what I noticed? No one ever gets a break.
- linuxftw 8y ago
  > Real life isn't a Disney movie. Doing what I love, I would be lucky to make $10k a year. Unfortunately, an increasing number of people don't feel this way. Their solution is to increase their salary (and benefits) at the ballot box.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Or fortunately, depending on your sociopolitical views, assuming you're talking about universal basic income?
    - testvox 8y ago
      I think he meant more like minimum wage increases and health insurance mandates.
      - linuxftw 8y ago
        I'm talking about anything and everything that the many choose to take from the few.
        FiddlyPack 8y ago
        Dollars are a social construction of disassociated trust of value, wherein your ability to establish rent grants you power over rentees. Votes are another way of expressing power, wherein your ability to establish a majority opinion grants you power over the minority. Seems like the equilibrium would be at the point where power expressed by the renting class is only just not quite able to override the power expressed by the majority opinion.
  - adrianN 8y ago
    Where do I put my cross to make more money as a tea farmer?

by clarry 8y ago

setquk 8y ago

Even worse. Doing something you love for work means you end up hating it for a lot of people. Then you spend your entire life drifting and finding nothing else you love. I do something I hate enough to walk in with a sword and fight it every day.

kdbg 8y ago
I'm a bit mixed in this. I've actually had both experiences. I've turned two hobbies I loved intoy full time job. The first one (magician) went as you stated, I ended up hating it, or atleast hating it as a job. It paid pretty well, but performing because I had to instead of wanted to made a big difference. On the other hand though, I also took my hobby of hacking stuff into the my current career doing application security consulting and vuln research. Also pays quite well and I enjoy my job quite a bit, possibly even more than doing it as a hobby. So with a sample size of me, that's 50/50 odds on finding something you love working out as a job you love. Not great, but imo not reason to atleast take a shot if your passion also happens to pay well, and is feasible.

onlyrealcuzzo 8y ago

Yes. I am so tired of people parroting "Do what you love." Real life isn't a Disney movie. Doing what I love, I would be lucky to make $10k a year. You know what else I love beside that? Making enough money to eat. You know what I REALLY like, knowing that I'm making enough money now to GUARANTEE my dreams will come true. Not scaping pennies together as a starting artist, crossing my fingers, and hoping that one day I get my break. No, I did that for 10 years. You know what I noticed? No one ever gets a break.

linuxftw 8y ago
> Real life isn't a Disney movie. Doing what I love, I would be lucky to make $10k a year. Unfortunately, an increasing number of people don't feel this way. Their solution is to increase their salary (and benefits) at the ballot box.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Or fortunately, depending on your sociopolitical views, assuming you're talking about universal basic income?
  - testvox 8y ago
    I think he meant more like minimum wage increases and health insurance mandates.
    - linuxftw 8y ago
      I'm talking about anything and everything that the many choose to take from the few.
      - FiddlyPack 8y ago
        Dollars are a social construction of disassociated trust of value, wherein your ability to establish rent grants you power over rentees. Votes are another way of expressing power, wherein your ability to establish a majority opinion grants you power over the minority. Seems like the equilibrium would be at the point where power expressed by the renting class is only just not quite able to override the power expressed by the majority opinion.
- adrianN 8y ago
  Where do I put my cross to make more money as a tea farmer?