Passion is, I think, where you want something. Perhaps you're looking for the feeling of achievement or validation or whatever - and you're prepared to make an

Passion is, I think, where you want something. Perhaps you're looking for the feeling of achievement or validation or whatever - and you're prepared to make an extra effort to get it. We have to work to get money live but since we spend a lot of time doing work we might be trying to look for more than money from it. But work isn't a reliable source of nice things and if you build your entire ego upon it you'll end up having times of terrible withdrawal when things don't go well. You cannot "get work satisfaction" always and in some companies you never get it. So, IMO, having something else (anything) which you can draw positive feelings of achievement or validation from is sensible. I think I get the most long term satisfaction from family milestones: I stuck it long enough in the bad job to get the permanent residence permits - nothing about the job matters anymore as it achieved the result I needed. Now I need to pay off the house .... and so on.