Don't waste life

#1

Post by munchor » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

Re: Don't waste life

#2

Post by TenDnal » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 2:59 PM UTC

Yeah, do what you love and love what you do. And when you really do it, work stops being just job, it's life as well. And there's no separation between you at home and you at work. Simple yet, very important idea. You can't get tired of work if you really love it.

Re: Don't waste life

#3

Post by jvehent » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

I saved 15 minutes by not reading this blog post :)

Re: Don't waste life

#4

Post by grouphugs » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

I like the idea of the article. However, I don't think you understand free will or the idea of choice. Not everyone gets to have this perfect little say in what they want to do.

Re: Don't waste life

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Post by Gepser » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

What if I have many passions and I can't decide?

I like programming but I really love breakdance, videogames, traveling, cooking and others.

Right now I'm working as a software engineering because in my country is a little hard to live working on the others things I like.

That does it mean I'm wasting my life?

Re: Don't waste life

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Post by 1337biz » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:12 PM UTC

jvehent wrote: post #3

I saved 15 minutes by not reading this blog post :)

Me too. Somehow today HN reads really a bit self-help'y...

Re: Don't waste life

#7

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

jvehent wrote: post #3

I saved 15 minutes by not reading this blog post :)

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Re: Don't waste life

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Post by steele » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

Before you put on your snark hats, note that the author explicitly claims that he is working on "advice for people in their 20s". Actually, I bet the audience this would resonate with is even narrower.

Hoping to read articles about how to cope with finding career fulfillment in "sanitation engineering" or "making-ends-meet".

Re: Don't waste life

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Post by bsirkia » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

All true ideas, none particularly helpful. No one reads this and thinks: "Wait, I can be happier if I work on something I'm passionate about and get paid for it?! I had no idea!"

The problem is that its really hard to 1) identify what passions you have, 2) filter those by which you want to pursue for the rest of your life and 3) figure out a way to make money on that passion. Most people I know my age (mid 20's) are happy to "waste life" and make money for a couple years while they answer those decisions.

Re: Don't waste life

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Post by roeme » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

TenDnal wrote: post #2

Yeah, do what you love and love what you do. And when you really do it, work stops being just job, it's life as well. And there's no separation between you at home and you at work. Simple yet, very important idea. You can't get tired of work if you really love it.

Unfortunately, virtually all work includes some stuff to do which you don't happen to love that much. So there will be always a factor which will tire you of your work to a certain degree, and always a separation between work and home. This is only natural.

If you want to avoid the not-so-fun parts of your work, that means you've got to find somebody else to do it for you.

It's unlikely they will do it for free; so you either have to find the dime or the time.