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What if you put that aside for a while and think about it in terms of going with your strengths instead? Same thing, different angle. If there's any choice about what job you might take, take the one where you can add the most value, relatively. That's a job where you'll be appreciated more and hopefully compensated well for. The thing is, there's a correlation there to passion, but passion is not required.
If you think the way of life of your elders made the world a better place, go ahead, think and do like them, maybe it will make you happy, like them.
I may be disrespectful, but for me it looks like my elders left me with a suffocating planet populated by too many people taking too many drugs.
And I don't want to be a part of this, I'm not smart enough to change the future, I probably won't do much good to mankind, so I'm going to enjoy myself and leave the tiniest footprint when I'm leaving. Nobody owes us fun, we owe it to ourselves.
Trade financial stability now for passions later is my take on this post, this resonates with me strongly as I'm at this very crossroads (and im a millennial) and leaning towards financial stability to provide foundation on which to find my passion. I always found it hard to "explore" what I wanted to do because time was always limited by how much money I had and I never had a lot.
People also like me a lot better now that I don't hate a third of my life, am not trying to compensate for that with money, and have a certain zest from getting to genuinely work on things I'm passionate about.
YMMV, as some passions are more expensive than mine to get in to, but my point was that there's a spectrum of reasonable reactions to work-life balance, and the choice needs to be individual.
> Are you a burden to those around you?
> No? Good on you! By all means pursue your passion. Feed your Chinese Crested Hairless.
> Yes? Screw your passion. Get a job. Support yourself. Pay your own way so that you can stop draining the people and resources around you.
Relevant: Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs (TV show) fame: Don't follow your passion https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CVEuPmVAb8o
This is an excellent talk, but I wonder if Rowe realizes that the days of blue collar work are numbered? Tradesmen will be around for quite a while yet, sure, but everything will eventually be turned over to the machines. That's why we need to seriously invest in a proper changeover system to handle the droves of unemployed.
I think most people commenting here missed the key lines: > Are you a burden to those around you? > No? Good on you! By all means pursue your passion. Feed your Chinese Crested Hairless. > Yes? Screw your passion. Get a job. Support yourself. Pay your own way so that you can stop draining the people and resources around you.
"Screw Your Passion. Get a Job." what a title, and the same attitude throughout the article. While I'm not one of the people your post targets, I really dislike this kind of rhetoric. Where you have to use "strong" words to cause rumble for attention. Back to the core topic. I would argue about balance though. A lot of people are lucky to be in a position where they have that extra room. It's good to use part of that…
"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt." Horace, 20BC
But maybe more jaded, I also see a business owner looking to maximize profit and minimize expenses by gas-lighting a bunch of kids into shoveling shit all day for peanuts.
You really can't do your best work unless you're at least somewhat passionate about it. I don't get why people can think you're more productive at a job you dislike or hate and have to force yourself to get anything done, rather than doing something valuable that you'll get things done without huge amounts of willpower. Failing to find something that your're passionate about and valuable is cheating both yourself and…
I think we need to learn to do stuff even if we "don't feel it" yet, that state comes later as a reward for doing.
Long ago I read an article that made me think about this: http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-...
Trade financial stability now for passions later is my take on this post, this resonates with me strongly as I'm at this very crossroads (and im a millennial) and leaning towards financial stability to provide foundation on which to find my passion. I always found it hard to "explore" what I wanted to do because time was always limited by how much money I had and I never had a lot.