Quote: (11-12-2016 12:15 PM)RedPillUK Wrote:
^ I'm seeing a lot of this here about passion and doing what you love.
It's bullshit, when you make money, that can then become your passion and doing what you love.
The problem with this is twofold:
-To get to making good money, you'll need to put in years of hard work
-At every step you'll be competing with people who DO enjoy it more than you
Passion doesn't necessarily mean love every task, but it does mean have some innate drive, fulfilment, interest or meaning in your work.
Rare is the man who can push through years of miserable grind successfully. For every one of him, there's 100 who chase the money and burn out or fail -- or they settle into an "Money's OK, live for the weekend, hate my job" kind of limbo.
It's also true that a naive focus on passion leads to failure too. The sweet spot = passion + lucrative/growing industry + useful, marketable skills. That, and pushing through inevitable periods of grunt work that comes with anything worthwhile (but not settling for endless monotony with no hope of fulfilment).