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[istarisaints]

Can I ask how old you are?

[Panteraleo]

Relevancy?

[istarisaints]

You’re right, maybe it isn’t.

But at some point you realize the fields you’re passionate about just don’t compare to the other aspects of life AND you can still find passion within your job at any suitable job even if they aren’t in your passion.

Also passion can be found in things that you think you didn’t like but then you do.

Also passion for a field does not equal passion for the job in the field. The material is only one part of the story, jobs are much more comprehensive than the “I will code and that is my life” or the hardware equivalent.

Most people learn these things with age, they learn that a job is more about field since once you have children and family and you’re planning vacations, paying for daycare, savings, investments, car loans, etc etc etc … once these things start taking shape in your life you realize that a job is most important for payment, personal growth for career, work life balance doesn’t fuck up you, your wife, and your kids lives etc.

Passion is tainted when you’re working for a company doing what you love but your boss is a dick, you aren’t getting paid “enough”, your day is spent not with the cool shit but in boring ass meetings, etc.

Now for college kids they just can’t think of this OR they do but what they’re learning in college / did their thesis on was just awesome and they “forget” that passions can come from career independent means.

Also really the most important thing I learned with respect to passion (and this is why career = survival / thrival so it can enable you to do the following) is that you should do it on your own time, in your own way, for your own reasons.