This is a necessary *corrective* to bad advice other people give, perhaps, but if it were actually generally true then there'd be no such thing as the stereotype of a "midlife crisis" Nobody getting paid six figures would suddenly crack up and burn out and wreck their lifehttps://twitter.com/mouneer/status/1342559926611271681 …
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And you see the reverse, people who try to stick it out as actors or writers or comedians or whatever, get pissed off and sick of it, and deliberately "sell out" and find they're much happier with the big steady paycheck
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Maybe the rule is just that the grass is always greener on the other side and therefore people need to be in motion, at least periodically, to go taste other flavors of grass
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But then again there's people who jump around between life paths every six months and seem to be miserable about it -- and people who seem to be happy doing that And people who only do one thing their whole lives and are happy (or are miserable)
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I dunno Sometimes I don't even think happiness, in and of itself, is something easily changeable by circumstances, once basic needs are met Some people are just unhappy people
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All of this is real. Some folks fall more into one group, some another. A version I like: Find a profession you’re good at & can tolerate doing for years w/o hating it.
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