Some people don't have a burning work passion and just want to do a job to support their families.
If your work doesn't seem *viscerally* important + interesting/fun *to you,* it'll really mess with your life and general happiness. Repeating all the objective merits and perks, telling yourself you have no choice, and picking up a meditation practice are not going to save youhttps://twitter.com/singareddynm/status/1222292269069488133 …
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I hear people say this, and I don't really care to argue with it. I do know that not a lot of those people follow me, and the people who *do* follow me who claim to feel this way often later reveal that they're desperately unhappy, and get limited satisfaction from self martyrdom
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I would say that achievement and control are in many ways more critical than importance. The job I felt most empowered and important at was literally mowing greens on a golf course. Because I could look at mowed greens and raked traps and had independence about how it got done
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There's no reason that something like that can't be important *to you.* I am myself a self-selected duck slave
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Probably need to find a way to disconnect people from the myth of happiness early so they don't think things can work out that way.
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Strong agree. Also, Meditation will make crappy work WORSE. Emotions don't go away after enough meditation, they get revealed so then you need to deal with them head on!
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Kids also need to learn early on that even the most truly awesome job is going to consist of long periods of not-so-awesome punctuated by much shorter periods of AWESOME! All the awesome jobs I've had -- parent, lawyer, paramedic, teacher, you name it -- have been 75%+ "emails".
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That being said, though, you're absolutely correct: Being a lawyer so rarely seemed *viscerally* important + interesting/fun *to me* that eventually I switched to healthcare & education, & have never regretted it, even when it involved starting over at $5/hr to make it happen.
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This seems fairly detached from reality. Most people don't have a passion at all, let alone one which could pay the bills.
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