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[carmenjones]

I am just getting so frustrated with trying to find my "passion". I can't just continue at this dead end job until I find it, I might be 50 by then!!! I'm 25 now, and I gotta get my career going. I am sick of racking my brain trying to figure things out. I'm about to just get an MPH (program I left, I already work in this field, but no passion is there) cuz I don't know what else to do:cry:

Do you guys agree? Wouldn't it be quite naive of me to wait to find my passion at this point?? What if I never find it?? Opinions please.......

[exelon2]

I'm a teacher and I do love teaching, but I always feel so unsettled and confused. I feel like it stems mostly from the fact that I don't know what I am passionate about. I have taken every quiz in the world to try to figure out what I am passionate about, but nothing has helped. Fortunately I do love my job, but I also don't know if that is what I am truly passionate about. I think constantly trying new things and having new experiences, as well as stepping outside your comfort zone is helpful (at least, that was the advice I was given). Good luck! I'll let u know if I figure out the answer!

[Screen Name]

I'm going to be honest.

I hated, HATED, my old jobs, my old industry sucked so much on so many levels.

I made a decision of what I want to do, it was a "wild dream" that I always had and just never had the leverage to take the risk. It took a ton of work just to transition the career, now of course it's like jumping onto a rollercoaster as I need to prove myself all over again, and I'm not a kid anymore so it's a real bitch. I feel like I have been through boot camp too many times already and here I am again, whatever though I love what I do and in many ways I look back at my old career with a big middle finger up because now I am finally not faking to be happy all day, I don't need to anymore. Not saying I am happy all the time, just saying my old industry it was basically part of the job to be a fake bastard and I am so glad to be away from that element even though I make less money now.

So now what, here I am? Well, not quite, honestly I want to be a rapper. I'd love to just grab the microphone and rip on whomever I want and if I was making a ton of money that would be even better, and to be honest I can actually rap pretty good, it usually amazes my friends (probably because they don't expect it). I have actually beat people that are more or less amature rappers in freestyle battles, not only beat them but completely sank their battleship. I think they call it "fuck you money" when you have so much money you can basically say "FU" to anyone and it won't matter. If I won 10mil tomorrow I would call my old boss and call him an asshole, I know I would, but would be much more fun to release music about these losers, plus rappers always have really fast cars and lots of money with swimming pools. I could even own my own Vodka or Cognac brand!

So there might be some sarcasm here, but in a way I am actually being honest. I think the more you find yourself really the more you might find out about yourself. I always think, "what did you want to be when you were 7 years old?" Technically my title now matches what I wanted to be ever since I was a kid, I definitely can say my former career was more of me letting society push me toward a "traditional path". You live once, the answer is somewhere in there, it just might be too scary to act upon, yeah part of why I never really tried to do anything serious with music yet is fear of the reaction from people, I think I am getting closer to experimenting though but that's a crazy hurdle to get over right now with everything else going on. A lot of what helped me chase what I am doing now was a book called "The Sucess Principles" by Jack Canfield, the book gets really shitty halfway through but the first few chapters really helped me out a lot, try it out!

edit; adding to that dream, I have always wanted to do stand up comedy. Since as young as I can remember all the way until now people constantly tell me I need to do stand up. Funny thing is I agree and I think i'd have some great material, problem is the audience that would find humor in it might be too narrow. Maybe sometime soon though I will take a crack at it. Again, I'd love to do it but it's really a big step to put yourself up for opinion on something like that.

[Samwell]

I’m of the opinion that for many people having a job you are truly passionate about is not necessarily that important. Having something in your life that you are passionate about is a great thing (and probably a necessary thing for a satisfying life) but there's a lot to be said for a decent paying job that is moderately engaging, doesn't follow you home, doesn't conflict with your values or personality and allows you to work with capable and amiable people. That’s hard enough to find.

Motivation is a very personal thing, though. To each their own…

[Screen Name]

I’m of the opinion that for many people having a job you are truly passionate about is not necessarily that important. Having something in your life that you are passionate about is a great thing (and probably a necessary thing for a satisfying life) but there's a lot to be said for a decent paying job that is moderately engaging, doesn't follow you home, doesn't conflict with your values or personality and allows you to work with capable and amiable people. That’s hard enough to find.

Motivation is a very personal thing, though. To each their own…


I think part of my problem is that no matter what I do I will take the job to my pillow at night, it's a bad circuit in my brain. Even when I worked in the finance industry I would go to bed thinking about what I had to do in the morning, and it was all tasks that more or less involved shuffling around other people's money, going to bed thinking about other people's money really sucks. I mean I know it was my tasks but the end result of my work was not focused on me, maybe I am sellfish or something but it bothered me. Now at least an element of my job feeds only me, the end result of a portion of what I do is related to my personal goals so taking that home everynight is natural.

I am sure if I was able to leave my job at the office I would make more money but I just hate the idea of spending 40 hours a week for the best years of my life doing some boring crap, since I changed careers I no longer feel like I am wasting my life even though I make less money. We probably only get one life on Earth, best not spend that time in a cubicle waiting for a phone to ring (imo) or doing something you are not excited about just to spend more money on a fancy car or clothes from Neiman Marcus. I make less I spend less I net out the same, maybe more actually, I am learning it's not at all about how much you earn, it's all about how you spend, within a relative range of course.