Created: 2021-11-29 10:38
Reference: Why I Prefer Part-Time Work to Full-Time Passion
If I decided to ‘follow my passion’, I would quit a job that I like and enjoy, give up financial security and spend all my time trying to write for a living. Heaven? Quite on the contrary. This is why ‘follow your passion’ is not only bad advice, but also highly dangerous. It’s plain unrealistic to expect your passion to sustain you right away or even in a few months.
Motivation runs out, even for the things one is passionate about.
Deciding what your career will be early on is not only unnecessary, but can also be detrimental. Optionality, on the other hand, goes a long way towards withstanding the natural volatility of life and human society, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes in Antifragile.
Should you plan your career ahead?
What about having No goals means failure?
‘Follow your passion’ is backwards. Passion should follow after one develops the skills and becomes better and what they do.
Much like one shouldn’t find problems for the already implemented solutions but should instead find solutions for the already existing problems.
Following your passion can happen in unexpected ways, when enaging in activities that seem totally unrelated. And it doesn’t require leaving your job. In other words, following one’s passion should be more of a side effect than the end goal.
Chose a main job (an occupation?) that allows to chase your passion on the side. Chase opportunities that will enable your passion in unexpected, and seemingly unrelated ways. Enjoy the journey!