• cammoblammo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You know the old saying, ‘Get a job doing the thing you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life!’?

    That’s really bad advice. Get a job doing something you like, but not your passion. If you burn out on your passion, you’ve lost the thing that brings you joy.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, this is 100 percent true. It doesn’t even have to be what you do for a living. I used to really enjoy cooking, but once I got a family and had to cook meals every day, whether I felt like it or not, it became a chore. As chores go, it was still better than most, but it stopped being something I looked forward to.