I'm 27 and Not Passionate About My Job

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[theowl]

Let's be honest, he's describing 90% of us.

[officialthomasjames]

I don’t care about “finding my passion, ” I just need my work to be meaningful. It’s difficult finding a meaningful job that pays well.

[erichardnett]

I know exactly what he's talking about. When you reveal how good you are at your job you always get extra work but no extra kibble.

[lmelior]

This guy has discovered the reality of working for someone else. The likelihood of you being passionate about what someone else wants you to do is very low. Plenty of people enjoy their work, and enjoy the people they work with, and enjoy the steady paycheck, but very few are passionate about it to the point that they think of little else.

[Saveg]

dude: "i work as a statistician and the people here are not passionate about what they do"
dave: "shocking"

[royboy]

Don’t focus on your 9-5. Make the 9-5 as a means (income) to do what you are passionate about.

[ease]

It’s sounds like his hard work is only getting him more labor, instead of recognition and advancement.

[allstrongfitness]

Life is about choosing what you want to suffer for, not about what will you choose to make you not suffer

[roseannemelissant]

I think the pandemic has taught people the importance of multiple streams of income unfortunately having a job doesn’t mean security.

[richardwalter]

Job security does not exist anymore. If you don’t perform like they want you to perform, you could be let go.

[gojereme]

I understand this guy 💯 That’s why my wife and I quit our 9-5s, sold out stuff, and moved into a small A-frame house across country to slow down and live life on our own terms

[seeingahead]

The caller is getting burned out—nothing else.

[NashvilleN]

Passion is such a nebulous word. It’s been so overused. Even my employer asks us on surveys how “passionate” we are about our work. When I lived to work and looked to my job/career for fulfillment I was MISERABLE. Now I work to live. Am I passionate about what I do? No. Do I like it well enough to do it for what they pay me? Sure! It allows me to enjoy other things in life like my house, my dog, paddle boarding, whatever. Part of it is certainly because I’m finally getting paid well, which I wasn’t at previous jobs. But some of it is because I found things in life that I enjoy and am passionate about that my job allows me to pay for. Sometimes it’s not a new job people need, but a new perspective.

[jusplay]

Find and do what your passionate about. Don’t wait till you have a family then you will be stuck paying bills. Now is the time to take these risks before it gets complicated.

[daveshanks]

I found this at the right time, I’m 27.

[dopelunchbox]

I'm 26 and I wish I would have heard this years ago...

[danielle]

I know exactly what this guy is talking about. It’s not necessarily about passion. It’s a desire to grow. I was working a steady job for 10 years but the growth rate to get up in the workplace was minimal. You just get tired and burned out and ready for a change.

[rkbelmont]

I am a software engineer. It doesn't passion me one bit. I work on this because it is well payed. I enjoy it and I'm good at it. But I dedicate as less time as possible, since my passion goes to art (as a hobby, I don't want to starve).

[warrenf]

If there is one plus, it is the fact that you at least get paid well for the type of work that you do. It's much worse when you find yourself in a dead-end job without getting compensated fairly for the work you put in. That is the ultimate stagnation.

[gardenofe]

I USED to love ❤️ my job but since the changes in upper management they have changed so many things that I absolutely HATE it now and all my old coworkers who I’ve been working with the past 20+ years have either retired, quit or let go !! Things have changed so much at my work that I absolutely HATE it !! I can’t do anything until this dam pandemic 😷 is over !!