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People say to turn your passion into a career?
#19098065 - 11/06/13 10:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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But what if you have no "passion", or if you do have one, then what if it cannot be turned into a career?
What is the conventional wisdom to do in this situation?
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worse thing i ever did was follow that uti advice.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: rackem]
#19098125 - 11/06/13 10:36 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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What do you mean by uti? And please elaborate on your situation? What do you think the correct path would have been for you?
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Celestial Traveler said: What do you mean by uti? And please elaborate on your situation? What do you think the correct path would have been for you?
UTI is some like mechanical trade school or some shit and "Turn your passion into your career" is their tagline in commercials.
Anyway, there are things that I'm passionate about. Sports was one of them, and after years not knowing what the fuck I wanted to do with my life or even in school I decided to study Sports and Leisure and get a job either in scholastic sports or the professional realm. Instead I just don't really care for sports as much as I used to and it's no where near any kind of passion.
It's awesome if you can find a career that fits with your passion and continue to be passionate about it. It sucks when you end up just doing stuff all the time not because you want to but because you have to. It's a great way to get burnt out on shit. I like talking about music with people, but I wouldn't like having to talk about music 5 days a week for 8 hours a day as a job.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: jewunit]
#19098416 - 11/06/13 11:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah that's one thing about "passions." School has a knack for taking "passions" that you have and turning them into something that you never want to do again. Studying a subject in a formal class can really dull the fuck out of it.
That's one reason why I think that even if I found something I was "passionate" about, that passion would not stick around for long once I began studying it in school.
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I thought you meant Urinary Tract Infection
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: NWlight]
#19098506 - 11/07/13 12:12 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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My passion is not being trapped in mindless repetitive tasks and not jumping through hoops for authoritative overachievers. All my employers love me at first, and I like pretty much everything I do for a while. I'm good at lots of things, have a good attitude and work ethic, but I get bored easily.
I'm trying to hold down my current job long enough to have a decent reference and leave on good terms and maybe just hop around my current industry until I find a place and people I can tolerate in the long term. That is basically a career I guess. I see so much money flowing down here at the bottom, I get tantalized but then part of me feels like I might as well just go live in the woods and scrounge what I can to eat because I don't want to give in on certain moral and spiritual principles.
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Celestial Traveler said: But what if you have no "passion", or if you do have one, then what if it cannot be turned into a career?
What is the conventional wisdom to do in this situation?
I only have 2 passions...
Posting on the shroomery
and
Using drugs
Can anyone tell me how to turn these in to successful careers?
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19098547 - 11/07/13 12:22 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mjmihalov said: Can anyone tell me how to turn these in to successful careers?
Doesn't look like you're ever going to have much of one.
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sVs said:
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mjmihalov said: Can anyone tell me how to turn these in to successful careers?
Doesn't look like you're ever going to have much of one.
That's what I was thinking!
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: TrentBoyett] 1
#19098662 - 11/07/13 01:21 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you turn your 'passion' into your career, you will end up hating what you once loved.
I like to build my own computers or work on my own car, but fuck doing that for other people who dont take care of their stuff. They walk in with a fucked up piece of shit and you have to fix it.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: MilkdudTitties] 1
#19098673 - 11/07/13 01:23 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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MilkdudTitties said: If you turn your 'passion' into your career, you will end up hating what you once loved.
I like to build my own computers or work on my own car, but fuck doing that for other people who dont take care of their stuff. They walk in with a fucked up piece of shit and you have to fix it.
But the converse to that would be making your career something you hate or are apathetic about. And is that honestly any less miserable?
By my own experience and the advice on here, professional life seems destined to be miserable no matter what.
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Celestial Traveler said: But what if you have no "passion", or if you do have one, then what if it cannot be turned into a career?
What is the conventional wisdom to do in this situation?
Then get a job, you damned hippie.
Seriously though, I wouldn't turn my passion into a career, that sounds terrible. Turn the thing you're most comfortable doing mindlessly into a career. Keep your passion close to your heart and out of sight. People are fucked up.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19098765 - 11/07/13 02:01 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mjmihalov said:
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Celestial Traveler said: But what if you have no "passion", or if you do have one, then what if it cannot be turned into a career?
What is the conventional wisdom to do in this situation?
I only have 2 passions...
Posting on the shroomery
and
Using drugs
Can anyone tell me how to turn these in to successful careers?

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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: thoughts]
#19098775 - 11/07/13 02:06 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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how?
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19098781 - 11/07/13 02:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I can actually sell you a Shroomery Associate starter kit for only $300 and then you will be well on your way to turning your mental illness into cold hard cash. That is the friend price.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19098782 - 11/07/13 02:10 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Office jerb. Lots of down time to do whatever.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: thoughts] 1
#19098806 - 11/07/13 02:21 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you have no passion than you need to eat more LSD.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: thoughts]
#19098811 - 11/07/13 02:23 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah most guys at my work totally just dick around on the internet all day, I get high as fuck while doing most of the work. They should say "Make working your passion" instead, but that sounds a little Auchwitzy...
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: moonrockmushy] 1
#19098869 - 11/07/13 02:51 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: Yeah most guys at my work totally just dick around on the internet all day, I get high as fuck while doing most of the work. They should say "Make working your passion" instead, but that sounds a little Auchwitzy...
Auschwitzy or not, it's a good strategy for getting ahead. Just don't go too far with it or you'll turn into a dork.
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At least the people at Auschwitz worked hard, unlike half of the people I know in my age bracket. Maybe that's the appropriate motivation for people, after all.
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Celestial Traveler said: But what if you have no "passion", or if you do have one, then what if it cannot be turned into a career?
What is the conventional wisdom to do in this situation?
If you meditate you can find passion in any job :-) and any life situation
but you would also know what you really want to do, if you go deep enough into yourself everything will be clear afterwards
my studies are not exactly something that will assure me a job :-) , but I do them anyway for many years now, because I love doing it doesn't matter if I have to work at a supermarket/be a taxi driver afterwards to me...
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: lessismore]
#19098896 - 11/07/13 03:12 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I suppose if you have no aspirations whatsoever, working at a supermarket for many years will be quite adequate. As for the rest of us, at some point we had to stop bagging groceries to progress. But keep meditating, as I'm sure that will provide you with all of the worldly satisfaction you could ever need.
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If you have a passion...weed, mushies, school, fitness.... create your future from it. Cultivate legally and sell, study like no tomorrow. Put effort 
Take a journey with your life. Money is just a social construct. Not worth it. Seek happiness by trying new things out til you find your prime
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can heroin become a career?
or how about a career criminal?
i guess i can just become a writer/jazz musician?
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: stzacrack]
#19101889 - 11/07/13 05:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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What career do you have that lets you get high while at work?
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if you can't make doing what you like into a day job, find a day job that is satisfying enough that will allow you to pursue what you like doing on the side. if you are a complete blank slate of a person with no interests, hobbies or passions then skip the former and shoot for the latter.
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Celestial Traveler said: What career do you have that lets you get high while at work?
Rather not say. My job is nothing special for sure, long hours for little pay, but the industry intrigues me, and there is money to be made without necessarily needing a college degree. The problem is I'd have to get into management which pains my soul, but maybe I can find a weird niche too. I don't get high all the time it all, and I certainly have to hide my use, but nobody really monitors what I do with my time which is key. I don't cause drama and I get results so nobody fucks with me. That is important to me like I said, not being under someone's thumb all the time.
I have a passion for manual labor and getting shit done, which is rare these days. I certainly don't drink or do anything that is unsuitable for the workplace like psychedelics. Plus I'm trying to get clean for a bit, keep it to weed and a few beers after work. I've been pushing things a bit far, but I still get nothing but praise. The totally clean people are just as lazy and attitude prone. I say if anything they bring more drama.
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Celestial Traveler said: What career do you have that lets you get high while at work?
i'm a laborer. but i don't enjoy using heroin before/during work.
i prefer 1-2mg suboxone, though it'd be nice to be clean off all of it.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: Acaterpillar]
#19103658 - 11/08/13 12:36 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Acaterpillar said: If you have no passion than you need to eat more LSD.
Then you will find you have a love for large goggles, hot air balloons and other leather apparel.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: The Vapor]
#19108930 - 11/09/13 02:59 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Acaterpillar said: If you have no passion than you need to eat more LSD.
Then you will find you have a love for large goggles, hot air balloons and other leather apparel.
That can't be true!....right?

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Here's the thing - how are you supposed to choose your career BEFORE you enter the career to get a good idea of what it's like?
It's kind of hard to tell what a career will be like until you enter it...so it seems like you just kind of have to roll the dice and hope you like what you chose.
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i dont think a passion could be turned into a job. Once your passion is turned into a job then its your job to do your passion and everybody hates work lol
but really. could you see sticking with one job/career for the rest of your life? That means for the rest of forever (while your alive). Screw that, I'd rather take the fun ride and jump into random jobs than be stuck with the same boring routine everyday. I get bored easily and I know for a fact that if i turned my passions into a job, I'd want out just as quickly as the next thing because I've done it before.. and I already quit lol but I still do it from time to time because I still am passionate about it. It comes back, you just gotta take breaks from certain mindless tasks
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: tripp23]
#19163005 - 11/20/13 12:10 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I understand what you're saying.
I just hate the notion of basically hating 5 days out of the week, and enduring them hanging by a thread of hope looking forward to the 2 days at the end of the week for the rest of my life. I used to do that in high school and that sucked. I still kind of do that now.
I see other people that are turning their "passion" into a career and it seems to be making them happy - so that's why I think it's possible to make your passion your work and still enjoy it.
In addition, all bullshit aside there are some careers out there that would be pretty freaking badass. Rock star, for instance (of course we can't all be that but you get the point), Photographer for National Geographic magazine, etc etc. There are definitely some passion-based careers out there that would probably rock.
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Re: People say to turn your passion into a career? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#19163031 - 11/20/13 12:20 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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My advice would to be to find a happy medium. Of course it would be best to find a career that you're passionate about.
However, very often people find that what they want to do as a career isn't really realistic when it comes to making a living. This is where my first sentence comes in. If you can't find something that you're really passionate about that will help you to survive then your best bet is to find something in between.
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