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The Life-Changing Magic of High-Speed Career Sampling - Nat Eliason
It's hard to find work you love; it must be, if so few do. So don't underestimate this task. And don't feel bad if you haven't succeeded yet. In fact, if you admit to yourself that you're discontented, you're a step ahead of most people, who are still in denial. If you're surrounded by colleagues who claim to enjoy work that you find contemptible, ... See more
How to Do What You Love
What this means in practice is that at some point far before you are or feel ready, you need to quit your job. But this isn’t really about your job. It’s about your relationship to resources and value.
Palladium • Quit Your Job
The trick of maximizing the parts of your job that you like can get you from architecture to product design, but not, probably, to music. If you make money doing one thing and then work on another, you have more freedom of choice.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
“I’ll just give up two years of my life, then I’ll do what I really want” people tell themselves. This is incredibly risky because if you stay too long, you get lulled into accepting that the low-grade dissatisfaction associated with doing a job is not worth questioning; it's just proof that you’re human.