#and also i knew the pay was bad

[askshivanulegacy]

A lot of people's passions tend to be some kind of creative work which, at present reality, is often shit at pay and realistic hours. You burn out, you're not afforded time to recharge, you don't make enough to be stable.

The dream is still to get paid for what you love, but it's a dream for a reason.

Thankfully, as people we all have a variety of interests, and it's still realistic to find a job you don't mind that you're good at, even if it's not your passion. You don't HAVE to be passionate about work. Even when I LOVE what I'm doing and who I'm doing it with, the thing I look forward to the most is getting home and doing things I don't HAVE to do, for ME.

At the end of the day, you have to be able to do a job that pays the bills. It doesn't have to be a passionate choice, just a practical one. If it gets you good pay, a comfortable living situation, and decent people to work with, the job is done. And you still get to enjoy your passions on your own terms.

When you're a kid/teenager everyone expects you to base your career around your passions and interests and that works for a lot of people but it's not the full story. I wish they would also teach students to consider the lifestyle that career would require.

Like... if I had to choose a passion and work a career around it, I would probably work at a zoo or aquarium. But those jobs require a lot of schooling with STEM classes (which I hate) and a lot of early mornings (which make me feel ill) and an obligation to work in person with no flexibility to move (which makes me depressed). So even if I'd enjoy caring for animals all day, it's not a good career path for me.

My current job is travel writing, which is not my passion. I like it, but it's not my passion. But I work a flexible schedule, I can live anywhere, I get a travel stipend, and my team is really chill. So it works for me.

Rather than solely focusing on "What topics do you like?" I think we should ask students "Of the careers that suit your preferred lifestyle, which are the most interesting?"

[beeduoo]

wonderful

[fear-no-mort]

thinkign about how alone and unloved morty was for all his life and rick was the first time anyobdy ever put such an amount of intense attention and dependency onto him . and rick had a whole new family and losing them made him stop seeing the value in other people as a whole and morty was the one and first thing that woke him up

[boydykepdf]

the highs & lows of the admission email i just got from a uni being like “hey ur one of only eight students we admitted to the graduate school!! we really want you!! there were 200 applicants and we chose YOU!!!! so we are offering you $24k/year to live in a city where you will be paying bare minimum $1k/month for rent. & that’s if you want to live in a shoebox 😘”

[leori-the-unlearned]

reminder that it is quite possible the Titan’s first impression of Luz is her introducing herself as a crab maiden and later getting her aunt to punch Philip in the nose

[ambrosykim]

i never realised how poor i was until i got a job lol

[petrichoraline]

circe letting the crew go with the hopes of passing the goodness along and then we get to different beast and thunder bringer... she'd be so sad

[always-andromeda]

I always wondered how James Somerton could crank out such many well written video essays in such a short amount of time…

Because he’s stealing the words of literally dozens of writers who are better than him. 😀

[littencloud9]

till all-in save me…

[damndude69]

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[sonknuxadow]

i complain a lot about sonic resellers but monster high resellers are just as bad . probably a lot worse actually

[thelastspeecher]

apparently one of my cousins was just accepted into a master's writing program at an Ivy League school

and that's why I almost never go on Facebook 🙃

[lloydasspound]

Thinking like wtf did Lloyd do to get so many haters in the show...... Like am i crazy he's a little emotionally stupid but that's just the autism..... meanwhile suzakus calling him a freak of nature behind his back and cecile goes drinking and gambling and bashing students over the head bcuz how supposedly horrible and terrible and stressful of a boss he is and the background aseec characters literal only lines are like "ugh poor cecile working for THAT guy"!!!! But he literally does not do anything he is not abusing his coworkers he is not overworking everyone and paying minimum wage (i think) hes not even that mean..... He is just kind of annoying and more passionate about robots than any of you losers ever will be.......

[dullahandyke]

i look at some of u guys talking abt a new show u watched or a new thing u read and im like. holy shit thats a thing u can do. im in awe of u. i spend my time slowly ping-ponging between several interests whose base componants i can never experience because i get scard

[guinevereslancelot]

i'm so bummed i accidentally turned town a job interview for a job where I could have worked with a good friend and mentor 😔

[narumi-gens]

Aw my dad is so cute. It was his bday this weekend (our bdays are super close) and he picked a fancy restaurant and now feels bad bc the bill was high and apologized and said that Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are their treats.

He said “we enjoy your warm company in spite of the cold weather” 🥺🥺🥺