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Originally Posted by Olive303
I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume that there is a job out there we will always love. I never want to work a job that I hate but I can’t imagine always loving what I do.
I am searching for something I love. I realized I don’t want this career I’m in just a few months ago. I can’t exactly jump ship if I don’t even know which ship I’m jumping into. Over the last few months I’ve explored careers, masters programs, trade schools, jobs. My next step is some informational interviewing and job shadowing. I have put the breaks on this in the last few weeks due to the status of my relationship and serious talk of breaking up and moving back home.
I know that being an immigrant doesn’t mean not having an awesome job. I made that comment in response to what Rose said about the younger generation thinking life is wonderful and all our dreams come true and then real life rears it’s ugly head. I thought maybe I didn’t relate to that because I didn’t grow up with this notion of “follow your passion” because I am an immigrant and in my culture work is work and not “supposed to be” something you enjoy. If it is then great. Of course I’m somewhere in the middle with a healthy dose of “you won’t love every part of your job or every job or every day” but i at least hope to like it more often than not.
My life would be my career, my family, my friends, travel, and a relationship.
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There might be a career that you will always love.
If you choose a career that you love then yes it’s very reasonable.
I love my job and always have, so does my husband, my daughter, one of my stepdaughters (the other one is still unsure), both my nephews, my nephew’s wife, my brother, several of not all my friends, my cousins, my father who still works, my mother before she retired etc etc We are all in different fields but we love our careers. Examples of careers we love not in order for anonymity reasons: teacher, nurse, engineer, executive chef, firefighter, lawyer, police detective, business owner, software developer, graphic artist etc Actually my hair dresser loves her job too.
Your issue of not loving your job might be due not having or wanting a profession. So the trick is to have a profession/career, not just a job.
It’s very sad you think it’s unreasonable to have a job you always love. I never did not love my job
I don’t know where you immigrated from but I myself am an immigrant and know ton of other immigrants from all over the world, most certainly many of us pursued career of our dreams, didn’t just work. People have careers all over the world. But maybe where you are from people just work, so that’s besides the point. You are now live in the US. Not pursuing your dreams is very sad.
Not every dream will come true but you can still achieve many of them if not all.