| Learning to build discipline will keep you moving forward until you find interesting opportunities in most any problem. The world isn't responsible to entertain, fulfill or inspire us. We have to learn to see that for ourselves, until we do, we have to put in the work until we uncover things about ourselves we like doing. Try new things regularly to cultivate a truly open mind. Passion can't exist where logic alone is. Passion doesn't matter as much as you think. If you can through saying yes to solving problems uncover a universal passion (learning, helping others, making tech work for people) you will find it can be applied anywhere. This helps to separate the industry from the improvement and making a difference. Sometimes we have the same lessons to learn no matter the path we pick. Choice can be an illusion when we are still learning to become well rounded and would probably learn the same skills from a few equally positioned opportunities. If that doesn't make sense, for me the idea/area doesn't have to be as sexy as much as building the entire system around it, and effecting change with it. I have worked in some dry industries, but I had plenty to learn independent of industry which was thanks to good people. I picked up a lot of transferable skills that I applied when those opportunities that I felt passion for came up. PG is right, solve problems, build stuff that people want. Make tech work for people, not just the digitally inclined. |