[fny]

Maybe you're a person who works to live? If so, embrace it.

Those who enjoy their work are often the opposite: they live to work.

You could try tech or any number of other jobs (EMT always sounded fun to me.) But your goal should be to find something that you can tolerate, clock out, and lets you live your life.

Stop putting "fulfilling work" and "career" on a pedestal and have fun.

[schwartzworld]

Emt is a hard and thankless job with super low pay. It's really a shame

[reducesuffering]

Ya, unfortunately it's a supply and demand issue. Lot's of people use it temporarily for patient-care hours to segue into a type of medical school or career. So pay isn't of concern to most of them.

[viciousplant]

kudos for this.

[exikyut]

> Maybe you're a person who works to live? If so, embrace it.

> Those who enjoy their work are often the opposite: they live to work.

Huh. Squinting at this from exactly the right angle, that can kinda read the very idea of living to work is paradoxically catastrophic, at once fulfilling and shallow and existentially meaningless. As though work-life balance were interpreted backwards, or something.

I've obviously been looking at "do what you love" positively for a while now, but now I really wonder... maybe working to live, and enjoying what you do just a little bit, but not completely, is the ideal balance.

Hmm. Now I realize that not being entirely consumed by work and finding identity in that loss of self also has the benefit of making emotional and mental job flexibility easier - and in tech, that's a necessity.