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by Sammi 250 days ago
This is why "follow you passion" is terrible career advise. If you make your passion your work then it stops being your "passion".

Much better career advise I've heard is: What kind you shit are you much better at suffering than other people around you seem to be?

Because work is work. There's a reason you get paid to do it. Sure it might be something that you are good at and care about, but if you need to work on it 8 hours a day, then you will inevitably start to feel the grind. This is why you get paid and go on vacations.

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This is what software development is for me; "just learn coding lol" is terrible career advice because it's simply not for everyone, just like management or marketing isn't for me.

I could do blue collar work, but preferably factory work.