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Serious - Don't follow your passion. I did. Went to school for something I was passionate about. Did well and graduated. I got a job in my field. But soon enough, my passion felt like work. My priorities shifted as I aged and I grew to hate what I studied and once fell passionate about.
Find a career path that makes you money. Once you have that money you can make time to dabble in your passion projects and hobbies. Just wanted to add a different perspective to the meme :)
You can do both and people have done for ages. The thing about work is that you need to do it even when you don't want to, which makes some people resentful. But that's the difference between a hobby and work. Passion has nothing to do here. There are passionate people who went into a job because of it and won't trade it for anything.
I agree with what you're saying. You gotta work even when you don't feel like it. Being passionate makes it easier to work (in some cases).
easier to be taken advantage of by employers too
This 100%. I've worked in some sort of IT all my life. It took what I lived and turned it into a job.
Never follow the money. Never follow the money. Nothing is worse than having your soul sucked out of you hour by hour because you wanted to "follow the money."
I'm sick and tired of this Reddit-ass kind of "advice" meant only for neurotypical white men. Male defaultism is one of many things we should not import here.
the thing about having your soul-sucked is that you can bounce back and recover. and let me tell ya, it's a whole lot easier to recover with money than without. The second part of your response seems to come with a little baggage. Maybe you should follow the money to afford a therapist? LOL
I can tell you that, no, you cannot always "just bounce back". Maybe you can, good for you, but that does not apply to everyone
Kindly go fuck yourself sir!