Busting the Myth of "Loving What You Do"
As a recent college graduate - recent as in "within the last ten years" - I have heard my fair share of lectures on the topic "Loving What You Do." You've heard it as well, of course. The theory is that if you choose something that you "love" as your career, then work won't feel like work.
I have had the opportunity to meet a few of these rare people in my life. Those that truly love what they do and who don't view it as "work." I had a brief career as a high school English teacher (a career I chose because I "loved" to read and write) where I was lucky enough to be around people who truly loved their jobs. This showed me that I, in fact, did not truly "love" what I was doing.
I do love to read and write. I was never wrong in that regard. But I also love to see movies. And travel. Snowboard. Lay on a beach. Stay up late at a bar with friends debating the latest in politics and celebrity love affairs. And my job as a teacher never let me do any of that.
And actually, many jobs don't really leave you much time to do those things that you love outside of work. The average job in the US only provides ten days of vacation time. Which is why it is no surprise to me that people are searching for a Google income program - a work at home job that provides inbox dollars, not overtime hours. A Google income program that may not be what they love, but that allows them actual time in their life to dedicate to those things.
I don't love what I do for a job. I am a freelance technical writer. I do have an English Writing degree after all (English teacher, remember). Companies ask me to write reports, blog posts on the progress of new initiatives, reviews, the list goes on and on. And while I personally am bored to death during the six hours a day that I work, I only work six hours a day.
The real truth is, I think, that I don't need to do a job I love, just a job that I don't hate that doesn't require me to be there all day. Because now, when I'm done with work, the rest of the day is suddenly dedicated to what I love. I read more books now than I did when I was a teacher. And I remember why I loved reading in the first place - it's a lot more fun when it's not an obligation.
My Google income program, my personal inbox dollars - while not enough to buy me a beach house on Malibu that I would never see because I would be working too hard to pay the mortgage - is enough for me because I'm happy. And at the end of the day, isn't that what all those lectures were about in the first place? How to be happy. Just because they were wrong about how to get there doesn't mean they were wrong about it being worth it.
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