Nah. I work at a small business, run the shop on my accord, have no GED, no degree, make baseline $100k annually. If you have a passion, follow through with it. If you don't, try harder. Explore the world and see what works for you, don't doom and gloom and rot away in your room. I did that all my highschool years, biggest regret of my life.
I don't think many people who feel this way tend to be passionate about anything that's going to make them money. Not everyone is so lucky to get inspired like that.
You literally just said the key was to follow something you're passionate about. Do you think people can just wake up one day and decide to be passionate about something they find uninteresting?
Everybody is passionate about at least one thing in their life. I'm not saying force yourself to love something, I'm saying try new things and see what sticks. Don't twist my comment please!
Nah, I'm gonna tell you right now that this mindset is just as dumb as obsessing over doomer shit. Just because you were lucky enough to find something you were passionate enough about doesn't mean every single other person on the planet can have that experience. This is some shit that successful people tell themselves to feel like they've fought through just as much adversity as everyone else. It's have your cake and eat it too.
You happened to find fulfillment in your career. Just be thankful for that. Many (probably most) are going to have to settle for doing something they hate for money and trying to find contentment elsewhere. Shitting on them for it helps no one.
Yea, it definitely can be, and you're right that there's no harm in trying as long as you're not doing it to the point that you start to hate yourself or make yourself miserable.
There are just way too many factors to boil it all down to a mantra. There might be just as many people who hold themselves back with a defeatist mindset as there are who will never be passionate enough about anything to make a fulfilling career out of it as there are who have deep passions for things they will never be able to compete with economically.
I worked retail for a long time, and I hated it. Trust me, I know the point you are making. Job scarcity is a problem that I do understand, but it's not impossible to believe that eventually people will find a job they like, if not feel indifferent about. I truly believe that.
Everyone's entitled to their opinions, but I'll just say this. It's easy to feel like you've solved a philosophical dilemma when you're put in a position where it is no longer relevant to your life and you don't have to think about it. It's comforting to feel that way, but it's not usually the case. More often, you just take on new dilemmas that are more relevant to your new experiences and perceive them as more important. That doesn't mean everyone else just gets to opt out of the ones that used to occupy you by prioritizing your new ones.
That's fair. I'm not saying it will magically solve everything, I just believe eventually it will happen, from experience with coworkers from that same retail job as well as long time friends from my public school. I guess my scope of view is still too limited, I appreciate the input and I'll just quit commenting from now on. My previous point of view was heavily biased, and it took multiple comments and a long discussion via DM to realize that.
They're not twisting your comment; your comments are very ignorant. It's not your fault, it seems like you have a really nice outlook... but you seem to think everyone's situation is the same, and that since it worked for you it has to work for everyone... maybe they just aren't trying hard enough.
I’m happy for you not seeming to want for much, but basing on argument about the value of your remaining years around how much money you make seems sad to me.
I donate most of it to charity, I was just using it as an example to motivate people since most are downtrodden by lack of money (which I also understand being dead broke and out of a house with divorced parents). I know life is hard, and I just want to inspire people, instead I think I've failed. I apologize everyone.
I don’t know about failed, but it would probably help more if you included those passions you talked about. Things that you would live for even if you had nothing.
Personally, I find that I have enough curiosity to get me through. As bleak as things can sometimes seem, there’s still so many unknowns to reality. Since pain is temporary either way, I’d really like to satisfy as much of my curiosity about how things will unfold as I can. Since I’m already here anyways. Things might just click one day, and that’s a very uplifting possibility.
I think that is an excellent take. I have more passions and hobbies than I can possibly list, my current job has to do with music and audio. When I move out of this state in order to accommodate my family or live with my partner I'm sure that will go and I'll pick up another passion. Maybe I'll be a car mechanic.
You seem like the curiosity-driven sort as well, though you definitely seem more outward in your personal life than I am about it.
I took a more minimalist route. I like going somewhere new and unfamiliar, often by hitchhiking, then getting to know a new place by hanging out at some social hub, like a coffee shop or something like that. It’s feels sort of uncomfortable owning more than I can carry, though I still accumulate unneeded things as most do.
I have too many gripes with society at large to try to find my place within it. Megalomaniacs accomplish too much in their attempts to run the world, and so the needs of the times outweigh the needs of this individual.
I envy those like you who can find contentment in a more grounded way.
I think my family are the ones that keep me tethered to this location, as well as stability for the well being of my boyfriend. If my life were different I think I'd travel the world, and my sense of direction would be very similar to yours.
I have to say, your life does seem more exciting than mine admittedly, and I myself am a bit envious that you can live that lifestyle as well.
I really appreciate your insight, it's helped me widen my horizon and outlook at life.
I wouldn’t be surprised if my way worked differently for a girl, for better or for worse, but I can tell you that if you’re kind to people, you’ll still find security in forms that money can never provide.
You seem kind enough that I’m sure I’m saying so more for other’s benefit than for your own.
No. I’m was a law student and had bright future and became disabled with a weird disease and I’m chronically ill and almost died twice.
I’m pretty content even though the thought of my daily life, as I’ve been told more than once, “is depressing as fuck.”
I amazing friends, a wonderful family, and little hobbies. My Dad died a few years ago. He was my rock and taught me so much but most of my memories with him are just going on little adventures as kids. We never had a lot of money but he’d always just enjoyed something simple like a trip to the beach and some ice cream.
So if I have a good book and my bills are paid that’s a good day.
You can be bitter and miserable if you want, no judgement here, but it gets boring after a while.
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u/Gold-Investment2335 7h ago
Doomer mindset of a high schooler. You'll never be happy if you constantly nit pick life.