Having watched a famous Steve Jobs speech I have decided success is not being a billionaire. It is doing stuff you love. Just aim for that. That might be in a corporate job or you might need to start a business.
In todays world, many people live with messed up dopamine receptors. And if you never had parents that really taught you crucial things, you're basically LARPing all your life-- emulating other peoples behavior without really understanding the "why?".
If you constantly getting your "hit" from social media and junk food "doing stuff you love" is anything but obvious.
Every person who is already rich likes to say do what you love. That's great advice once you're financially set, but until then you need to find something you can tolerate that makes money.
> find something you can tolerate that makes money.
That has different answers for different people. I've had this conversation several times:
- Them: "You work hard? Try working as a mechanic/builder".
- Would you like to change with me?
- Nah, I couldn't keep sitting 8h doing mundane office work day after day.
I'm a programmer, but I also helped build a building so I know what is hard physical work. It typically gives more satisfaction than programming, but programming pays better.
Yeah I didn’t give that enough nuance. I should have said do what you love to the extent that it can make you a living. The novel writer works as a technical author. I wanted to write games for the Acorn Electron when I grew up. Writing Typescript for web applications ain’t a bad second.
It's like all the talk product/market fit "You will notice when it happens"
....okay?