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Originally Posted by fourthdan  People love what they are good at. Most of the times the way to become good is by developing skills and learning through practice.
In some ways it's better to pick a high paying occupation and become good at it so you learn to love it.  |
I tend to agree with you here fourthdan. Life works well when we take a highly pragmatic approach to our problems. Most jobs will have aspects that suck and aspects that challenge our adequacy. These are the things that grind us down if we don't adjust our minds to these practical difficulties, accept them and get on with taking steps to master whatever knowledge and skills are necessary to either fully overcome them or else contain them.
I've met plenty of graduates of politics, philosophy, literature and other subjects of marginal benefit in the commercial world who followed their interests/passions but now feel highly discontent with the real world job and income prospects available to them.
Few people have a burning passion from youth where they know exactly what they want to do and go all out for it. Those that do have a massive advantage over their peers because they have already been developing skills, knowledge and experience for 15years or more before they go into the market place. With that advantage it's no wonder that they excel brilliantly and have a greater likelihood of making risky propositions pay off.
For the rest of us we might as well accept that a lot of things about working life suck and have to be dealt with and that those problems are often generic whether you are in a high-paid or low-paid occupation. So, if in doubt, go for the higher paid occupation and resolve to improve your abilities so that you can deal with generic problems in highly effective ways.