Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?

Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not really.

  I hated work most of my life, and then got some good career guidance from a book called “Discover What You Are Best At.”

  I found a job that used my talents in a way that kept me interested.

  You don’t have to work on passion projects like art or research to be content.

  Just find something where you feel engaged.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I managed to find very interesting jobs couple of times. After a year or two management changes, projects change, co-workers change. Many things make work “fun” and you usually don’t control any of it. My last company in couple of years went from nice place to work to corporate shithole with low morale. Had to stay interested in a place like that.

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    • Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yup this is me right now. I work with an amazing team and was really liking my job for the past three years. Then 2 months ago we got a new Associate Director who immediately set herself to bullying, denigrating, and tearing apart everything and everyone. I’m currently waiting to see which comes first; I get fired or I quit.

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        She’s probably trying to pad her resume for her next job.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was very lucky. The job I liked was in civil service. Relatively low amount of bull from management.

      The trouble is that most managers and other higherups are already planning their next job move the day they get hired. They don’t care about the people who are working there.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s still work somedays.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, but there’s a big difference between ‘man, the job sucked today’ and ‘my god, I hate this job, nothing good ever happens.’

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Your last two sentences defeat what came before…

    Work is work. It’s not passion projects, it’s work. You don’t have to love it

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You don’t have to work on passion projects like art or research to be content.

      Just find something where you feel engaged.

      Are you talking about these two sentences above?

      Because it sounds like we agree.

      I am not sure I understand your point.

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