I think I agree, maybe?

"Follow your passion is bad career advice" - Huffington Post

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I have always been a go-getter if you will. the kind of person that likes to be challenged and then succeed. i mean, who doesn't? i wouldn't say that i settle or that i am content with just going through the motions. i am not the kind of person that is professionally fulfilled living in my small town, having a small job and leading a "simple" life. i don't think i really have ever been that way. i do know that i want my cake and i'd like to eat it too. but, when you think about passion or happiness or you think abut what makes you want to enjoy your life to the fullest...following your passion might seem like a good idea.... until now. 

i read this article last night and it takes the wondrous spirit every young twenty-something has and questions the motive. unfortunately, i think i agree with it? what about you?

"Year after year, you perform work that makes full use of your skills and challenges you to develop new ones. Your work not only interests you, it gives you a sense of meaning. You enjoy opportunities for learning and development. You work with people who energize you. You are confident that your skills and competencies make you valuable and marketable and that you can access opportunities through your network. You are able to fit your work together with the other things in your life that are important to you, like family, friends, and leisure."

this article begs the question, "Is it better to discover your passion, or develop it?" and like i mentioned, i seem to think the latter. 

it can be "easy" to want to pack up, pick up and move on in search for what you are passionate about. it could be photography, it could be traveling, it could be the arts or even science...all things that people so carelessly in a moments notice can make big life decisions in an attempt to obtain. what makes this idea even more challenging is witnessing people who have followed "their passion" and don't actually work a day in their lives (or their new lives) because they love their job that much. you know the kind... the photographers, the mom bloggers or the artists that can actually make a living (a comfortable one at that, doing what they feel they are set on this earth to do) I'm fairly certain Confucius once said something along those lines.

"Instead of focusing on passion, look deeply at what energizes you, what you find rewarding, what you're good at and what comes to you easily. Valcour advises examining your high and low points at work, and identifying the times that you felt more energized, engaged and fulfilled -- and why you felt this way."

i think being self aware in situations like these are important for discovering what makes you happy and fulfilled or simply content...therefore passionate about life, not just a profession. everyone has dreams, or at least they should, but it might not always be the right career move to chase them if you could be passionate about what you have in front of you. 

now, if you've tried to engage with your surroundings and develop your passion, and still are in search for something more then it might be time to discover something else.

like i said, i think i agree, maybe?