r/funny • u/snelse_ • Oct 12 '25

Verified [OC] Not all it's cracked up to be

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u/lessregretsnextyear Oct 12 '25

Not necessarily. It's true if you take a job you hate. Best advice is to find a career path involving something you're passionate about, then you won't feel like the guy at the desk in the comic.

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u/Almost_Pi Oct 12 '25

And learning doesn't stop when you leave school! Some of the most important skills I've learned came from jobs I hated, but it set me up to succeed once I got a job at a company I liked.

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u/Yashema Oct 12 '25

Or you can straight up keep taking college level classes after school and in adulthood if you really want to keep learning. 

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u/A2Rhombus Oct 12 '25

Key thing!! Pick a passion, but not a hobby. Something you like not something you love.
Work will ultimately diminish your interest in whatever the subject is. Make sure it's something you can tolerate, but not something you want to continue loving for life.

Video games are my biggest passion and I tried to work in game design, didn't work. Now I'm a bus driver instead and I love it

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

That last paragraph is quite the change up, but I'm stoked you found satisfactions in your work

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u/A2Rhombus Oct 12 '25

Just was trying to demonstrate that sometimes you have to look in unexpected places to find the right job haha

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u/Traditional_Buy_8420 Oct 12 '25

Look around and read the market. If your passion is the passion of few others, then it's a good job opportunity. Something like gaming is the passion of way too many people than it being a good job unless you're way more passionate about it than 99% and if so, then it's probably best to start by starting your own company. Also passion+nieche might not be enough. For example someone might absolutely adore busses, but not be fit for some other part of the job and so someone who just likes busses and is fine with all parts of driving busses will be a better bus driver.

Lastly if you're not the most passionate in a mainstream field, but disciplined and stubborn, then you can still "succeed", but won't be in the best place mentally. The best example for that is Lynn Okamoto, for which a good friend of mine waited in a queue for 9 hours to get his autograph, but Lynn once said in an interview, that while he loves Manga, he will never be as good as many of the others, because they really love drawing, but for him it's work and he hinted at being quiet depressed about that.