{"id":4053,"date":"2012-01-14T05:45:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:40:16","slug":"should-you-really-do-what-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/should-you-really-do-what-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you really do what you love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like contrarian advice &#8212; not that I always agree with the devil&#8217;s advocate view, but I think it&#8217;s useful to challenge conventional wisdom and reconsider whether you still believe it&#8217;s true.<br \/>\nFor example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=eight-glasses-water-per-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do you really need to drink eight glasses of water a day?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1812420,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is eight hours of sleep best for you?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/03\/magazine\/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Should all couples be monogamous?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2012\/01\/11\/red-wine-researcher-accused-falsifying-data-on-health-benefits\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are you really drinking that glass of red wine for your health?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s with that appreciation for against-the-grain opinions that I was attracted to a Penelope Trunk post headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2007\/12\/18\/bad-career-advice-do-what-you-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bad Career Advice: Do what you love<\/a>.<br \/>\nTrunk writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Often, the thing we should do for our career is something we would only do if we were getting a reward. If you tell yourself that your job has to be something you&#8217;d do even if you didn&#8217;t get paid, you&#8217;ll be looking for a long time. Maybe forever. So why set that standard? The reward for doing a job is contributing to something larger than you are, participating in society, and being valued in the form of money.<br \/>\nThe pressure we feel to find a perfect career is insane. And, given that people are trying to find it before they are thirty, in order to avoid both a <a title=\"quarterlife crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2006\/07\/31\/navigating-the-quarterlife-crisis\/\">quarterlife crisis<\/a> and a <a title=\"biological-clock crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2006\/12\/28\/the-difficult-convergence-work-and-family-by-age-30\/\">biological-clock crisis<\/a>, the pressure is enough to push people over the edge. Which is why one of the <a title=\"highest risk times for depression\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2006\/09\/08\/how-to-deal-with-depression-at-work\/\">highest risk times for depression<\/a> in life is in one&#8217;s early twenties when people realize how totally impossible it is to simply &#8220;do what you love.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2011\/12\/20\/following-your-bliss-taking-a-heros-journey-inspired-by-finding-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new documentary on Joseph Campbell<\/a>, who advocated that we follow our bliss. And I believe it&#8217;s so important to making life meaningful that we find the things that bring us joy and make them a priority in our lives.<br \/>\nBut I think Trunk&#8217;s argument is worth contemplating &#8212; maybe we drive ourselves crazy by trying to make a living at the thing we love, when it could be enough to do that thing for free.<br \/>\nI love to cook. However, I know enough people in the restaurant business to know doing it professionally is a high-stress gig that would likely turn me off to cooking. So I love doing it just for fun, and that&#8217;s enough.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, I get paid to put together marketing plans, design surveys and set pricing plans, among other things. Would I do any of those if I wasn&#8217;t getting paid? No, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t enjoy them. I&#8217;m happy with my career path.<br \/>\nTrunk further writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>if you are overwhelmed with the task of &#8220;doing what you love&#8221; you should recognize that you are totally normal, and maybe you should just forget it. Just do something that caters to <a title=\"your strengths\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jtodonnell.com\/assessment\/signup.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your strengths<\/a>. Do anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What do you think &#8212; about doing what you love, or about water, sleep, wine or monogamy?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like contrarian advice &#8212; not that I always agree with the devil&#8217;s advocate view, but I think it&#8217;s useful to challenge conventional wisdom and reconsider whether you still believe it&#8217;s true. For example: Do you really need to drink eight glasses of water a day? Is eight hours of sleep best for you? Should all couples be monogamous? 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