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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Intriguing. I think the point PP's father wanted her to grasp was that she should work very hard at something. Whatever she worked very hard at would be her true passion manifesting. I find it hard to believe that there is nothing you enjoy putting a great deal of effort into doing, especially given your impressive parents.[/quote]

I am the PP. In rereading my post I can see why others might have interpreted it differently.

There are things I enjoy doing but not everyone is going to be the next Ina Garten. It's not a question of being afraid of work. I wasn't afraid of long hours. I had the discipline from academia. But the field I'd more or less stumbled into was a field where you could work very long hours and be at the top of the field and still not even crack 100k salary unless it's one of those rare government jobs and you've accumulated enough steps over the years.

Most creative sector jobs fall into this category. We can mock the liberal arts graduate who ends up a Starbucks barista to the point that it's now a cliché, but there's a kernel of truth to it too. And I've also belatedly discovered that most people aren't going to work at jobs they genuinely love, it's having an occupation that gives them both a salary and sense of purpose, but the work itself is almost meaningless. You don't go into architecture unless you have a genuine passion for it, but the industry is also filled with former architects who burned out and switched to other jobs because the pay is terrible and they couldn't survive on it. For all their passion for architecture, it didn't lead to a better quality life outcome. It's too easy to get caught up in the idea of a passion when you're 18 or 21 without realizing only the top 1% or even less than that actually get to live a upper middle class lifestyle.

The class rage exhibited in the article is due to that she was capable enough to have done better, financially, but she chose to follow a calling rather than the money and is enraged while people who followed the money, people who were no better nor smarter than her, end up doing much better. But they made that decision. Very few people go into banking with a genuine passion for spreadsheets. They went into finance because it pays well. Law firm partners rarely love what they do, but they love the money. Corporate VPs rarely love what they do, but they do love the money. [/quote]

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