>> Those "passion" people are going to become very dissatisfied with work and life - there's very, very few jobs that have the ability to provide that.
Maybe that's a good thing. If there's enough of them the entire concept will have to be reexamined (UBI for example or digital nomads, etc.). I think a lot more people are just starting to realise that owning a house and a car and having a few kids and a couple of ex-wives and a mountain of 'stuff' isn't necessary.
There are lots of jobs that will provide fulfilment. Most of them, of course, won't pay anywhere as near as well as your average office work - they pay enough though for someone who doesn't want the things I mentioned above.
Edit: Claiming having lots of money and 'stuff' isn't important apparently gets you lots of down votes now...strange.
>Maybe that's a good thing. If there's enough of them the entire concept will have to be reexamined (UBI for example or digitals nomads, etc.)
Finding "passion" in your job is an entirely new concept. We've been around quite some time and, for 99.9% of that time and for 99.9% of the people, a job is a job. Nothing more than a means to an end. I don't see how UBI follows from people realizing what we've known for millennia.
I disagree. There are a lot more meaningless jobs these days that are totally unfulfilling. I've done manual labour and as hard on the body as it was it was more fulfilling than coding another photo/social app, even though I was certainly not passionate about the manual labour. Doing the coding job felt more akin to picking things off a conveyer belt in a factory for 8 hours. It did nothing for the body or the mind. I think there are more and more of those kinds of BS jobs now than there were in the past than provide little to no stimulation.
I would argue that this isn't a new concept, we just lost a lot of those jobs in the industrial revolution. If it feels like a new concept it's because we're only just now starting to drop a lot of the toxic habits introduced by it.
I could easily see a tradesman before being "passionate" about his work, though they probably wouldn't have used that language.
That's fair. I didn't mean to imply that no one took passion in their work prior to e.g. 1995, only that it wasn't a driving force. We didn't tell our children (or ourselves) to only pursue those careers for which we felt "passionate". First and foremost you had to feed yourself and your family. That was the goal.
Another differentiating factor now may be education and age at which someone starts a family. In my parents generation you finished your education at 16 or 18. I don't know the numbers but I believe it was a minority that continued after that. You also got married and started a family (and bought a house) by your mid-20's. So feeding your family becomes an important driver. Now that these things are pushed back many years people have more freedom to take the time to choose (much easier to feed only yourself with a little 'side project') and without the driver of providing for a family (and your employment necessary to their survival) it's more necessary to look for work that is fulfilling in other ways (i.e. you are passionate about it).
Maybe that's a good thing. If there's enough of them the entire concept will have to be reexamined (UBI for example or digital nomads, etc.). I think a lot more people are just starting to realise that owning a house and a car and having a few kids and a couple of ex-wives and a mountain of 'stuff' isn't necessary.
There are lots of jobs that will provide fulfilment. Most of them, of course, won't pay anywhere as near as well as your average office work - they pay enough though for someone who doesn't want the things I mentioned above.
Edit: Claiming having lots of money and 'stuff' isn't important apparently gets you lots of down votes now...strange.