People Are Sharing The Awful Experiences We Romanticize, And It’s Hard To Ignore

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“Turning your hobby into a career. Society tells you to “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”, but the reality is that once you have to pay rent with your passion, the passion dies a slow, painful death. Now your relaxing hobby has deadlines, nightmare clients, and taxes attached to it. You didn’t find ‘freedom’; you just destroyed your only escape from the real world. I’d much rather have a boring job that pays well and a hobby I’m allowed to be mediocre at without a business plan.”

— Wide_Cover8139

“I love working on cars. There was a time I was working towards being a mechanic.

Then it hit me. Doing another oil change on another poorly maintained Corolla that needed so much more than the owner was willing to pay for.

I don’t like this. I don’t want to do this. Expensive tools, back pain, shoulder pain, busted knuckles, dumbass people who buy a used BMW but don’t want to pay for expensive BMW parts (your funeral mate) it just grinds you down.

So I gave up on that career path. Got a job in a call center. Became some middle management douche. Air conditioning, paid holiday time, work from home days. It’s nice.” — CT0292