Tbh, I don’t believe anyone who says they do what they love for work.
The difference between work and something you do because you love it is the money.
If you do something for money, you have to do it because otherwise you will run out of money. So even if you aren’t in the mood for it, even if you have done it for 8h per day for the last few years you still need to do it because you got dealines to meet and you have to deliver value.
You might like the thing you are doing in general, but as soon as you add the forced extrinsic motivation of depending on the money you make by doing something for work it directly devalues and diminishes the intrinsic motivation you get from doing something for fun.
You might enjoy drawing a painting. Believe me, you will not enjoy drawing paintings if you have to deliver 15 of them by friday afternoon.
People who are saying they do what they love for a living are either so rich that they don’t actually need the money at all and thus are actually doing hobby work and get paid for it, or they are lieing to themselves to make themselves feel better about investing their whole life time into work instead of something that would actually be fulfilling.
Tbh, I don’t believe anyone who says they do what they love for work.
The difference between work and something you do because you love it is the money.
If you do something for money, you have to do it because otherwise you will run out of money. So even if you aren’t in the mood for it, even if you have done it for 8h per day for the last few years you still need to do it because you got dealines to meet and you have to deliver value.
You might like the thing you are doing in general, but as soon as you add the forced extrinsic motivation of depending on the money you make by doing something for work it directly devalues and diminishes the intrinsic motivation you get from doing something for fun.
You might enjoy drawing a painting. Believe me, you will not enjoy drawing paintings if you have to deliver 15 of them by friday afternoon.
People who are saying they do what they love for a living are either so rich that they don’t actually need the money at all and thus are actually doing hobby work and get paid for it, or they are lieing to themselves to make themselves feel better about investing their whole life time into work instead of something that would actually be fulfilling.