How to Find a Job (That You Care About!) | Career Advice

I don't even want to make a job out of my passions. I just want to find a way to make a liveable income without spending 40+ hours a week working.

Dr. K does NOT miss. I'm generally very skeptical and critical of "self help" gurus but Dr. K's wisdom combined with his credentials have always resonated with me. It's incredible that he's putting this advice out for free.

I am not over ambitious like most people today. I just want a job that helps me pay my rent and utilities and doesn’t make me want to kill myself at the end of the day.

I think the fact that many people that comment on these videos always saying "This could not have come at a better time" or "Omg this is so relevant to me right now", means that, No, Dr K is not a mind reader. But the people who post on the subreddit are going through problems that we each can relate to. We are all one and there is a bit of us in all of them. I think it is quite romantic

I've always thought that there needs to be more systems in place during education that guide you toward careers you care about at least a little bit. it's such a huge part of people's lives and you feel like it would also be beneficial to the whole of society to have people working in the careers that best suit them.

This could not have come at a better time

It's hard to find a meaningful career in a system that's against meaning in favor of profit. Not impossible, just extremely difficult and frustrating.

I actually followed my passion and ended up leaving the path. Art, especially drawing always made me happy and excited. So I majored in the game graphic design, studied various types of th digital art. However, what I genuinely love and enjoy becoming a work caused serious issues for me because I started to be judged harshly and got forced to follow a certain market trend. The only thing that brightened up my life lost its light. I eventually couldn't finish the education even though I was literally a year away from the graduation because my depression and anxiety got extremely worse that I literally could not even leave a bed. Since then, for the last decade, I've suffered so much and lived like a loser who has no use in this world. Now I'm about to make another decision for my life, but I'm genuinely scared to follow my passion again because I remember how it worked for me last time.

Dr.K explains how to figure out what to do with our lives cause society has failed us all in properly educating us how to be well off human beings.

Sometimes you are in the right field/career but need a different job elsewhere. You can find yourself hating the career without realizing that the problem is the group of toxic group of people at work or horrible company culture or that the job isn’t particularly rewarding or interesting. The problem is the job, not the career path. It’s important to think about this issue before jumping ship.

On top of giving away this info for free, what I respect Dr. K for so much, is how helps you think of solutions in multiple ways instead of being stuck on a pattern like thought process

I honestly think you don't always have to turn your passion/hobby into your job. Maybe you want to have low stress job and play d&d with your friends on the weekends just for fun

Friends of mine and myself believe that work is something that you are at peace with doing consistently, with little burnout, that has some moments to be passionate about it. After observing people from most fields, this seems to be closest to a good mindset than other more idealistic models. I think a lot of humans forget to be grateful for what they already have, and forget or haven't-yet-learned that a big part of happiness is fuelled from within. The workaholic cultures do not help with the idea that you DO NOT want to put your absolute all towards work. Economies can be seen as measurements of how much humans want/appreciate specific things. Let's not forget we greatly appreciate our mental health, and let us not stand for business models that stand for anything less than.

I am not convinced that I can find a job I am passionate about or love doing for the rest of my life. For my entire life thinking about what I am passionate about and see what jobs suit me, I just couldn't find anything. The thing is to me, work is work, work is not meant to be fun and you just do it to get paid. From what I understand and experience, not everyone gets to find a job they love to do because finding what you are passionate about or love doing as a career is pretty damn impossible. It is pretty damn impossible for me because 1) I don't like anything competitive so I want a job where I can get hired easily. 2) I am an introvert so I do not like to deal with customers so the list of jobs I might of like reduces drastically, so my option is so little now 3) Turning a hobby into a job just makes my hobby feels like a chore than a job I love to do. 4) I have absolutely zero passion. It all narrows down to working in a restaurant, it is okay but I am thinking I can find something better but I don't know what that is. I may not find out what that is ever.

I feel like my phone is listening in on me and sends it all to Dr.K for him to make a video about it.

Here in Spain literally doesn't matter what you study or love, you won't have a job since we have 40%* youth unemployement and the jobs available are very low paid or you have a lot of chances of getting labor exploited :) *Edited and added "%"

I wish I could have seen this video over 5 years ago. No one puts things into perspective quite like you do. I am 33 and only got diagnosed with ADHD this year. I can honestly say your videos have changed my perspective on life and how I see myself. I finally feel like I am moving forward. Thank you.

Being 23 I quit being a "successful" car salesman, and probably wont find a normal job that pays more. Over coming this has been stressful but I know there is more to life than selling cars

Or, you could do what I did. Throw yourself out there, experience the pain and suffering of NOT doing what is right for you, it then becomes a process of elimination. It may take a few career changes but you will learn about yourself along the way. As Jordan Peterson says: "think about what you could be then aim single-mindedly at that". I joined the army because I thought it was the 'noble' and 'honorable' thing to do, turned out it wasn't, it was all about my ego (wanting to look good in a uniform etc.). I noticed that I wasn't like the people I was serving with, I asked 'why?' too much. Along the way I also noticed that I enjoyed listening to people, and I was more concerned with the wellbeing of those around me then just turning my head off and adopting a "soldier mindset". After I discharged (bitter and jaded) I thought "how can I help those who may have also ended up making the same mistake I did?" I put it all together and realised I want to study clinical psych. Studying and being broke sucks, but anything is bearable when you have MEANING and PURPOSE. Now I would have never came to that decision if I had never left the nest in the first place.

Let's be honest following a passion is a massive luxury afforded to a select few. I can be passionate about all sorts of things but there's so many factors here that are way beyond any single person's control. At the end of the day there will be always people doing the grunt work and some of us will have to cope with that for the rest of our lives