I like what I get to do for a living. But I also have a constant gut feeling to switch careers to something more meaningful before it’s too late. But no idea what.

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everything in a capitalist society feeds the capitalist machine. that capitalist machine is why inequity, marginalization and structural violence exist.

I say this all to tell you - no matter where you go to work, you'll never feel like it's meaningful enough.

Good luck though.

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@S1 damn that’s dark

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Write your obituary. What do you want to be remembered for after you’re gone? Spend time pursuing that, and you will feel fulfilled. Everything else is filler.

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@S1 welp that’s one way to sober me up. 🤯

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I did something meaningful and didn’t make money for ten years.

I switched because having the money is FUCKING AWESOME.

Don’t leave a nice, easy check. (By easy I mean what we do can be fun, I know the hours are long.)

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There’s countless places you can volunteer and organizations that are completely Not For Profit that do make a huge difference. We do live in a now globalized capitalist economy and change needs to be made from the top in order to actually better, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t things we can do to actively make change? My friend who volunteers for No Mas Muertes saved someone from dying her very first day, and that’s meaningful.

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