Would you rather work on a passion project with tiny pay but full creative freedom, or a corporate gig with a solid paycheck but zero soul? Everyone says they’d pick passion, but I’ve seen plenty of people burned out from underpaid “dream projects.”

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Prioritizing passion is a luxury many of us simply cannot afford. Give me the money and soulless work.

Tiny pay that I can live off of, kind of, or I have to worry about paying my electric bill? A solid paycheck is peace of mind to me, groceries, roof over my head. More than happy to have that and do the passion projects on my time.

We’d all love to do the passion project but that’s just not realistic, I’d rather work on the passion but realistically it’s never going to be the option I pick.

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