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Find meaning and fulfillment with things outside of your career.
Seems like you received some bad guidance over the years. Work is work. If you’re lucky you’ll find something meaningful. You happiness is in relationships - family friends spouse etc.
Red vine and some sweets. I feel like I am falling to the deep depression.
do you attend therapy? there’s a lot of good ideas in the comments, but i’ve found therapy to be a good way to try and verbalize these types of things. You will learn a lot about yourself and that will help you obtain the things that you want.
Agree that therapy would help OP find the solution that is right for them
Don’t listen to these folks telling you to take on more responsibility to be fulfilled (kids, house, marriage). Those things will limit you in finding what actually does fulfill you. If you don’t have those responsibilities network, research and find what may actually interest/fulfill you and then go after it. You can find fulfillment outside of work, but even if you only work 40 hours a week that’s a lot of time spent doing things that don’t fill your cup only to have a weekend to recover.
You need some solid goals: buy a house, find a partner, build a family etc. that’s my motivation. Work in the big picture is just a tool to get to those goals, not the opposite.
Don’t listen to SC1 find meaning in the small stuff and find your hobbies and interests outside of work. Think of your job as finding your hobbies. Some solid goals ain’t buying a house and living a boring suburban life.
Rising Star
Realize that it’s better to find meaning and fulfillment outside the workplace than in the workplace. Also realize that doing for others is the path to enlightenment.
Rising Star
Do what you love and love what you do. If you don’t like your work then become a teacher or go into government. Both are helping other people.
I know a lot of people who find meaning outside work hours, they work to live and work a lot of hours but they don’t live to work. People can find meaning outside of work with as little as an hour a week or two a week.
Just those with less time need to be more efficient in finding meaning outside of work. It can be done, and I am hopeful you find a way to get more meaning outside of work. You aren’t guaranteed tomorrow, so either maximize what time you have or switch to a career that pays less and gives you more time outside of work hours.
You need a kid
Certainly don’t need any kids. This is coming from someone who has four of them already in search of life meaning and realizing that it’s also a social trick full of bs promoted especially for women.
Chief
Focus on wealth/capital and not income/labor. Buy some investments and let them do the work for you.
Chief
Stay at it and view a job as short term income, not long term stability. Convert income into assets. It takes time and commitment but it’s how to make it big in the long run. When y LI retire do you want to collect social security or rental income from a bunch of duplexes?
Praying for you - hope you are able to find your peace and rest in Jesus!
Same bro - 3 years into the game here. I assume it’s the feeling tied to this career. My thought is to switch it up
Go serve in the military. Find a reason.
I’m still working on this. Interested in others’ responses.
Your post is lacking any mention of doing things for yourself or others. Such traveling or volunteering.
Find what makes you tick — the intersection of your passions and interests
Material possessions gives you pleasure. Thats different from happiness the path for which is not based on grand plans to achieve material stuff, financial freedom etc. Yes till a point financial stability is very important for peace but beyond that happiness is based on non materialistic stuff - giving, gratitude, realizing self through meditation, connecting with the higher power whatever your belief is. Happiness which is contentment of the mind comes from such stuff and not more money or materialism. But that doesnt mean live poor, you need certain money for stability and having the basics of life (basics again can be different for different people, for some it could be a working car and roof, for others is a luxury car and a 5000 sq ft house and vacations every year). The chase of materialism has no end, it will still leave you hungry in your mind.