[...] with what to do if you can’t find a job you love. GRS came back with a great post full of links to posts on loving your job, and then mentioned that one of the secrets to becoming a self-made millionaire is: Passion pays [...]

Now, I have found other authors who bring some balance back into that equation. I enjoy the job I have, and the work I do. But I’ve reached the top of my pay scale, and I would like to go a lot farther–at least until I get my debts paid off. Which means either taking time from the fulfilling things to make extra money, or turning one or more of my “fulfilling” things into a way to make more money. I am pushing for the latter. . . .

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with striving to find a job which you’re passionate about & fulfils you. I know I am – and every year, my dream job gets a little clearer and closer.

I do think there’s something wrong with looking down on your job in the meanwhile as unworthy of you. There’s a quote I like: ‘no job is inferior, only people are inferior’.

A job is not just a means to earn a living wage, it’s not just an avenue for personal fulfilment, it’s also our contribution to a functioning society, a contribution I’m happy to make regardless of what I do. There’s good in every job if we’d only open ourselves up to see it. And I think if we can’t learn to be happy where we are, no job is going to do that for us.

And in any case, I suspect that if and when I do get my dream job, I will eventually be sated and aspire to a new, different dream job. So a dream job may be more about the journey than the destination so we may as well enjoy ourselves along the way.

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That said as far as education goes, I did not finish college. My salary is in the range of advanced education and I make fr more than anyone else I know. So yes it increase your potential but isn’t the only way to get a high paying job. In fact the job I really want thats related to my current one requires a degree but would involve a 30% pay cut

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If we can recognize what we like and can spend moments from our busy schedule (lucrative job) towards our dream (outside our job), I guess we are already on the right track of aligning our work with our inherent nature. I consider this one of the first steps of karma yoga. While selecting a major in college (and the first job) solely in accordance with our aptitude remains the ideal rule, our deeper interests may unveil late in life, responsibilities may not allow us to follow our dreams in early life, or our affinity to profits may simply be stronger.

Once we have identified a void in our life arising from a mismatch of our job with our instincts, we’ll sooner or later have to devote some time to activities that interest us. Now, if these moments give us more happiness, we may start spending more time in these new activities. As the quality of happiness grows, we may be encouraged to reassess our full-time professional preferences and our financial needs. And if we find that we have learned to place aptitude above profits, we may have successfully built a platform for “selfless karma.”

For believers in the Bhagavad Gita, our alignment with our true nature, which follows an alignment of our work with our instincts and an evolution in our instincts as well, is so gradual that it may take more than a lifetime. Nevertheless, once happiness at a spiritual plane higher than our current plane is experienced, it may be difficult to ignore it.

I started with an English degree, but quickly realized I love a lot of other things and moved my career to something much more lucrative.

It is like trying to force some one to eat something they don’t like. If they found it on their own, they might like it!