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lopatir28-Jun-17 5:55
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Marc Clifton28-Jun-17 6:17
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
You don't really see that type of passion in most industries.


Actually, I do. I know doctors and nurses that are incredibly passionate about their work. I play poker with guys that run their own construction companies, write editorials for news journals, work for drug companies, etc., and they all love their work. I know a lawyer that is passionate about their work in legal representation for women. They are all involved in "creating", whether it's a deck, an informative article, better medicine, better human conditions.

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
As a whole, we're changing the planet.


With little ethics applied to those changes. Wink | ;)

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
So has anyone else found themselves jaded for a period while the industry finds itself, yet to only realize that as people we are right where we are meant to be?


Yes, but then again, the industry is always finding itself, and whatever flash in the pan it finds itself in at the moment is often not one that I'm eager to partake in. That was the case when I was in my 20's, and is so in my 50's now as well. Actually, tech has itself made the flash-in-the-pan effect worse.

I don't know if I would go so far as to say we are right where we are meant to be. Literally where am I sitting right now (cubicle, insurance company) there are people around me that are doing what they are doing for the paycheck and nothing more. It's frustrating to be mostly surrounded by people that have passion only for the paycheck.

Personally, having gone through a soul searching process a few years back, I came to various conclusions that work for me:
  1. I'm better off if I ignore the industry, do what I'm passionate about doing, and look at the industry for "has it done anything useful that I can take advantage of?"
  2. balance that with the reality that sometimes I have to do something I have no passion for because, yes, I need the paycheck too.
  3. balance that with recognizing that the tech is irrelevant, and what I have passion for and what makes life worthwhile is the interactions with the people. Real interactions, not IM's, emails, Slack chats, etc. Interacting with tech ultimately is a rather hollow experience.
  4. balance my enthusiasm for hollow tech by writing articles to touch people's lives. Thank goodness for tech so that I can do that!
And the whole thing is balanced by doing non-tech things, from learning to play the lyre to hanging out in coffee houses for interesting random encounters with people to having a spiritual life that involves going to study groups and reading together with my gf.

Marc
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