trevorhorace:


My brada . Passion is a mirage. And it changes over time. Passion is too fickle to base your whole life on. You may not fulfill your passion most of the time because a lot is involved more than to just have Passion. Talk about tangible things like talent, work ethic, networks and how they commensurate with your passion.

Forget what the media and motivational speakers are feeding. The first and most important instinct of man is to survive. Food, shelter, clothing, reproduction... These are paramount and every other thing comes secondary.

So if your career is solely what is making you thrive and live completely as a human species, then you're not on the wrong track.

Count the number of people fulfilling their passions but are broke and miserable, hungry and sick

Survival first.

I don't think you know what "passion" means.

Survival is for the ego, that's why we are in the mess that we are in.

trevorhorace:


Count the number of people fulfilling their passions but are broke and miserable, hungry and sick and dead.

Can you mention one person?

Only those that chase and work solely for money live a miserable life, they are all around you. Some waste their life working for retirement when they will have no energy left.
"TGIF" is one the slogan of those miserable people.

Maynman:

Can you mention one person?

Only those that chase and work solely for money live a miserable life, it's all around you. Some waste their life working for retirement when they will have no energy left.
"TGIF" is one the slogan of those miserable people.

You're mixing lack of financial planning with working for money, how despondent . Those who live miserable lives didn't plan well and kept themselves in the rat race.

I've never seen anyone with shit loads of money, touring the world and living their best life crying about passion.
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Taste real wealth first, then come back and preach passion to me

trevorhorace:


You're mixing lack of financial planning with working for money, how despondent . Those who live miserable lives didn't plan well and kept themselves in the rat race.

I've never seen anyone with shit loads of money, touring the world and living their best life crying about passion.
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Taste real wealth first, then come back and preach passion to me

Financial planning doesn't mean you are not living a miserable life. Going to work you don't like doing is part of the misery.

How do you know they are living their "best life", don't confuse money for wealth.
You have everything but you don't have yourself.

trevorhorace:

Taste real wealth first, then come back and preach passion to me

Money is not wealth, nothing will give you wealth more than doing what you love.

Becareful chasing pleasure, it eventually become pains.

Sulele04:

Hello boss, I am a 200 lvl csc student student honestly I am at a crossroad, I want to start freelancing & earning tech money on freelance platforms like Upwork/Fiverr to help studies but I don't know what part is lucrative & easy for me to get in.

Also for career I also don't know what part of tech to focus on, we are currently being taught Java this semester & I am also side learning javascript, but I am just doing all this with no particular end goal.

Can you please advice me cause I have no information. 🤲

For freelance, focus on front-end web development, using basic core Javascript, React and PHP. Avoid all those other shiny new frameworks, they are for full-time roles majorly.

Then WordPress, Converting PSD to HTML, Chrome extensions, Salesforce etc.

laivwire:

I won't bore you with long talk but what I'd say is from experience.

You will hardly find a job role that you're happy doing. You will eventually get tired of the monotony, office politics and even your wages after a while. Why? It's simply because companies do not give 2 cents about you or your passions no matter how much they talk about their social values and how they value their employees. Companies only want employees that improve their profit figures.

You can't get it in business as well because your client is your boss and you'd do what they want or you'd run out of business.

You can only follow passion when you have so much you don't need to rely on anyone ever again. And how do you do that?

Make as much money as you can right from yesterday. The earlier you hit your monetary value where you can't go broke again, the better for you. Everyone has their idea of this sum but for me it's a million USD.

If you earn 10% of $1.2m every year by stuffing your money in a hedge fund or something, you can live comfortably anywhere in the world on a salary of $10,000 per month doing absolutely nothing but following your passion.

This is very profound, I'm glad Nairalanders are thinking this way. My idea of a lump sum is half of the amount of you quoted in $, I'll just stash it somewhere & earn 10% yearly, I am good to go for the next 20 years.

Live a very decent & non-extravagant life, drive Toyotas & chill.

Maynman:

Paying rents won't make you happy.

“ Following one’s passion” to the detriment of financial freedom is akin to eloping With a poor lover, it always ends the same

tosinhtml:


For freelance, focus on front-end web development, using basic core Javascript, React and PHP. Avoid all those other shiny new frameworks, they are for full-time roles majorly.

Then WordPress, Converting PSD to HTML, Chrome extensions, Salesforce etc.

Thanks boss.🤲

Vifx:

“ Following one’s passion” to the detriment of financial freedom is akin to eloping With a poor lover, it always ends the same

And eloping with a rich man that you don't love, how does that end? More miserable!

"Chasing financial freedom" is like a donkey been teased with carrots, you'll keep WORKING for it and never get it, well maybe after 30/40 years sha

Na Belle go tell u😂