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4 Reasons to Stop Searching for the “Dream” Job And Enjoy A Life Outside of Work
When my ex broke up with me because, in his words:
“You don’t have your career figured.”
It crushed me.
According to him, I was failing at life because I hadn’t found my dream job or “passion” that I wanted to do until the early hours of the morning. Instead, I wanted to be sleeping in the early hours of the morning. According to him, this was problematic and indicated a lack of passion, drive, goals and determination which resulted in him blindsiding me with a traumatic breakup.
I felt like a major failure, immediately after the breakup. Overnight I lost my partner and I briefly believed his assessment of my life. I believed that I was failing because I had not found my dream job. Whatever the “dream” job is?
Does it even matter?
Apparently, to some people, it does. In the months after the breakup, I tried to make sense of his harsh and abrupt exit out and assessment of my life:
Was I bad partner or failing at life because I don’t identify my job as my ulitmate passion and neither do I…