"Follow your passion" can be a valuable outlook on life. The overly broad interpretation of that is what many people find confusing.
I think it's fair to say that most engineers have a passion for coding/engineering. Without it spending most of one's waking hours coding would be absolutely unsustainable. Finding passion in this context is about finding the right niche for your work, not switching your career to something else you would (potentially) enjoy, like playing video games. We need to acknowledge that not every hobby or interest is that mythical passion we should view as a career opportunity.
Being an engineer doesn't define one's work: spending 2 years of your life on building a new ads format at Meta is technically the same profession as e.g. developing better models for predicting climate change, but the passion factor will be different for different people.
An attainable goal for most people is: a job reasonably well suited to your talents, which you usually don't mind doing, and which pays reasonably well.
Actually having a passion for it -- well, that's a would-be-nice. Not a gotta-have.
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"Follow your passion" can be a valuable outlook on life. The overly broad interpretation of that is what many people find confusing.
I think it's fair to say that most engineers have a passion for coding/engineering. Without it spending most of one's waking hours coding would be absolutely unsustainable. Finding passion in this context is about finding the right niche for your work, not switching your career to something else you would (potentially) enjoy, like playing video games. We need to acknowledge that not every hobby or interest is that mythical passion we should view as a career opportunity.
Being an engineer doesn't define one's work: spending 2 years of your life on building a new ads format at Meta is technically the same profession as e.g. developing better models for predicting climate change, but the passion factor will be different for different people.
An attainable goal for most people is: a job reasonably well suited to your talents, which you usually don't mind doing, and which pays reasonably well.
Actually having a passion for it -- well, that's a would-be-nice. Not a gotta-have.