Vocation · Purpose · Life Design · 2026
How to Find Work That Feels Like Yours
Most people oscillate between tolerating their work and romanticising the fantasy of loving it. Neither position is particularly useful. This is a more honest framework for finding work that is genuinely yours — not perfect, not always exciting, but meaningfully and specifically aligned with who you actually are.
The instruction to “follow your passion” has probably derailed more people than it has helped. Not because passion is irrelevant — it is not — but because it presents the problem backwards. It suggests that passion is the starting point: that somewhere inside you is a pre-formed, identifiable passion waiting to be located, and that once found, it will point clearly toward the work you are meant to do.
