{"id":11460,"date":"2021-08-16T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:57:18","slug":"you-can-love-what-you-do-for-a-living-but-still-think-it-feels-like-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/you-can-love-what-you-do-for-a-living-but-still-think-it-feels-like-work\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Love What You Do for a Living, But Still Think It Feels Like Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Kat Boogaard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do what you love, and you\u2019ll never work another day in your life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we\u2019ve all heard that sentiment countless times. We repeat it to recent graduates like it\u2019s the only career advice<\/a> they\u2019ll ever need. We print it on motivational posters, bumper stickers, and encouraging note cards. We incorporate it into commencement addresses. Heck, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s even embroidered on the occasional throw pillow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, does this treasured piece of advice even ring true? Will finding a career that you\u2019re wildly passionate about make your entire life feel like one big tropical vacation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I don\u2019t think so. In fact, I think it\u2019s perfectly normal to love your job and simultaneously recognize the fact that it\u2019s hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Kat Boogaard Do what you love, and you\u2019ll never work another day in your life. Yes, we\u2019ve all heard that sentiment countless times. We repeat it to recent graduates like it\u2019s the only career advice they\u2019ll ever need. We print it on motivational posters, bumper stickers, and encouraging note cards. We incorporate it into commencement addresses.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[935],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","category-uncategorized","tag-job-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2016\/03\/The-Muse-logo.png?fit=203%2C118&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-2YQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}