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Finding Success By Doing What You Love?
Is that really the best advice?
There are countless hundreds of thousands of self-help articles out there, almost all of which state that to find success and wealth one must be doing what one loves.
Well, yesterday I wrote about My Love of Washing Dishes. While that might make me a weirdo, it happens to be true. I truly love washing dishes (by hand). It brings me great joy.
So does that mean that in order to find success and wealth I need to apply for a dish washing job at some local restaurant and work my way up the ladder of the dish washing profession? I don’t think so.
First of all, I don’t think there is a ladder in that profession. It’s a bottom-rung job with no hierarchy. I have never heard of anyone getting fabulously wealthy and successful washing dishes. There may have been some people who started out washing dishes and then became successful after they moved beyond that but they did not get wealthy continuing to wash dishes.
I have imagined what it would be like to get a job as a dish washer. I’ve pictured myself with a kitchen apron on standing in front of a large industrial stainless steel sink washing dishes for eight hours a day, five days a week.
