Name: How To Discover Your Work Passions And Hatreds
Uploaded: 2022-03-23
Duration: 2 min 35 s
Description: Regularly take time to reflect on how much you enjoy your work, especially when you're earlier-in-career

How To Discover Your Work Passions And Hatreds

Which of the following should you do to discover your work passion?

What of these is a legitimate, strong sign that something is a work passion for you?

- *Regularly take time to reflect on how much you enjoy your work, especially when you're earlier-in-career*.
- Write down everything you do. Here are some examples of common things software engineers do:
  - Writing code
  - Reviewing code
  - Meetings
  - Working with JIRA
  - Talking with cross-functional stakeholders
  - Fixing bugs
- Split all the items into 3 buckets:
  - Things you genuinely enjoy: Tasks/behaviors you are excited to do and can lose track of time doing them.
  - Neutral: Things you can do a good amount of, but in the end, you do it for work.
  - Chores: You *only* do it for work, and you actively try to minimize doing these as much as possible.
- From the top bucket (enjoyment bucket), try to craft your work life around that.

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Regularly take time to reflect on how much you enjoy your work, especially when you're earlier-in-career

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