That Tuesday morning call from my old boss got me thinking

I was working as an accountant for about 8 years before I finally admitted I hated it. Last Tuesday my old boss called me out of the blue to offer me a job at a bigger firm with a $15,000 raise. I sat there listening to him talk about spreadsheets and quarterly reports and felt this heavy pit in my stomach. That same week I had been doodling garden layouts during my lunch break every single day. I realized I was more excited about planting tomatoes than I ever was about balancing ledgers. So I turned down the raise and enrolled in a part-time landscaping certificate program instead. Has anyone else turned down good money just to chase something that actually makes you happy?

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riley8604d ago

Used to be the type of person who thought passion was overrated compared to a steady paycheck. Your post honestly flipped a switch for me, I never thought about it like that before.

sethtorres4d ago

Whoa wait hold on, the post that changed your mind was about passion? For real? lmao I thought you were gonna say something about budgeting or like a career change hack or something. That's wild dude, like a whole internet post just rewired your brain like that. Honestly kinda cool how sometimes you read something and it just hits different than you expected.