A Dream Job Is…

Andrew Musholt
2 min readDec 13, 2019

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Here is the thing. Everyone thinks they want a ‘dream job’. Kids will spend thousands of dollars for a college degree because they “want to get a good job”, but if you ask those same kids on the day of graduation “So what now?” almost none of them will know.

In other words, they have just put themselves into a MASSIVE amount of debt, including 4 years of their life, to get a ‘good job’, but don’t even know what job that is.

Now most people will, of course, blame the system. That is almost to be expected these days. They will ask “How was I supposed to know what I wanted to do at age 18?” The hard truth is, no one said you had to…..but yet, here you are.

Here is another hard truth: no one, not even society, owes you a thing for trying. In other words, saying that you “had the best intentions” are not very meaningful in the business world. Unfortunately, the best intentions are merely the bottom expectation for most jobs, if that! There have been plenty of times in my personal life where the best intentions have gotten me nowhere but the starting gate. Other times, it has even set me back (being misguided) and costing me time and money.

Okay, enough of the “life is hard” speechifying. The point I’m trying to make is that life is not accommodating for people that don’t know what they want. How do you expect to be provided something when you don’t even know what that something is? You have to know what you are passionate about….otherwise there is no “dream job.”

At the end of the day, no one can figure out what you want better than you. And once you figure it out, put in some work, make some sacrifices, and try HARD. Lo and behold, some company, somewhere, will be more than happy to accommodate your passion, and you will have a dream job. Getting paid for what you love. That is what a dream job is.

You have to know what success looks like in order for you to find it.

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Andrew Musholt
Andrew Musholt

Written by Andrew Musholt

Full-time web developer, part-time business owner.

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