Friday espresso: What If You Hate Doing It But Love The Results? Debunking Working Moms (or, Employee) Myths
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What If You Hate Doing It But Love The Results? Debunking Working Moms (or, Employee) Myths
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We’ve all heard it before: “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” It sounds beautiful, but for many, it feels far from reality. The truth is, even the most meaningful work comes with struggles, challenges, and tasks we don’t enjoy. But here’s the empowering part: career fulfillment doesn’t only come from passion, it comes from purpose, resilience, and growth.
If you’ve ever felt weighed down by the pressure to “find your passion,” you’re not alone. Career fulfillment can be built in powerful ways that go beyond passion. Let’s break it down:
WHY The Passion Myth Holds Us Back
Passion is powerful, but relying on it as the sole driver of your career can create pressure and disappointment.
Think of it this way: passion should support you, not consume you.
When we shift from asking, “Do I love every moment of this?” to “Am I growing, contributing, and aligning with what matters?”, we give ourselves permission to build a career that’s realistic, sustainable, and deeply meaningful.
WHAT Really Fuels Career Fulfillment
✨Purpose: Fulfillment comes when your work connects to something greater than yourself. It’s about knowing that what you do adds value, whether to people, communities, or future opportunities. When you align your daily efforts with your values, even routine tasks take on new meaning.
📈 Growth: Passion often follows progress. The more you stretch yourself, build new skills, and take on challenges, the more confidence and motivation you gain. Growth turns work from something you “have to do” into something that fuels your future potential.
🔄 Transferable Skills: Every role, no matter how different, teaches you something useful for the next. Communication, leadership, problem-solving. These skills move with you across industries and even into your personal life. The more you recognize and apply them, the more adaptable and empowered you become.
HOW to Build a Fulfilling Career (Without Forcing Passion)
💡 Reframe Success Beyond Passion. Fulfillment isn’t about loving every task, but about recognizing the bigger picture. Ask yourself: How does my work shape others? How does it shape me? Meaning grows when you see the ripple effect of your efforts, not just the moment-to-moment tasks.
🌱 Embrace Change as Growth. Every transition brings uncertainty, but it’s also where resilience is built. Instead of fearing change, treat it as a training ground. Challenges become lessons, and lessons become stepping stones to new strengths you didn’t know you had.
🔥 Align Passion With Purpose. Passion fades without direction, but purpose sustains. When you anchor your skills to impact like serving people, solving problems, and creating value, your motivation lasts longer than fleeting excitement.
The road to career fulfillment is never a straight line. It’s full of trials, growth, and unexpected turns, but that’s what makes it powerful. You don’t need to be madly in love with your work every single day, you just need to love the person you’re becoming through it.
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