Should I Take a Job I'm Not Passionate About?

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.
0:06.7	Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Dr. John Belloni.
0:11.3	Eric is with us in Tucson, Arizona. Hi, Eric. How are you?
0:15.7	Hi, Dave. Thanks for taking my call. I greatly appreciate it.
0:18.4	Sure. What's up? My wife, Brianna, is here to you. Hey, Dave.
0:22.6	Hey. Here's the scenario. We moved to Tucson a year ago. We both left our jobs for me to take a position
0:29.6	here in college athletics, and my wife accepted a position with a non-profit Christian organization
0:34.9	as a local ministry missionary with a two-year commitment here in Tucson.
0:40.1	And here we are a year later, my position was just eliminated due to COVID, and we are left with
0:45.6	paying off $74,900 in student loans. We had $115,000 a year and a half ago. And because of our
0:53.7	two-year commitment here in Tucson,
0:55.6	I'm unable to pursue my passion in college athletics at this time. So my question is,
1:00.1	in order to pay off these student loans, do I risk looking for a job that I may not be passionate
1:05.7	about that pays well, or do I pursue a job that I'm more passionate about that may not pay as well?
1:13.1	How about picking an option that doesn't suck?
1:17.4	Yeah.
1:17.6	How about find one that pays well that you're passionate about?
1:20.4	Why is that off the table?
1:23.0	It's not.
1:24.0	Okay, good.
1:25.8	Yeah, you've hemmed yourself in a corner, man.
1:28.2	You dreamed all this up where it's all going bad for you.
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