The Myth of the "Dream Job" and Expanding Your Earning Potential

The Money with Katie Show

Money with Katie

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lauren from Career Contessa joins me this week for a revelatory conversation about the myth of the elusive “dream job.” Ironically, it took getting my dream job to realize it’s…still a job. Wait a second, why does this still feel like work sometimes? So why does acknowledging this myth and moving past it matter? Because the illusion that there’s a “dream job” out there for you (the career version of a soulmate) leads to both expectation hangovers and disappointment when—surprise!—even a job you really like comes with downsides. This episode is an exploration of the idea that maybe the grass isn’t always greener, and the things that make a job “good” are often overlooked in our misguided pursuit of a job that elicits “passion.” That said, we also discuss the importance of liking what you do (to a healthy extent) and the positive financial outcomes that enjoying your work can bring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back rich girls and guys to the Money with Katie Show.
0:10.0	Today we're going to talk about something that it seems to me impacts just about every
0:15.0	working adult's life satisfaction.
0:17.6	And that is liking what you do for work, finding fulfillment or enjoyment or just general
0:24.0	satisfaction from what you do.
0:33.2	I think it's funny though because if you trace this question back more broadly to the first
0:38.5	question you were probably asked as a little kid, hey what do you want to be when you grow
0:43.1	up?
0:44.1	It brings to mind some pretty hilarious and off-base, frankly, inclinations for me personally.
0:51.5	For example, when I was a kid, I loved animals which made child Katie think that meant
0:56.1	she should be a veterinarian.
0:58.0	It makes sense, right?
0:59.0	You like animals so you should totally enjoy slicing them open for the next 40 years.
1:04.1	Unsurprisingly, that was wrong.
1:06.8	Same with high school Katie who was so preoccupied with her own bout of cystic acne and she was
1:12.8	so close with her dermatologist that she decided she too wanted to be a dermatologist.
1:17.9	But then high school Katie quickly gave up on that dream when she learned that it took
1:21.7	four years of college and another eight years of medical school residency and specialty
1:27.7	to achieve.
1:29.0	Twelve years of work just to look at acne, skin cancer and perform mole removals was
1:33.4	not interesting to me at 18.
1:35.9	But when I think back really far, when I think back to what the kid version of me liked to
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