“You have to follow your heart and know that you can do whatever you want in life,” Nels, a free-lance graphic designer tells me. “I’m trying to convince my kids that you don’t have to pick a job… You can create a life.”
Nels loves his work, but he is open to change. When I ask him what his professional goals are, he answers, “I don’t know what’s next. I could end up in another completely different industry. Whatever I end up in next, if there’s a next, it’s going to be with the same passion.”
Nels believes that he has power over his career path, freedom in an undetermined future, and clarity in prioritizing work that he loves. These beliefs represent an ideology of work that I’ve coined the passion paradigm.
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