So, from a very young age you get asked: ‘what do you want to do when you grow up? What kind of job would you like?’, which to me always felt like my job should be my number one priority. You focus your entire school period on getting the right education and all in order to land the job you want.

The problem is, some people don’t know what they want. Some people change interests over the years. Some people don’t feel the need to have one type of job for the rest of their lives.

Lately I’m stuck in a debate with myself. All my life I wanted to help people and to build a better society. Naturally, with the kind of indoctrination I had, I started looking for this in a job. But now with my party and volunteer work, I get to help a lot of people and oftentimes in really effective ways. I’m taking on a hard study right now and I don’t know if I want to continue. I could also just work and keep doing what I do with the party and volunteering. It would also allow me to have more free time in the next couple of years, which I wouldn’t mind at all.

This brought me to an internal question: why do I see a job as the only way to have a meaningful life? Why not find a job I could do, get money and have a more meaningful life outside of my job? But I haven’t yet found an answer to my question unfortunately.

How do you guys see my problem? Do you think a job is really important in having a meaningful life?