Comment by munificent

I think this advice works a lot better if you interpret with finer granularity than either "job is my ideal passion" or "job is soul-crushing suffering purely for economic gain".

Very few people get to take the thing they would do completely for free and make money off of it. At the same time, very few people have a job where every single aspect of the work is miserable toil that brings them no joy.

Work is complex and there is a continuum of jobs that have more or less aspects that resonate with you. I think better advice is to seek jobs that let you bring more of your joys to bear while acknowledging that no job will be paid fun. And when in a specific job, try to find the aspects of it that you love and make the most of those to the degree that you're able.

We have a much richer ability to navigate our careers than simply treating any job as all bad or all good.