Comment by paulryanrogers
5 days ago
One of many platitudes that kept me in working conditions and religion which were detrimental to my career and mental health.
Maybe it's useful to some who are in objectively good circumstances which they haven't learned to appreciate. I'd still advocate for getting other perspectives from trustworthy folks about ones specific situation.
And not taking advice from billionaires who think their fruity diet will cure their cancer.
to play devils advocate, you can try to “love what you do” while continuing to better your circumstances. No?
The quote doesn’t suggest “the job/career you have now is perfect for you, ignore all red flags”.
The advice is reductive and wide open for interpretation. Also rich coming from a lucky sociopath who cheated even his closest coworker for (relative) pennies.
i try not to judge people holistically when listening to them give advice in a very narrow area, like work in this case. We all have faults, some more than others obviously.
Example: a rapist could be an EXCELLENT plumber as his occupation. One has nothing to do with the other. Pretending like they have no useful plumbing advice to give just makes one look silly.
Steve jobs was a shit human being. But i won’t sit here and pretend he wasn’t a visionary product person, or a person that thought deeply about work, our relation with technology, etc.
For what it’s worth I agree it’s reductive. Most 1-2 sentence life advice is…so not too surprising. :)
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