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# What is a Compelling Career Anyway?
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/202301051907/
- Published: 2023-01-27T01:12:06.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-28T09:17:11.000Z
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: deep-life

> Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion. ([Location 295](https://readwise.io/to%5Fkindle?action=open&asin=B0076DDBJ6&location=295&ref=bramadams.dev))

What is a compelling career, anyway?

IMO, a good career isn't fully replicable or fully automatable to the point that *anyone* could be hired.

**Working**[\[1\]](#fn1) artists fit this bill, because they found a way to create something and then turn it into a profitable medium of their own volition. Artists also usually get people to say "I really like your work! It helped me in a non quantifiable way!"

Scientists do this as well by prodding at the edges of reality with hypotheses and seeing what creativity can create within that realm.

So I guess in some a compelling career is one that is creative while as well being attuned to reality.

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people who make money for their craft [↩︎](#fnref1)