Why You Will Never Have a Great Career - Jordan Peterson
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Hate when interviewers ask "Why did you chose us?"
I'm trying to survive in this cruel world and I believe you can help me.
❤
"Well, I have bills to pay!"
Imagine if we could all just be that honest!
@@dansimmons21 so being a negative sour faced dude is being honest to you....remember the world was ok before all these self help guru's came around to make money off lost people
@@alexandrasantos4648"I got mouths to feed"
This is why i hate jobs applications and job interviews. They always assume you want a career in whatever field their job is in. And they always assume you REALLY want that job for some reason other than money. I really want to just tell them that I don’t want the job they are offering, I just want a job so i can eat and pay my bills.
So true.
I would hire you if I owned a company because honesty often reveals character and hard work. A manager rarely says you are here to work, get paid, and pay your bills, so let's do it. Only sales managers say that to their sales dept, but then they hold back all bonuses raise,s and promotions, so I don't work in sales unless the base pays enough to compensate for the commission they won't give me that I earned because they steal hours and deliver from payroll. Take admin access to payroll and schedule away from managers and save the company. Let an AI bot do it instead, and everyone will get paid. If not, then own a business because jobs are for the birds under managerial slavery.
Right?! "Why do u want this job?" Is an awful question to ask in an interview. Can't u see the light dying in my eyes?
Omg yes
Depends on the job. If you're hiring for your engineering firm, then sure, ask the question "why do you want to work for us." If you're the manager of a frozen yogurt joint hiring some teenager, then that question is pointless.
I agree. I was in my mid 30's when I discovered that I indeed had a career, but what I wanted was a job, and a life outside of my career. Work to live, not live to work.
It simply depends on which side of the food chain you desire.
Can I chime in..? Sounds like you really just want income to survive and live as you desire.
Think of it like that.
FORGET THAT. I LIVE TO WORK. *I'M A WORKAHOLIC* and now I'm free from living paycheck to paycheck.
@@mcgusto82 it’s been my goal for the longest time. Been working on building and delegating my business. To get paid good and have the time freedom and resources to live comfortably and enjoy all the time I have with my family and friends.
@@billbradleymusic 8
Hobbies is what defines you. If you do your Hobbies well...you are already a competent man in real Life.
what’s a person with no hobbies
What I love hobbies is just to play games with my own perspective and goals. Unfortunately it's not a job.
@@joshuacacho1010Same but i say the n word
Yes, but your job needs to be at least something you gain some kind of satisfaction in doing because it also defines you in a small way.
@@cheefqueef6494lmao
Just remember: there's a reason why a job pays a lot and or has a lot of demand. Dangerous, time consuming, travel heavy, high education needed, etc.
yes there is always a catch
@@heavenintimacyThey don't call it "golden handcuffs" for nothing.
thats a good example, looking at science related jobs like Resarchers or Scientist where there is a good amount of Meaning behind that, but requires a very High level of education, At least Master's/PhD
"Why do you want this job?"
.....M.O.N.E.Y
why else would I show up to this place I don't want to be in for?.
If only honesty was a thing in job hunting.
Well yo can be honest I usually am in my interviews I'm usually say something like this when asked why do i want to work for that company "well I have experience in this field and I just need a job that pays a decent amount so I can pay my bills"
To be honest, I like going to work, see colleagues, learn stuff etc. Just not 60 hours a week which is why I don’t do that.
😂 One job I applied for and hadn’t done the 100-questions-prep for, I was asked a rather obvious question “why do you want to be a manager”. I was taken aback, answered, laughing “so I can delegate all the tasks I don’t like”.
The guy interviewing me also had to laugh “not the answer I expected, but the most honest answer I got these past 2 days”.
There were 10 vacancies, 2500 applicants, I got the job (after a series of interviews & assessments).
To be honest, I like going to work, see colleagues, learn stuff etc. Just not 60 hours a week which is why I don’t do that.
😂 One job I applied for and hadn’t done the 100-questions-prep for, I was asked a rather obvious question “why do you want to be a manager”. I was taken aback, answered, laughing “so I can delegate all the tasks I don’t like”.
The guy interviewing me also had to laugh “not the answer I expected, but the most honest answer I got these past 2 days”.
There were 10 vacancies, 2500 applicants, I got the job (after a series of interviews & assessments).
If you want money you should have been a bank robber, same thing to work at wallstreet.
@@JustADadsValorantAcademyhow does it play out
... “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”
Wait i heard that somewhere...
Hopefully they stay quiet
@@Rctdcttecededtef until they loose everything in their life, then decide they become homicidal.
@@geddon436 I guess that *could* happen..
Thoreau
Why don’t high schoolers get this lesson? Maybe we wouldn’t have so many people who owe insurmountable student loans.
It isn't profitable
Because it ruins narratives taught by generations during different times.
@Paul Ridgeway Truth. Modern education is nothing more than an indoctrination into the system. Makes economic slave robots, not free thinkers.
@@mcgusto82 Someone sees it
People have the loans because 1) they choose to take them, and 2) banks with government allow people to take the loans despite not qualifying for them.
That way you get wage-slaves. 🌠
I don’t remember ever wanting a career. Even now I don’t want a career. I want a job that pays as much as possible for as little effort as possible. My passion is reading books, writing, and walking in the woods and visiting new places, meeting new people. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. So I’ve worked really hard to progress in an industry I don’t particularly feel excited about but has now rewarded me with being very good at it and being able to “demand” things that employers will actually give me. So now I work a part time home office job and I get paid very well compared to the effort I put in (it’s taken a lot of years hard effort to be in a position where I can do the thing standing on my head). The people are nice, the job’s easy, I hang out with my dog in my office until the bell goes at 4pm and then the rest is mine. And this is fine for me. It’s enough.
May I know what job you're doing
If you have a passion for writing why don't you become a writer?
What is your profession?
That's a good deal. I do the same. I hustle hard at my job and be the very best. But any other time after that is mine to enjoy.
Don't you have Dragonborns to be teaching/guiding? 😄
You don't have to find significant purpose in your job to enjoy it. I'm in the military (corpsman), the "fulfillment" I found was more related to the relationships I formed with the people around me, not the job itself, which is extremely repetitive and not like what you see in Hollywood.
I found pleasure in basic and simple jobs too. But don't put too much weight on it, nurture the other parts of you (social life, romance, hobbies, religion, etc) to find your whole purpose, don't just rely on your career, that's one puzzle piece.
Thanks doc ;)
Good on ya Doc.
Thanks boys
Give my best is really good way to feel good, cuz doing that, i'm working for God .
Go FMF side, the trauma or corpsman had endured in that one deployment made us ALL want EAS.
Thanks, Obama
This guy nails it. Most people place too much emphasis on their jobs in their lives. Let's put it this way, when you're on your deathbed you're not going to think about how good you were at your job or career. Work to live, not live to work.
People put emphasis on their jobs because it’s pretty much all they do lol.
Wake up, work, eat dinner and relax for a hours, sleep, wake up, work… etc. and weekends off.
Work is a huge part of life, so of course people will put emphasis on it.
@@SuperYtc1you listed a cycle of what most peoples days are. Yet only said that’s why ppl put emphasis on their Job. That’s ONE out of the 4 things in that cycle. Why not emphasis on them all. Emphasis on SLEEP, emphasis on RELAXING, emphasis on EATING etc. everything we do on a daily basis can be mundane or it can be special and have meaning to us. That’s the goal to a happy life.
@@Southforthewinter Because not all of those 4 things are equally weighted. More weighting is spent on work, and is required, to live.
@@SuperYtc1 I think you misunderstood me. We choose how much weight we put on things. But at the end it’s time you give to a company for currency. Most ppl do 8 hrs a day. That’s the average work day. We need to work, fair enough, but after those 8 hrs we still have 16 hrs of our day. Where we can put 8 of them into resting and the other into leisure or passions and hobbies or friends etc. it’s called work life balance lol I’m sure you’ve heard of it.
@@Southforthewinter Except we don't choose. We are forced to put a lot of weighting into work just to simply live.
I’m extreme blessed when I was 17 I would just hang out at the local music store I’m 28 now and get literally paid to do that . A little more complicated now but I still can’t believe I’m so blessed to work at a music store . Someday I will be teaching as well as doing sales and customer service .
Dang you're happy😂, be strong buddy!
You want a job with maximum pay with minimal output so that you can spend your free time on hobbies and with family.
Nicely said!
Your employer wants the opposite of you
@@parapacem7473 no kidding
In a nutshell.
That's Nesara/Gesara
Find peace at home.
I worked in broadcasting for a few years thinking this is where I can start my career. After 3 years of 80 hours a week, I realized I would rather be less "successful" and more happy.
Now I make half of what I used to, but I have time to actually live my life.
I'm with you on this. I stopped working full time because I'm aways exhausted and wondering why I'm slaving away . I buy a lot of shit I don't need. Lol. Now that I'm working half the time, earning half the money, I spend way less and I'm way happier. I get to spend more time in the house that I'm paying for and yes definitely peace at home! ;)
@@ellaroseblissinstead of buying junk you should have been investing.
As a med student, I can assure you that 60 hour work weeks are what's considered cushy hours. 80 hours are the norm for some surgeons and many residents. It's why a lot of younger doctors are trying to unionize to fight for better working conditions for doctors. We are simply not paid or treated well enough for the amount of difficulty it takes to become a doctor.
Doctors aren't treated or paid well enough? I don't mean to assume anything, but from my perspective American doctors make A LOT compared to where I live. Especially surgeons. I have no idea what you are complaining about when you say you don't get paid enough. Residents may not, but surgeons definitely do.
@@user-gv5hm8po6b Because you, like most of the hoi polloi, have no idea how medical training in the US works. Compared to Europe our schooling is generally longer, more expensive, significantly more competitive, and entails far more abuse on the actual job. There are certainly exceptions, but our European counterparts enjoy laxer hours, laxer standards, and a healthcare system that doesn't try to squeeze out every penny from doctors and patients.
Also, that high pay you're talking about for surgeons is a joke. Surgery residencies last anywhere from 5-7+ years. That's 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school and that residency number only to be in a position where you typically make 400-600k on average. You're better off going into fields like law, finance, banking, or computer science for better income, and without the immense stress and startup cost.
@@smellypatel5272 what kind of surgeon makes only around 500k per yr? asking genuinely. that seems on the low end from what ive heard
@@shellyh3014 General surgeons, obstetric OBGYN, some orthopods, opthalmologists, the list goes on
@@smellypatel5272 thanks for you reply. what state do you live in?
Lies we were told growing up:
You will get a career
You can be ANYTHING you want to be when you grow up
Be nice and kind to others and you will get the same in return
You were the most beautiful baby in the world.
If you need help just ask.
It wasnt lies, you just didnt push yourself to it
@@robyrandom1148 your response only makes sense for point #1. So I guess if a child is born with dwarfism you can tell him he can be the mvp player on an NBA team when he grows up. Or tells child born with a learning disability that she’ll be President. Or a tell a child with a facial deformity that they’ll be the next supermodel. No we CANT be ANYTHING we want to be. Talent and passion are 2 different things. I’m a therapist cuz I’m pretty good at it. I love boxing. Don’t mean I was born to be welterweight champion just bc I like it.
@@robyrandom1148 You need a very low iq to use exception to argue against the validity of a rule that applies to the majority.
Most people will NOT have a career. If you are not willing to go to work for free just for the pleasure of the activity (then you have a JOB)
@@robertmatos4553 umm with in reason of course. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. Social media made it so you can literally be whatever you want. Donald trump became the president, there’s ppl with with all sorts of physical problems who became super models. Create an audience, and you can pretty much be what you want
you won't "get" a career but you can build one. but what Jordan's talking about, it takes a lot out of you to really build a career. You can be a doctor or an engineer and just have it be a "job." people who do that and really make it a career arc (and a successful one at that) are fewer and further between than we realize. rest of your points check out though.
All humans really wanna do is eat, have fun, work comfortable hours in their comfortable job, and sleep. That’s really all we desired but we have to work 2 jobs or a quality job just to keep a head above water. That’s our reality lol
You're damn straight on this. Jobs working 60 plus hours just to barely survive and hate being at that job. Nope. I work 24 hours a week at a job I enjoy and live a super minimalist lifestyle. I'm happy now. 😊
@@charcoalelement6276whats your job if you don't mind me asking?
What you do? @@charcoalelement6276
Oh boy! He shatters perceptions of 'my' reality unlike anyone!
Not everything he says is truth though, he even says that himself
Almost everything he says is completely designed to trick you into worshipping him as most of his followers tend to
@@schnoz2372 I am interested in the 'completely designed to trick you' manual. Any leads?
@@sumedhyadav6572 I’m interested as well, but tbh this guy is probably just a hater.
@@schnoz2372 ye I wanna hear pls speak 🌝
I'm 33 and struggling with this reality. Put all my eggs in a basket for a career until I switched to a job in another unrelated field. Now I lack passion in this field and having a second crisis. I feel kinda dumb for struggling in such a common topic.
I'm 28 almost 29, you're not alone
Don’t waste time wandering and regretting past decisions. Get to where you want
I’m 46 and same boat
Why did you switch?
What career and what job did you switch into? I am curious as to how is it you lost interest...was the job you gambled for really a passion of yours?
I became a lead singer for Cirque du Soleil years ago, and this could not be more accurate.
Worked my ass off to get there my entire life. Did not have time to see friends from school really, and didn’t party in my teenage years, which I didnt mind, because I was very focus and disciplined.
I cannot even start to tell you how much Ive sacrificed indeed, it has been difficult, competitive and stressful at times ITS CRAZY to do that, I’ve often thought. I thought of quitting so many times just cause its been too much sometimes, the travelling every week, not seeing my close ones, missing almost all the important events in there lives. I cried so many times and burned out myself twice. I’ve even done shows with broken bones.
But somehow. I’VE NEVER FELT LIKE IT WAS A JOB, and SACRIFICES DIDNT FEEL AS BAD as they were because I was PASSIONATE about it. I just feel like Im doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing! Im good at it and know it so well.
I had to find a job during the two years pandemic. And you know what happened?
Turned out… as much as I woukd really want to be with my family all year long and just have a quiet job.. It made me miserable! Having a job got me depressed and sick. At the end of two years… I knew I wouldnt be able to keep having a job. Because I didnt feel accomplished, i didnt feel particularly great at it, I wasnt able to perform well, cause I just didnt have the interest for it. It clearly wasn’t my calling.
I’m so proud of myself and especially greatful for everything I’ve accomplished career wise so far.
But I’m also 37 years old now. And I haven’t had the chance to have any long term relationships. Travelling made it difficult to build something with someone. To have a strong and solid foundation, while I always had to go!
I’m the eldest of three girls. Im the big sister and always loved taking care of everyone. I’ve also always wanted to have kids, since I was a teenager. We all thought I would have been the first to marry, settle down and have kids and that’s it.
The weirdest part is that despite the fact that I started doing it very young, I was always doing it as a hobby, for FUN! I could have never guessed in a million years at the time that I would end up singing for a living for real!
Because I didnt have to think about it as “maybe” a career before I was 21 and had to decide what to study in college.
And even then - choosing to study music and give a shot at a career as a singer, was a bold move. I come from a very small village and no one did that professionally in my family. So I had no expections! No idea of anything hahaha.
So, I totally relate to what he is saying.
You are incredible. God bless you.
I think you could transition into another music related position and also you should not be alone and should have a relationship. I started having serious health problems when I was 21 and never had a relationship and I'm a little older than you and I'm alone. It is best to find somebody around age 23 to 26. My income situation is also not strong and it is hard to imagine how that would work.
@@MrApplewine I hear you. ❤️
what a testimony wow. appreciate it. I guess you could be the one to explain me what Kalimando is about lol.
Life with meaning - includes rich relationships with others ( unselfish love given) and finding one’s purpose or helping others find theirs
💯
What it's about.
What’s the point of having meaning?
@@sam.lipchutz Are you asking me or telling me something?
@@askseeknock7 I’m curious to see your perspective
I feel so tricked by the school system into going to college.
I never payed attention at school, I was the worst in 100 students, that’s probably why I succeeded outside of it.
Same. Everyone told me I HAD to do it or I'd never get a job..
@@xkimopye that’s awesome bro. Keep getting after it.
@@Rctdcttecededtefnd then there's me who's in the final year of med school, having no idea why tf I joined and no idea what I'm gonna do as a doctor, after I get through these exams.
@@thedarklord5129 be a doctor I guess
Found this kind of reassuring, oddly enough. Been working as a butcher for 5 years now (I'm 28) and have been deflated recently as I want an actual job I'm passionate about but just can't seem to find something that excites me. I'm a father of one with a 2nd on the way and my home life outside of work being very enjoyable is the only thing keeping me from trying something new. It's a stable job and the pay is more than enough for us to live quite comfortably, I'm not under overly much stress other than Christmas and I would work roughly 55 hours per week including travel. Reading through some of these comments and my heart goes out to all the doctors/lawyers under immense pressure. Maybe I should just accept the fact that not everybody in life can work in a role they value/enjoy
Start paying into your retirement fund now in your twenties. With 12 percent annual returns it should be massive by the time you are in your fifties. Time and compounding returns are the most likely path to success. And you have plenty of time.
I didn't need this guy to tell me that I'm gonna be a destitute wage slave for the rest of my life. I can just look though the hole where my window was to figure that out.
The sheer entitlement of calling "wage slavary" the act of providing food clothing and a roof for yourself is mind blowing.
Who is supposed to work for your lazy as ??? Your parents???
Fr tho
Yeah. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But supposedly we live in the best time to be alive? Keep selling that dream I guess.
Is not just a guy is an expert
@@alexisea8874 And?
I totally agree with everything he said. My Niece became a lawyer and within the FIRST year she QUIT!!! She said she could see how easy it would be to go down the rabbit whole of putting life aside in order to maintain this crazy profession. She's now a stay at home Mom.raising her three sons 🤗❤
Good thing she escaped.i hope she finds her Kids as more fulfilling your her life.
thats great, except being a stay at home mom doesn't pay the bill 😭
@Zyrock her husband pays the bills for he too is a lawyer
@@teresafraser3049 ya but how many households % actually live off of One salary 😭
I did sixty hour work weeks doing night shift in a security office.
I was 19 when I started. When I came out, I had no idea who I was. I'm easily consumed, and for letting the beast take a bite all I had to show for it was money of which I had no desire to spend because I'd lost my interests.
If you can thrive in a work filled life, godspeed. I can't.
Please re find your interests, its not too late.
I love my career as a preschool teacher. I make shit pay, but I enjoy what I do and I do it well. I have followed some of the kids that have been in my classrooms through adulthood and it has been an honor being their first teacher.
You might love teaching but not able to find passionate jobs
Most work in medicore jobs. But I am happy you are happy sir kudos sir ❤
You are incredible! I always respect teachers who really love their job and do it for the kids. It’s so rare to see a teacher like you.
We all need to be more like you !
You can always tell whether a teacher is doing a job or a career
Those doing jobs are always frustrated, don't entertain doubts, or make the subject interesting for you.
Those who do it as a career are always passionate and we enjoy every moment of their lecture!
We need more people to have careers so there will be energy and excitement everywhere around.
I'm tired of those miserable job doers
I am a retired hairdresser . I had a career . I loved my job and I loved going to work everyday . It was not financially lucrative and I wish that it would of paid better but I was able to support myself and love what I did so no regrets .
I would assume it was stressful in the beginning
That's not a career, that's a hobby hun
@@brandon6231 really??? I guess U assume hair dressing is just washing hair with shampoo.
@@henduby anything women do gets called a hobby.
@NorthOfWindsor who you support as president tells me everything I need to know about your intelligence...or lack thereof
I'm part of that 2% I feel so lucky. I work at a winery in the napa Valley teaching about wine and that is my passion. I'm so privileged and am very blessed I've found something I would do even if it doesn't pay...I love this guy he's an inspiration
I'm part of the 98% working in tech in SF. I love visiting Napa - magical place. What winery do you work at?
That does not sound like a career in the sense meant here.
I have a career in psychology. I can agree that this is the most difficult job I’ve ever done in my life. And I enjoyed greatly
Why is it so difficult?
@@neoloanderson6676 it's not depending in what you go into, college is a breeze but the job market is really screwed, if you don't open up your own practice your options are very diverse but very few in actual well paid jobs
@@Sunrah Thanks for replying.
@@neoloanderson6676 I didn’t reply to you but someone else. It’s difficult because you have to treat other humans in a very high professional way. Not about market.
@@neoloanderson6676 There’s really cushy jobs like working in a private practice dealing with depressed rich people. Then there’s the really difficult jobs like working in psych wards. Some government mandated rehab centers can be tough too, and prisons. Burnout for these jobs is high, and pay is low.
Doc here…. 60 hr work week!!! Where do I sign? In all actuality… it’s more… more like 70-80.
Best advice I can give you…. Set your comfort bar as low as possible (women tend to drive the cost of this bar up)… then find a job or craft that allows you to make that necessary income but also maximizes your free time…. Then enjoy life.
The most peaceful time in my life was landscaping in the summers during college years.
You are correct ..
13/14 hour days with traffic on the way home is not how life should be .
Outsource your investing, as you don't have time for it. Replace some of your income with passive income from real estate. And escape.
Fortunately I work 40 hours a week in software development, so I've had time to learn.
@@KateLate____ I completely disagree…. That mind set is a trap… That’s the way to dig yourself deeper into the system. Less than 1% escape… The rest are subject to the same laws of market fluctuations,…poor leadership driving the stock market down… housing bubbles bursting…. Keep the bar low and enjoy life. … the Tesla… BMW…. Isn’t worth… Honda civics work just fine…. And if your a man, stay single.
@@jamesfrancesconi5441 who said anything about fancy cars. Sure you're a doctor?
@@KateLate____ whatever…. Have a nice day!
The greatest measures of our success is knowledge and the application of intelligence not wealth.
Wealth is the visible by-product of someone's success
A person can be successful at something and not be wealthy.
I would have to disagree here. The greatest measure of success is whether the steps someone took help them accomplish the goals they set for themselves. If your goal is spending a lot of time with your family, you will have had little to no success if you work every day, regardless of how good or bad your job is. If your goal is something other than knowledge and applying your intelligence then it wont matter how well you did those things. You wont consider yourself successful unless you accomplish the Personal goals you have
@@numericbin9983 It’s a visible byproduct not “the”.
Another example is being a game designer. Sounds like a dream job, right? Those people get overworked and stressed a lot.
Yea for nothing..stressfull of a sh*t work of a system and papers for the law's 🤒😷🤢🤮
I’m still grateful to them. They do a really good job most of the time
Needed this. I keep feeling like I'm a failure unless I get a career that I enjoy. But I feel like I'll suffer to do that, never be really happy, always be stressed. I feel like I need to choose between success and happiness. So hearing this is really nice, that success of a career is just a social lie, so why should I stress about it.
As a lawyer I'm beginning to realise fulfilling my career goals did not make my life meaningful. It was the chase that gave it meaning. Not the catch. So what do I do now? I have a family that I am thankful for but suddenly I'm not chasing any big goal anymore and that is truly terrifying. All my life I have been chasing goals ans now I'm just supposed to live? It may sound strange but for me this is an absolute existential crisis.
I think you put in words what I'm going through. Thanks.
I can understand that. Add a new goal to perfect, such as writing a book or starting a winery?❤️
How are you doing, brother? Is your wife supporting you?
Please, sir. We need an update
im in the exact same situation, but i'm much younger. It was about the chase in the military for me and now i'm out of that. Now there's no goal really anymore. Setting a goal is what i'm trying to do now so that i can legitimately move forward.
You can find fulfillment in jobs that aren’t exactly what you want to do. This is by appreciating your god given abilities to do different things beyond what you would think you can. You also have to negotiate with yourself on doing what you love, but it might not pay enough to live. Try to enjoy the journey while your working towards that desired career.
Beautiful advice
To me, a career profession is something that surrounds your whole life, it’s who you are, it’s more than just the role you fill for 40 hours a week. Most people like to think they’d have a career, until they realise how much of themselves and their lives they have to give up to obtain it, then they realise they’d actually rather have weekends off or be able to spend time doing things they enjoy, and I don’t blame them.
Is entrepreneurship considered a career?
As a restaurateur I heard “60 hour weeks” and thought “lucky bastards!”
@Abhiyanshu Chaudhary aren't doctors supposed to work 90-100 hour weeks for a time? Like you literally have to eat, sleep, and breathe the hospital
time is relative... 60hrs as a restaurateur vs 60hrs as a doctor.. are very different 60hrs Sources: Me, I’ve worked in both 😂
Oh, you poor thing. Yeah, dealing with life or death situations is really easy and not stressful at all. Working at a restaurant is the real deal, I get you. How dare they compare?
@Abhiyanshu Chaudhary never met a doctor who worked more than 40 hrs a week unless by their own choice after finishing residency.. what are you doing?
When my dad was a chef 60 hour weeks were slow. He be up prepping at 6 am and would come home till 11:30 pm and only got sundays off. Restaurants are hard work too
I fix washing machines in my garage and sit and eat popsicles in my back yard with my wife and dog.
This. This is awesome.
JOB = Just Over Broke
I have a job in UK. £2500 net a month+£700 a month into pension account, working 40 hours week, easy job. I feel very comfortable with my salary and if I want, I can work Sunday 8 hours for another £200 net pay. I'm 36 and I wouldn't mind having this job until retirement
@@galahaaadwhat job is it you’re working?
@@veganfuture4224 I was a CNC machinist in automotive company. Things have changed from my last comment, I've got back to my home country Slovakia and it was a mistake. If I knew, I would stay in UK
@@galahaaad oooh man I can understand.. I actually was a CNC machinist at some point in my life too - automotive pays the most tho. Why are you not happy with you decision may I ask?
@@veganfuture4224in my opinion political situation got much worse after 2023 elections in Slovakia. It might get to the point when I will seriously start to think about definitive emigration. Also the Slovak "dreamjob" I put my hopes into turned out to be boring, underpaid job with too many asshole colleagues
Im a software engineer and I love my career
Are u seeing the progress of ai ?? How are u feeling now??..
Chatgpt,gpt4 ,bard etc...
An actual SDE spend 12-14 hrs daily on solving critical bugs and developing scalable applications. Software Engineering is one of the toughest job and no one likes it except for money😅
@@beastman1927broo really? Do you think there is still future scope in software engineering after the launch of AI models
Man cannot live by bread alone. If you put Christ first in your life and know that you are not necessarily working for a boss or employer, but God. And your work ethic and attitude reflect that commitment and love, then you will always be fulfilled, no matter the job or career. Put God first in your life and you will be content. God bless and may mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance
Yes!
I’m 23 and just started my first engineering job, It’ll be a career for me, it’s a passion and I’m not letting any pressure get to me, working on my pace and enjoying myself while educating myself to get better at my field
thats good lol. going at your pace
Sorry mate, no one is going slow there
@@stefaniapozzi2296 wdym ?
I've only ever been happy when I wasn't employed, and that's NOT good!
They don't tell you that in school
I feel useless when I’m not working for more than a few days
I've been unemployed and I feel worthless and pointless. Why? Because I don't have the means to do whats important in my life. Supporting the life I want in my future.
😂😂😂😂😂😂...i kind of feel you on that, though! 👀
Yea, same here. Been the happiest and healthiest (physically and mentally) when I was unemployed.
Went to school for a career my family thought was “right” for me: in my early 20’s. It’s been over 40 years and I spent much of it trying to prove myself. It was honorable, I helped people but if asked, I’m not sure I’d do it again.
Do what you will with my meager input.
Covid-19 was a coup de grace in my career at the finish line.
My takeaway: do what you can do that is honest and won’t give you nightmares
Guess this is where I feel extremely lucky to be part of that 2%
I genuinely love what I do and I’ve very close bonds with my team, hell I even just helped one of my coworkers mow their lawn not even two hours ago. They’ve brought their daughter over to play with my cats, and even helped me move into my current house last fall. On top of that, I have a very healthy work/life balance, with unlimited PTO and a boss who literally doesn’t care when I log on or how long I’m on at a time as long as my work is done and I’m meeting project deadlines.
Now work, well work is work, and there’s always going to be good days and bad days. There’s always going to be tasks that feel menial that you’ll encounter periodically, but fundamentally, I’m ecstatic to do what I do and I never dread the next workday.
My advice would be to anyone looking to find a “career”, do something that you genuinely enjoy. Put your all into it, cultivate your skills and hone your craft, and you will flourish and eventually achieve the lifestyle you desire. Why? Because you’ll do whatever is necessary to always climb that next rung up the ladder. You’ll never be complacent. You’ll succeed.
What do you do?
I think he's a Walmart manager. It would be funny.
@@kenbranaugh8251 Security Engineer, specifically Vulnerability Management
you are lying
I enjoy sex, eating pizza, and playing video games. Are there any careers in this?
I DONT WANT TO HAVE A CAREER!
JUST A LIFE!
IN THESE TRYING TIMES!
❤❤❤❤🖖😎,
TOO OLD TOO WORRY
TOO YOUNG TO CARE!
IM HERE! WITH YOU!
I’m so happy that I chose my “vocation” to be a Catholic priest! It’s not a job and it’s not a career. Life is short and I wanted to spend my short life growing as close to the Lord as I could and bringing others with me. It’s very meaningful to bring meaning to peoples lives and to be walking with them on their journey and helping them get a sense of purpose in their life. The truth is, if we try to live out a mission of growing in love and holiness even in jobs or careers we can still find life meaningful!
Father, I am so glad to read this comment.
"Most jobs aren't desirable, meaningful, or the central place of your life"... but you dedicate more than half of the day to it. Adulthood is absolutely frightening! I wonder why civilization hasn't collapsed due to an epidemic of suicides (I'll grow up I suppose). We humans are animals with survival instinct after all...
I know right? If we knew when we were young that we weren’t going to do anything meaningful then what was honestly the point of even living life to begin with? Why were we even given so much pressure to do well in school when we were young if we were just going to be eaten alive anyways by society and be stuck in a shitty minimum wage job our whole lives while the corporates live comfortable lives on top?
This is why I have no faith in humanity. I wonder why we haven’t just launched nukes at each other yet.
"Find what you love & do that for a living"
Well humping, doing drugs, & being naked didn't get me that far regarding paying the bills.
Right!!! Get educated and get a good job! Work for higher salary. What's wrong with that?
Not who you know it's who u blow
This is what needs to be preached in high school!!!!!
It’s depressing to hear because it informs us that life is meaningless but yeah. The sickening reality is that human beings are just raised as cattle to be fed to the higher ups for power to remain control over society. Most of what we goddamn learn in school is shit we don’t even use in the real world. How disgusting is that? We’re just brainwashed and farmed as cattle in school before we graduate and all the jobs out there are there to put your neck on a leash just to work minimum wage and go nowhere in life.
The education system is rigged and whether you pass or fail school doesn’t matter because you’re still raised as cows to work low paying jobs anyways and you’re enslaved to them as part of society. It’s all done this way because the government owns your ass and it’s just to keep everything in balance under their evil control and so they continue living the comfortable lifestyles they live on top.
I was an honor roll student in high school and 3 years after I graduated, I’m merely a parking lot associate at Home Depot. What a complete joke society is.
I'm a CPA and can confirm. Job is stressful as fuck, long hours, etc. I wish I hadn't pursued this career path, but I've invested way too much time and money into it to pursue something else. I am stuck in my general path and dread my future.
Well if it makes you feel any better, CPA is the path I’m choosing. I have great respect for people like you and I hope you can find some fulfilment with it.
Clinical therapy is all of the above yet extremely rewarding. ❤
💯 fellow therapist
Could you explain why you chose to be a therapist, and why it's so rewarding? I'm concerned about burnout if I choose this job. Any advice would be appreciated:)
@@EtiainenAbaddon If you see this, I'm curious about your views as well!
I absolutely loved every minute of it the seven years I got to practice. I did not even come close to burn But I can tell you for me it is my faith. To be able to have prayer And to know it is not all up to me Helps tremendously.
Stressful, demanding, competitive, and difficult is a good description of the practice of law.
What you want is "pay up here (gestures a tall height) and work down here (low gesture)".
Wisdom is that you want to find the best balance of pay and effort that allows you to live the way you want to live
I wish that I had known this when I was young.
Thanks for sharing.
...I wish someone told this to me when I was much much younger. I'd have started my Entrepreneurial Journey sooner. I love this more because though it's not a get out of slavitude card, it opens me up to do work I want to do and be on the front line of seeing the direct impact of the work I do. Work days are longer but it's work you want to do... .
How interesting. Turning 28 next month and as a lawyer I can confirm there is no desire for close interpersonal relationships. Work days are an average of 13 hours. When the pandemic began I was a newly qualified and did even longer days. Most of my friends are either settled down now, getting married or having babies and don't understand why I'm not doing the same. After years of studying, training I'm finally doing what I was working towards all this time. The legal profession is incredibly demanding. After a really long day, I just want some peace. It's nice to know that someone out there understands.
Edit: 29 in a few weeks... In a year, I got promoted & a chance to build/train my own team - after even more hours, hard work, tears & meltdowns later... I now work reduced hours, take weekends off, and even travel so long as there is WiFi. If you're reading this, keep hustling. 🤍
..Lawy-ers are nar-cissists. That's why. Being a la-wyer is not a career or for intell-igent people. It's for hor-rible thi-eves. But you know all of this.
Trust me I know that feeling all too well
I do 60 hour weeks in engineering and I understand. All I want is peace. My tolerance for stress or fighting or headaches in my free time after work is literally 0. I just can't take more of that.
Everyone that owns a business understands.
@@GunterD1337 amen, a disgruntled lady is not on the menu.
As a recruiter myself, if you said you want the job because you need money, it's good enough for me. I won't try to dig more. It's a common sense and reasonable. It is a strong drive.
As long as you have the skills and the best among other candidates. You're in.
Look folks, a job and a career are one and the same. Don’t let these overly complicated, academics try dumbing down your views. If you view your job as a career, then it’s your career.
As a male stripper, I find my career very enjoyable and intimate. 😂
Damn youre lucky...
But how long can you do that for? So it’s a temporary gig 😝
@@jjawesome210 he can retire 20 years earlier than you duh
@@jjawesome210 You can always work the nursing homes. What 100 year old gal wouldn’t want a stripper for her birthday?😜
Lol, but it must be so fast paced!
I feel like you have an advantage over female strippers: more demand & much less competition. Is that true?
I'm a designer and find very meaningful connections in my field. It is very demanding, stressful, and competitive....but it is fulfilling
How did you become a designer? What sort of education would you need?
Love the definition of a jpb and a career..so true.
Same for Accounting and Medical field.
Always been having second thoughts if I made the right decision in quitting law school until now. Thank you Jordan.
Jordan: “Life is shit no matter what so let’s all continue to contribute to what makes life so shit.”
A real intellectual, there
He’s being honest with you. If you’re perception of this is negative, that’s your mindset not his.
He said the opposite. Your job is most likely shit so find meaning and contentment outside of it.
@@varshasindhu5672 dont try to kill the disease, just dull the symptoms
@@diedrichfilms6437 what do you propose? Burn it all to the ground?
And don't forget to bring more babies into the suffering! - J. B. Peterson
I work as a security guard. It's boring, and my human interactions are few.
But I love it!!!
That Freudian slip of "interment" was the truest thing he said. Because people often get buried in their jobs/careers in order to keep up with the demand it places on them.
As much as this hurts it is very true .. 😞
I’m in biotechnology and this couldn’t be more accurate
Biotechnology industry have jobs and only1% build carriers
It probably pays well.
@@zackcarl7861 You’re half right
@@archon7945 Did you study biotechnology?
@@garfield850 yes..
So uplifting.
I'm a no body. Just completed high school in life........I'm over 50 now and don't have a social life. I do have a career. I'm a train operator...Extremely well paid and love my career. I show up to work 45min to a hour early and do overtime if I can.....Hopefully I can work to 70 years old. Not because I have too....Awesome pension, but because I want to... My life has meaning since my career......Imagine growing up sleep walking in life amounting to nothing with dead end jobs in my 30s. Then you end up trying your best in exams and months of testing until 2 years later you finding made it...You make so much money for the company your not even considered an expensive. Your a serious asset which is everything to the business. Your told this constantly. I take it seriously and make sure safety and efficiency is my top priority.
Why?...I use to play with trains as a kid....Had a extensive train set.....took up a 3rd of the attic. My love and joy as a child becomes my reality.....I cannot explain to you how this feels. I can only say....I understand what he means......For once....I can relate...
That's so cool!
What difficulties does a train operator face, day to day?
As they say, do what you like 👍 and you'll never work a day in your life.
Lol
I'm 20 Yrs old and I have a career. At one point I was in school getting my certifications for the job I was already doing. I would wake up at 7:30 and get home between 12 and 2 A.M. the next day. I'm an A&P and I love Aviation with such a passion that some days on my day off I choose to work on aircraft because I genuinely enjoy it so much. I'm training to be a pilot now which is likely to be an even more demanding career, but when you love your passion I'd your Job it's a hell of a lot easier to justify. What he doesn't talk about for the career aspect is that yes while it eats up your life outside of work it leaves you with a sense of fulfilment and pride in what you do that a standard job doesn't.
I like the way things are outside of corporate America. A business just puts a "Help Wanted" sign in the window and someone who needs a job goes in to ask about the job. No pretense on either part.
I think it’s critical to find out what’s important to you. What do you value? Some people want desperately to be at the top of their field & the sacrifice their personal lives to get it. Me, I know right now there’s no
career that I care about, there’s no field that I want to be on the top of that’s more important than being in the lives of my 2 kids. Neither one of us are wrong.
JP has so much wisdom, it's amazing
Yeah because everyone else is dumb
It’s not really it’s just basic shit anybody could have told you if it’s true, and the rest is shit he made up while he was on heroin pills
No he doesn’t, only 2% of people have careers? That’s BS right there
@@Machame08 walk in a full bus and you'll only find a couple of people with an actual career. Doesn't that sound just about right?
@@tacitozetticci9308 Flawed premise, most of the people taking public buses are likely blue collar working class or may even be unemployed, so that’s not a good sample
I’ve been cooking professionally for just over twenty years, it’s been a career for sure but it’s also been a wild one 😝
I needed this so much 15 years ago
Lucky if you like me happen to have been granted the opportunity to go to Law School. Indeed very demanding stressful and competir and no intimate personal relationships are not really found there. I still work as one, but thank God, mainly teaching it at a University.
Then I went back to University, while being a Las Profesor, to become a clinical Psychologist. I need to be in contact with people and help them with their emotional trouble.
Go for it if you have the blessing of Perusing a career. You’re not to old. Money you’ll eventually get it back if you happen to be in debt; specially if you are lucky enough to do what you like for a living a true career. Become a great whatever and money will come.
Hope this helps someone. Thanks Doctor.
If you’re already in University; Study. Learn from professors, books and people.
Thank-you deeply:)
I hate shrinks. Helps nothing.
If you love what you do it’s a career.
What I do is managing files on my HDD over these past 3 years that only just broke last wednesday. And now I need a job for data recovery company. "BTW Playing Games really gives me comfort and love for what I'm doing, really genuine happiness."
😂😂😂😂
I thank God I found I job I enjoy. Of course, it isnt my main passion, but I get to do my passion for fun now and work where Im also passionate about. It doesnt pay too much, but I can find happiness and fulfillment in this career
What is your job? I m curious :)
@@selintuncer5430 Im an Arborist. Climb trees for pruning or removal
Exactly what I needed to hear on my lunch break.
His honesty is so refreshing....
They need to accept more students into medical schools. We don’t have nearly enough doctors in this country. Few people can even get the medical care they need in this country, and it’s exponentially worse in any other country. Medical school is insanely expensive, and it could be less so if they would accept more students. Yeah, you want your doctors to be competent, but why the eff do we allow public schools to get away with the absolute crap they do?? CRT, Social Emotional Leaning, etc… Most schools are worse than worthless!
@Russell Phelan, I live in The Twin Cities Metro Area of Minnesota. The curricula in my area is super-woke, and has been ridiculously leftist since at least as far back as I was in school (1980s to ‘90s).
Medical school at NYU is now tuition free
Because there is money in sickness and illness 🤷🏾♀️
There's a reason there aren't more doctors in this country. People aren't educated enough and the public schools are dumbing them down even further. Also become a doctor takes way to damn long, esp after the burn out of so many years in public school already because they finish school too late, either have a life or go to school after so many years, I chose not to become a doctor, not sorry either.
My God, be climate scientist, be arborist, be farmers, be something to do with Earth.
So inspiring & uplifting!!😍😍😍
I needed this😢 Thank you sir
Working as a traveling welder pipe welder. Generally work 60 hours in 5 days to have 2 days off where I volunteer work with kids to make their lives better (help with home work, being a mountain bike coach, being an adult they can trust and lean on when they're not feeling good etc. I spend roughly 25 hours in my house every week, that is 3 nights worth of sleep. And cutting the lawn once per week. I have had 3 days of vacation in total during the last 4 years
I have no time for a relationship and I feel no pull for one either.
The few hours here and there when I have time for myself do I have more than enough money to do whatever I want, which is driving my dream car, and me owning a house and my dream car without having loaned a single penny at age 25 just shows that working is what I do best and what I love to do.
I would say that I have a career and I'm working towards a goal.
Damn, thanks for the warning. My career always had a dead end.
peterson always gets so close to the whole picture but always misses. The idea that most jobs aren't meaningful is true but he never goes on to say "we should make jobs more meaningful"
AGREE.
There are ways to do so, adding value to yourself and bringing that to the workplace can really make a difference.
I think he is hinting to add to your skill set, be curious about the world, learn new things, and you can find a job that fulfills you. Rather then just wanting a career to make a lot of money. It is give and take
Jobs are designed to generate profit. Not "meaning".
Gee, thx for the breath of optimism, Buzz Killington.
Thanks for the truth and clarity 🙏
Feel like it’s edited out of the picture he was trying to get to
Me tpp
Always like this, this kind of contents are very toxic in my opinion
Anyone has the link of the og video?
I don't think so.. He made his point very clear in this video.
Thank you .
I always love these shorts with his insights.. they're very eye opening and true
"All men lead lives of quiet desperation"
I mean, I’m confused. I have a masters level “job”. I say that because I feel that anything I would work at is something I wouldn’t do voluntarily. For me total freedom isn’t possible in any career or job, therefore I would never opt to do it if I wasn’t getting paid.
Put his links and his books in the description. Otherwise you’re ripping of.
Pay jordon personally for listening to his work, or you’re ripping him off.
Put affiliate links and then you are Also making money while ripping off
@Good Bye asking the real questions here
I'm not sure if JP would agree, but the real rip off is that this should be common knowledge, but it's not
I think JP doesn't mind how anybody came about his information, so long as it's useful to them & JP has something to feed his family at the end of the day
Thank you jirdan
My mom is a lawyer running a small scale legal aid company. While it is a very demanding job, she has definitely found a fufillment for her desire for interpersonal relationships through her jobs.. Because she herself acts as a humanr ather than money hungry lawyer. Don't underestimate the power of the individual regardless of the environment.