A (Realistic) 7-Step Guide to Finding a Career You Love

It doesn’t just come down to “doing what you love”

Lauren Shroll
7 min readJun 10, 2022
Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash

It’s no great mystery. Finding a career you love is no easy feat.

Plus, everyone and their brother seems to have their two cents to share when it comes to this topic. People will always tell you to “do what you love” and “find your passion”.

This usually tends to lead to you struggling. You take the advice of “doing what you love” but you end up hating what once was your hobby, or you go down the path of finding out that doing “what you love” didn’t pay out as well as you thought.

Fast forward…your future self is in a bind.

In order for you to avoid that reality, I want to lay out some more realistic (and easy-to-implement) advice on how to find a career that you love (whether you’re going from “college to career” or your want to change up your current role).

I want to share some insightful steps that go way beyond the advice of just “do what you love to do and you’ll never work a day in your life.” (Sound familiar?)

I want you to find the kind of meaningful career that not only “feels right”, but earns you more than enough to pay rent each month.

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Lauren Shroll

Ax-throwing cake decorator turned tech startup nerd. I write content for B2B SaaS and F&B startups. Website: camilleoutsidethebox.com