Pursue The Passion
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Written by Aviad Faruz Running FARUZO, another jewelry brand and three event venues creates a strange career risk: the more reliable you become, the more routine information finds its way to you. A schedule changes, so someone asks for the latest version. A date may conflict, so every update waits for your review. You become…
Written by Victor Smushkevich When people ask for career advice, they usually ask whether to follow their passion. I would change the question. Passion is a good reason to start something. It is a poor way to decide whether that something should pay your rent. I build a consumer mobile app, and the lessons that…
Written by Ritu Kumari Five years ago, if someone had asked what I was passionate about, I’d have said “writing.” That was true, but it didn’t help much. Plenty of people love writing. Very few get paid well to do it, and fewer still enjoy the jobs that pay for it. What actually shaped my…
Written by Om Yadav A career doesn’t always begin with a perfect plan. Sometimes it starts with learning one useful skill and figuring out where that skill can take you. For me, digital marketing became that starting point. What began as an interest in advertising and online growth eventually developed into building Yavi Media, a…
Written by Kuldeep Kundal Growth feels like a triumph in the early years. Every new client and every hire serves as validation for the original vision. Yet, extreme scale introduces a hidden cost that few leaders anticipate. This cost is the erosion of institutional memory. As organizations expand, the informal networks that once carried critical…
Written by Alyssa Ostroff The worst career advice I ever got was also the most common: follow your passion. It sounds inspiring until you’re sitting in the wreckage of a job you didn’t choose to leave, realizing you don’t have a single clear “passion” waiting in the wings to follow. That was me in the…
Written by RHILLANE Ayoub TLDR: Eighteen months into running my own agency out of Tangier, I lost my two biggest clients in the same month and came within one signed offer letter of shutting it down for a stable paycheck. I turned the offer down, rebuilt the client base from almost nothing, and the decision to…
Written by RHILLANE Ayoub TLDR: I started RMD in Tangier with two clients and a laptop, and by month eight I had one client left and no way to make payroll. The thing that kept the company alive was not a clever pivot; it was refusing to shrink the promise I had made to the first…
Written by Sergio Franco Finding a job that pays the bills is one thing. Finding work that fits your interests, strengths, and ambitions is harder. For skilled workers, the best career match often comes from looking beyond a job title and understanding what kind of work keeps them engaged. In my experience working around hiring,…
Written by Lilach Bullock The year my body and my business both gave out Covid killed the agency I had built. My back, which had been giving me warning shots for years, finally gave out: a herniated disc that put me in a wheelchair. From there I moved to a walking stick. Somewhere in that…
Written by Mark Dixon Over the years, plenty of young people have walked into our hangar at Boorowa. Each one holds a printout about the global pilot shortage. So they arrive believing the world needs hundreds of thousands of new pilots. Naturally, they treat a commercial licence as a golden ticket. Then they ask how…
Written by Lilach Bullock The refused four-day week I asked my employer for one day back a week after my daughter was born and they said no. I was a training manager by then, after years as a legal secretary, and the answer felt final in a way that made staying pointless. I did not…
Written by Chris Roberts A manufacturing career becomes worth pursuing long term when employees can see a future beyond the job they were hired to do. That sounds simple, but it is something many manufacturers still overlook when they struggle with retention. In plastics and other manufacturing environments, I have seen good operators leave not…
Written by Andrew Antokhin Hi! I’m Andrew Antokhin. My journey began as an agency intern, and within a year, I advanced to leading a team of specialists. After expanding my skill set in-house and through independent consulting, I founded my own agency, Inverox Digital. Today, our focus is on scaling international operations, developing custom marketing…
Written by Vardan Ter-Antonyan I grew up in Armenia during the difficult years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country was newly independent, but daily life felt uncertain. Electricity and natural gas were often unavailable. Winters were bitterly cold, and darkness arrived early. As a child, I learned to do my homework…
Written by Lazaro Carlos Healthcare workers are often told to “follow their passion,” but that advice can feel impractical when the bills still need to be paid and the next career move needs to make sense. After years of working around healthcare hiring and workforce decisions, I’ve found that the better question is not simply,…
Written by Carolyn Vasquez I started Ready Rental Cleaning because Los Angeles has more Airbnb and VRBO listings than hosts have hours in the day. Somebody has to turn a rental around between checkout and check-in: strip the beds, reset the kitchen, make the bathroom look like nobody has ever showered in it. I did…
Written by Jason DeLa Luna Most career advice focuses on the individual: build new skills, improve your résumé, expand your network, and work harder. All of those things matter. But after years of working around hiring and career decisions, I have seen another factor make a meaningful difference: having someone experienced enough to help you…
Written by Nassira Sennoune TLDR: Three years ago I left a generalist SEO role with a bigger title for a narrower one, doing SEO for a single luxury real estate brokerage in Marrakech. Everyone around me called it a step down. It was the best career decision I have made, and the reason is not what…
Written by Ihor Lavrenenko Finding a job can feel strangely inefficient. A qualified candidate may send dozens of applications and hear almost nothing, while companies say they cannot find enough people with the right skills. That disconnect is one reason staffing agencies continue to play a large role in the U.S. job market. They connect…
Written by Roger Lopez The worst time to start thinking about a critical hire is when the person currently doing the job has already resigned. Yet that is exactly how many companies operate. A key leader gives notice, a technical specialist announces retirement, or a high-performing manager is suddenly promoted. Only then does the organization…
Written by Jason Keeley I spent years of my life chasing a stopwatch and a scoreboard before I ever chased a paycheck. Long before I built Quoted into a daily source of motivation for thousands of readers, I was a collegiate athlete learning lessons the hard way — in early mornings, in losses that stung…
Written by Ankush Gupta There is a particular kind of quiet that comes over you when you are looking at something on a screen that should not exist. Mine arrived on an ordinary morning. I was checking on one of the publications we run, the way you check on things you have built, half paying…
Written by Brian Jackson Passion can get a skilled worker through a difficult shift. It rarely keeps someone in the trade for 10 or 20 years by itself. What makes the difference is whether that passion can be turned into a career with increasing responsibility, better earnings, stronger skills, and a clear sense of where…
