Dear Philosophers,

Dear Philosophers,

Dear Philosophers, I've been told the "dream girl" as the "dream job" as the "dream life" don't exist. I disagree, I found a wonderful partner and got married to her. It is not a dream, meaning not everything is perfect: I have my flaws and so has she. the question is I've been looking for a career, an activity, anything that can make me happy, energetic, feel alive. (find the job you love and you won't have to work for the rest of your life; find what you love and you will wake up early and go to bed late because without feeling tired, and so on). I've tried to go for the prestige, and worked in bank and multinationals without any results. I then decided to go for the skills, played guitar, surfed, snowboarded, read, did marathons, learnt languages and so on but couldn't get any money from this and evidently it is not my vocation/career. At last I thought I could be a good salesmen and applied for many job. I have a decent job, that for many could be a dream one, as a sales manager, but I hate it, it's stressful and it doesn't seem like a vacation at all. How can I find something that I love, devote entirely to this activity and get rich at the same time? I know it exists, I've tried everything, listened to my soul, do a list of activities I like and so on. NOTHING worked. I'm thirty years old and I feel like a hundred because of the energy that this deep search demands. Could you help me?

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