Finding your purpose / passion / goals

It's difficult to imagine a structured way of finding something you love doing. It turns out I really like computer science (algorithm/maths side) - but I've discovered that pretty much by accident. All I can suggest is trying as many different things as you can, hoping one sticks.

engineering for example.

may not be "fun" but there's a lot of money init and room to advance.

Engineering is pretty good really. Frustrating at times, but it's hard to imagine anything better.
 
Money is motivation now... don't care how sickening or boring that is to anyone.
I'm already refocusing most of my energy in getting into what I've predicted (and verified) will be a booming industry over the next 30-40 years.. entirely helped by networking to help me jump loops and opportunities I 100% know I don't deserve. All of this work of course won't be taking place in tax high and decaying Europe :)
 
I really liked web design/development, but fell into a role as software consultant for a niche market. It pays really well and is pretty good for the most part. I would likely enjoy web work more but no way I'd be happy with a massive pay cut. Best to focus on the positives, like working from home 3-4 days a week.

My passion is powerlifting, and it keeps me motivated and focused in life.
 
I really liked web design/development, but fell into a role as software consultant for a niche market. It pays really well and is pretty good for the most part. I would likely enjoy web work more but no way I'd be happy with a massive pay cut. Best to focus on the positives, like working from home 3-4 days a week.

My passion is powerlifting, and it keeps me motivated and focused in life.

may I ask what the niche is?

I'm doing way less dev work so I'm tempted to start learning again and perhaps get into a dev team to see if I like it any more now.
 
I found myself in a position similar to yours a few years ago. The path I've chosen is marine engineering and I've gone about it through a cadetship, whereby you're sponsored through your academics by a shipping company, and provided a berth on one of their ships on which to do the actual hands on, sea going side of things. I started applying when I was 26, got a place when I was 27, and now, at the age of 29 (and frighteningly quickly approaching 30) I find myself within a few months of the end.

I've already completed the college side of things, which consisted of several workshop courses such as welding, machining, plant and so forth, and a HNC in Marine Engineering which I got an A for in January. I'm just on the 2nd of 2 sea going trips at the moment aboard a car carrier my sponsor operates.

Looking back, I'm glad I've done it as I was previously going nowhere. Before all this I'd left school and college with a brace of good GCSE and A-level grades but that was about it, and found myself meandering from office admin job to office admin job, that I found utterly un-engaging. A spate of 5 redundancies over 2 years shown me it was time to change however.
 
Has anybody put significant amounts of time into finding their purpose / passion? If so was it successful and how did you do it?

It usually comes at random after doing certain tasks and you find that you "love it", I've found that I have a passion for trying different food from all parts of the world, but I don't think I can actually land any job with said passion :o Anyone here making TV show about different foods of the world? :D

My passion changed during different moments of my life, As a kid, as a kid of aroun 6-7 years of age - I enjoyed building different things with lego, making remote control cars, sketching and making miniature replica's of different things with match sticks.

At age 7-11 I increasingly practiced sketching and painting and won 6 gold medals and a few silvers medals from art competitions against different schools. I had also competed in chess competitions and 100m dash - which I've both lost :p Turns out I had relatively short legs to be a fast runner.

At age 11-12+, my father helped me build my own PC, and I found I enjoyed it a lot as a hobby - but couldn't imagine doing it for a living, so naturally got interested in software as well - so I started studying myself, I started doing what script kiddies do.. writing some really non-sense scripts that serve no purpose, I also enjoyed gaming - I'd join MMORPG, use packet sniffing and find exploits and use it to do stuff you aren't meant to do and got banned form a couple of games.

In summary, just TRY OUT A LOT OF THINGS.

I am now about to graduate doing a course on Software in University and already have almost 2 years experience working in the industry... Already got quite a lot of jobs lined up to choose from and all with relatively high salary relative to what graduates usually get.

edit - I still practice sketching regularly and hope to publish a graphic novel at some point (hopefully).
 
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