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I am very talented but I lack passion. I don't feel the urge to do or create anything. I don't want to express myself. I do absolutely nothing, and this has started to bother me.
Occasionally, I am motivated to make something, but it's because I see someone else's work and think I can easily do better. I always do.
Due to circumstances, I am going to be stuck in a limbo state for the next year, unable to pursue the only goal that I do have. During this time, what can I do to earn extra money online?
Game development seems like a good enough grift, right?
And, to be honest, what actually bothers me isn't that I don't do anything, but that I don't seem to have the natural urge that would lend itself to monetization.
You'll compete with a million autists who do it for free.
I'll compete with them regardless of what I choose to do. That's the problem with a lack of passion. The only question now is what should I do? I was also thinking of setting up Youtube slopfarms by training Loras for local LLMs to generate scripts. These would be much more entertaining compared to what GPT-4 generates.
No, because there are lots of more boring software jobs which don't have a million autists who want to do them for free. If anything, not having passion is a career strength, not a weakness. It leaves you free to pursue opportunities which pay well but aren't sexy.
Number one advice for regular motte life advice request post should always be avoid getting nerdsniped. Such a useful term
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