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 I don't think this is good advise, doing what you love without thinking about if you can make a living out of it is poor advise, specially for men.

You can love what you do, no matter how big or small it is, but strive to do something that others also need and thus you can make a living out of it.

If you can achieve both, doing what you love and be economically successful, great! 🤙🏻 but if you have to choose you better pick a good job over being happy in the short term by avoiding the crap you don't want to deal with.  
 This is the ideal, ikigai:
https://image.nostr.build/86bd474f9c1e680c78afc6c2c1cc7c1d483cf2796dd2d171d2a41fd57c840c3a.jpg 
 That is definitely something worth aiming for.

But see how different it is compared to the naïve (and dangerous) advise of "do what you love)  
 it depends on what "love" we're talking about, I guess. when "what we love" comes from a place of immediate pleasure or maintaining an image of who you are and what you are supposed to love is not going to be good for anyone. but if do "what you love" comes from a genuine place, it is also a call from life and it will benefit all. and I risk to say we won't know the difference thinking about it.