Every job advice counselor suggests to find ‘your true passion.’   Easily said, hard to achieve.  Most of us have no clue how to find our passion.  We simply lack the ability to TIVO ourselves ahead a few years to see if THIS job could provide the passion.

So—how can you find YOUR passion, if you really don’t know?

It is easy.  First, what do you HATE doing?  What kinds of jobs have you had that you hate?

In my own case, I was in the Air Force.  One of my early jobs was as a missle officer.  I literally managed a nuclear missle facility.  The responsibility, as you can appreciate ,was awesome, even intimidating.  But there was one thing I HATED.

As you can probably understand, everything we did at the missle complex was ‘by the book.’  There were no options, none, for creativity at the missle silo.  You can appreciate that, right?  I hated it….and decided then and there, I would not work somewhere that was so regimented, so by the book.

So what do YOU HATE?  Make a list…then make a list of exactly the opposite.  Chances are, you will get closer to finding your true passion.