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What I'm saying is I want to be rich, but I don't have a passion for the process of making money. Some people love making money as an ends of itself, it's all one big game.
You are saying that you want $1,000,000. But you don't have a passion to go make $1,000,000.
So you are trying to find something that you like to do even though it may make you only $100,000 versus finding something that you don't like to do that may make you $1,000,000.
Let me ask you this.
Suppose you love video games and opened up a store and each video game you sold made you $50 profit. You get to research video games and test them out, play them all day.
Now suppose you hate riding lawnmowers and opened up a store and each riding lawnmower you sold made you $500 profit. But riding lawnmowers are boring and you didn't give a shit about them.
Now let's pretend each store made 5 sales a day, 365 days a year.
Your video game store would make $91,250 a year. Your riding lawnmower store would make $912,500 a year.
You then sell your stores and cash out after 3 years. The video game store sells for $300,000 and the riding lawnmower store sells for $3,000,000.
So for the exact same amount of work you could have cashed out in 3 years and now play video games for the rest of your life. Or you could follow your passion and do something more enjoyable but less profitable and do it forever.
And as others have said, passion changes. Once you turn 30 you may hate video games, and love skydiving. Guess what, if you cashed out your $3M, you can go from video gaming to skydiving in an instant. But instead you are suck with a video game store.