“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. » This quote from Confucius is a definition that may seem very accurate of the profession of passion. We dreamed of being a journalist, a nurse, becoming a theater actor or working in the humanitarian sector, and we managed to follow the right training, get the right diploma and get started…
But disillusionment is sometimes at the end of the road: exercising a passionate profession often requires sacrifices, especially in terms of salary and pace of life. Precariousness, personal life put aside, burn-out are another aspect of the profession passionwhich we tend to neglect.
What exactly is a passion job? Loving your job, is it necessarily making sacrifices in the other spheres of your life and on your salary? How to get out of the trap that this can represent?
Geraldine Mayr receives Anne-Claire Genthialonproducer of audiovisual documentaries, who published The trap of the passionate profession at Alisio editions. She talks to us about her journey, the risks that a profession that one exercises out of passion can entail and the ways to get out of it.