The Trouble with Passion - by Anne Helen Petersen

AHP Note: Every so often I get a great pitch for a guest interview and hand the Culture Study reins over to someone else (usually a reader who *gets it*) to handle the interview (and get paid for it, of course — your subscriptions made it possible for me to pay significantly above the going industry rate, which is really, really awesome). This week, Tyler Burgese interviews sociology professor Erin A. Cech about her work on *passion jobs* — something anyone who’s read my work knows I’ve been thinking about for years. Enjoy, and if you have a spectacularly good idea for a future Culture Study interview, you know where to find me (aka, my email: annehelenpetersen at gmail dot com)

…I’ll admit that I had a hard time typing that with a straight face. Was it ever that simple?! In reality, tying something you love doing directly to your financial stability is logistically and emotionally fraught, to say the least. 

We Culture Study readers are in near-constant dialogue about the role of work in our lives, from LARPing your job to vocational awe, from quiet quitting to loud quitting, and what makes a job secure, or even just good. For this reason and many others, I’m delighted to introduce this week’s interview that will surely add even more texture to these ongoing conversations.

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