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# Work driven by interest and work for a living brin…


## Comments (2)

- **不做咸鱼的小明 · 2026-04-21T07:16:59.000Z**: It's not easy for someone to have a passion that they deeply love. It's even harder when that passion goes against mainstream societal values, yet the person persists with enough stubbornness. To be sufficiently stubborn, different from the crowd, and still manage to survive and live a good life in 
- **Starling · 2026-04-20T16:44:03.000Z · 👍 1**: Ming, the problem is that when you're working for someone else, it's hard to have a job that's purely based on interest. Overall, it's just trading time for money.