Look, 2017 was supposed to be my year, right? Wrong. I’m a textbook Pisces, and that year just kicked my butt. I chucked a good salary job late 2016 because I couldn’t stand another soul-sucking meeting. I was burnt out, man. Totally fried. Then the reality of zero income smacked me in the face harder than a two-by-four. Bills didn’t care about my creative spirit or my need for ‘recharge’ time. They just kept piling up.
I spent two months feeling completely lost. My savings were taking a serious hit, and real-world job hunting wasn’t working. I was sending CVs into the great organizational void, and nobody was calling. So, I did the only thing a completely desperate person does when the traditional path fails: I went spiritual. I started poking around online for “Pisces Career Forecast 2017.” I was looking for a silver bullet, some cosmic cheat sheet that would just tell me where the money was.
I dug into every flaky astrology blog and forum I could find. It felt like I was grasping at straws, honestly. I read every single one of those articles claiming to hold the absolute truth about my career path that year.
What did they tell me? A whole bunch of contradictory garbage. It was a massive confusing scatter plot of advice.
- One site said Pisces should pivot hard into healing arts or non-profits. Save the whales, basically, and worry about my rent later.
- Another swore up and down that 2017 was the time to embrace technology or finance—the total opposite of the dreamy artist stereotype.
- A third one was all about starting your own tiny creative side hustle, which sounded nice, but bills don’t pay themselves with ‘nice’ intentions.
The Great 2017 Career Experiment
I decided to test the most out-there advice first. The creative route. The one everyone assumes a Pisces should take. I dusted off my old amateur design portfolio—it was mostly just silly mock-ups from a class years ago—and started pitching small freelance graphic design gigs on a few platforms. Total disaster. Clients were slow to pay, the rates were insulting, and I was spending more time chasing invoices and getting frustrated than actually designing. The stress was worse than the soul-sucking job I had quit. I quit that freelance idea after about eight weeks. Couldn’t even make the equivalent of half my old rent.
That’s when the fear hit me properly. I had to get practical, fast. I pivoted again, completely abandoning the artsy cosmic advice, and looked at those ‘boring’ finance/admin roles. The ones that paid steady money, no matter how dull they sounded. I applied for a data entry gig at a logistics company down the road. It was the antithesis of everything I thought my creative, watery Pisces nature required.
I walked into that interview feeling like a total fraud, like I was betraying my zodiac sign, but I nailed the behavioral questions and I got the job. It was mind-numbing work. Seriously. I spent six months in a gray cubicle, logging inventory codes, staring at spreadsheets, and trying not to fall asleep. But here’s the kicker: it was steady. It pulled me out of the financial hole that had been slowly eating my savings alive. It provided a damn structure that the ‘best career for Pisces’ advice completely failed to deliver.
So, what’s the real truth about the best career for Pisces in 2017? It wasn’t some dreamy, creative, save-the-world path, despite what the online psychics were selling. It was whatever allowed me to sleep at night. That six months in the logistics pit stop was the best career move I made that year, not because I loved the job, but because it stabilized everything else.
Was 2017 a good year for jobs? For me? No. It was a chaotic mess that forced me to stop following airy-fairy advice and start grabbing the nearest lifeboat. The whole experience taught me something huge that year.
- I realized that most of that horoscope career advice is based on lazy stereotypes. They say Pisces is artistic, so they tell you to be an artist. That’s not deep wisdom; that’s just basic generalization.
- I understood that financial security is the base layer for any good career. You can’t chase your true dreams if you’re constantly stressed about the phone or the power being shut off. Period.
- I finally accepted that sometimes, you just have to take the boring, pragmatic job to buy yourself time and clear mental space to find the great job. It’s a necessary bridge, not a permanent destination.
I eventually left that data gig, but only once the bills were paid and I had a clear head and a new direction. The stability that job gave me allowed me to plot my escape properly and find something truly better in 2018. If you’re a Pisces who looked at 2017 and thought, “Man, this was garbage,” you’re not alone. The cosmos might have had a plan, but my bank account definitely had a different one. You gotta prioritize the practical first. Always. That’s my raw takeaway.
