What is the difference between two adjectives fulfilling and fulfilled?

[mehdi 100]

Hi.
I would like to know when should I use fulfilling and when fulfilled? I already know that both are adjectives.

I found these examples:
Nursing is still one of the most fulfilling careers
A sense of flow can hep people achieve more fulfilling lives.
Adult education helps people achieve more fulfilled lives.
I enjoy being a mother, but to feel fulfilled I need to work.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hi.
I would like to know when should I use fulfilling and when fulfilled? I already know that both are adjectives.

I found these examples:
Nursing is still one of the most fulfilling careers.

Fulfilling is what it can or will be doing: fulfilling you.

A sense of flow can hep people achieve more fulfilling lives.

Same as the above.

Adult education helps people achieve more fulfilling lives.

Same as the above.

I enjoy being a mother, but to feel fulfilled I need to work.

Work will fulfill you. So if you work, that's how you will feel. You will feel fulfilled.

That's the best I can do. Maybe someone else can make it clearer.

 

[Morgan]

NOT A TEACHER and NOT A NATIVE SPEAKER

From this source: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil...-intermediate/adjectives-ending-in-ed-and-ing

Adjectives ending -ed usually describe emotions that people feel. And adjectives ending -ing describe things or actions which make people feel these emotions.
For example, nursing is a career that makes people feel fulfilled. That's why nursing is a fulfilling career.
Or horror films are frightening because they make me feel frightened. If I say "they make me frightening," that would mean I look so scary that people are afraid of me.

 

[TheParser]

NOT A TEACHER

Medhi, I have made up this sentence after checking the "Books" section of Google: "Miss Florence Nightingale, whom I have always very much admired, led both a fulfilled and fulfilling life."