DISQUS

Twiggers · 1 year ago

Well, my passion is reading and traveling. My job involves reading and traveling. Reading empirical journal articles and traveling to conferences LOL My job might not be what my passion as a child was...but I do LOVE my job! I read somewhere that if you can do something for 2 hours without looking at the clock or wondering what time it is then that is something you love! Not sure if it's true or not...but I haven't look at a clock in years while working, unless it's to see if I'm late for a meeting.

CJ · 1 year ago

My passion is web design (I do it on the side), helping people make their lives better (I currently work in a church), and making money (isn't everyone passionate about this at least a little). Unfortunately it's hard to combine all of these things.

Helping people and making money are often mutually exclusive. What I decided to do was start a blog about making money (and getting out of debt). This sort of fills all of my passions. I got to design the website (passion #1). I get to help other people (passion #2). And I get to talk about money (passion #3). I'm loving it so far even if it is relatively new.

I have worked several jobs I loved and several I hated. I would rather get paid less (working at my church) to do something I love than get paid more (running my own Grand Canyon Tour Company) and not enjoy it. If you spend 40 hours of your week at work, you might as well like it. I have an uncle who is a pharmacist. He became one because of the money. He hates going to work every morning. I get paid 1/4 that he does but I am happier than he is and also happen to be in better financial shape than he is due to his piling amounts of debt.

It pays to love what you do.

Joshua · 1 year ago

I majored in Music Education too. Now I manage the print music in a local music store. I would say I love what I do, but the trade off is that you don't get paid enough. I mean I get paid enough to own a house, pay all my bills, etc., but investing and all that is quite far out of my reach. I guess it's better to wake up in the morning and love getting in the car to go to work, then to hate it.

If you ever want to get back into seriously playing I can get you whatever you need!

klerg · 1 year ago

I wholeheartedly agree with CJ...it pays to love what you do.

I'm a front-end web developer and I thoroughly enjoy what my job. I get up everyday always happy to get to to work, and I'm fortunate that it pays enough for me to cover my share of the bills, sock away some cash for retirement and save some cash in a rainy day. Still even with they pay were a little bit less, I would still keep the gig because I love it!!!!

Jennson · 1 year ago

I went to college without much direction and never devoted much time into anything beyond school. The message I felt that I got was "go to school, do well in school and you will get a good job." What kind of job it would be was irrelevant, but it meant getting a well-paid job in a career track that my parents felt had stability in life. 5 years after I graduated from college, I've learned that finance and banking is interesting and I do enjoy the job I do, but to split my time between that and my hobby of following music acts is challenging to say the least. It has its tradeoffs, but I feel that I am in a good place right now and hope to continue on a path of self-improvement that involves both finance and music. Reconciling those two interests will always be an issue for me.

Meg · 1 year ago

My two passions are music and writing, but I was discouraged from doing either and pressured to study engineering instead. I hate what I do. Still, I was raised believing that if work were enjoyable, they wouldn't call it work. I was also told that since no one enjoys their job anyway, I might as well go for the one that pays well. Now that I'm older, I'm slowly learning that none of what I was told is really true, but old mindsets die hard.

Karen · 1 year ago

This is a perfect example of doing what you love for a living. It's too long a story here - but my husband at the age of 40 went back to trade school to be a welder but ended up taking machining as well. He ended up tutoring many students and again - to make a long story short - became an instructor in manual machining and CNC machining. He LOVES to teach! His program was cut at the local community college however, so he is back at work doing CNC lathe work in town. Still loves his work- and is always - always! reading and learning new things about manufacturing. And he gets so exicted and happy when the company is buying a new machine:)

He has watched the Iconoclast program with Dean Kamen at least three times - I first saw the program and knew he would love that big piece of machinery (I can't remember exactly what it is) in Dean's house! He just loves that stuff:) and Mr. Kamen's enthusisasm and joy about his projects - makes you want to move to New Hampshire and work for him!