Success is Doing What You Love and Making it a Career
Do You Love Your Job?
I love what I do. I hate the endless paperwork, though.
Yes. I write nice things about love and life, listen to my clients' stories of their romance, and then celebrate their love, usually barefoot on the beach at sunset. I'm self employed and choose my own hours and standards. I love it!
My last clients took me out for a beer, so kinda part of the job, but I'll pass on the cat pictures.
I teach Nutritional Studies while Ubering to get the story out.
I do. I am very fortunate that way. And it's a good thing too, because it's by far the major way that I've been consistently fortunate in life, and thus the main part of my existence that doesn't have a Sisyphean aspect to it.
I wish I could ascribe it to brilliance and talent, but there is a large element of dumb luck to it. It's very absurd to me because I never tried very hard or cared too much in the professional realm, but here I am anyway. And the stuff I really cared about ... different story. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere.
And if you do it for money, doesn't it become work?
@maturin1919 but IF I have a deadline, and pressure, then it becomes work. I love to make quilts and sew. I love it because it relaxes me, and it is fun. I can go in an work on a quilt for however long I have and enjoy it. IF I have a deadline it becomes less fun. I have to make time to work on it. It becomes something else to be ticked off a list. If I have to sell that quilt to make money so I can afford to do the next quilt, then there is another hurdle. And if I am making a quilt to someone else's color and pattern choices... I made a quilt for new grandson, would never have chosen the colors but that was the colors the baby's mama wanted. I'm glad I did, they love it and use it, but is not my favorite project. As for my current job, yes there are things I love about it, like the paycheck and benefits, and I help people. Downside is pressure, stress and sometimes people are just freaking mean and crabby even when you're doing the right things. Definitely work