The Art of Building a Fulfilling Career - Turn a Passion into a Lucrative Occupation

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May I suggest to anyone needing to feed their creativity that no matter where you work, you are working for yourself. Years ago I had a manager angrily shout "you work for me, and you do what I say." I replied "No sir. I work FOR me and mine, I work AT UPS. If I continue to choose to do so then yes I do what you instruct." I'm working on breaking out of Shawshank, but in my mind and heart I'm still working for me, my family, and my goals. The words we choose hold a lot of weight in our subconscious. Making more and more time to get to the drawing board.

I actually did turn my passion into a career. I loved sewing and so became a bridal seamstress. At first I loved it. It was so much fun working on different dresses. But after seven years, the initial glamour has worn off, and especially this past year, the stress of the job has been too much to handle. I haven't sewn for pleasure in a really long time, and anytime someone calls me for a "side gig" I turn them away because the last thing I want to do during my time off is more bridal alterations. So I have just quit my job in the bridal industry for a more "boring" job doing basic alterations on uniforms for kids at a local school. Sometimes turning your hobby into your career is the fastest way to kill your passion for it. Sometimes things are more enjoyable when you don't have to worry about it putting food on the table.

But I think "laziness" is often depression, disinterest or hopelessness. And I think this generation has a lot of valid reasons to be suffering all of the above. The so called spoiled kids who are lazy and play videogames all day instead of putting their energy and effort toward productive goals are suffering an addiction often caused by emotional neglect or some kind of trauma. Without addressing the root cause of that issue it's very hard to push them to be focused and disciplined.

Sometimes I convince myself to read instead of being on my phone, then I realize how much I learn in such a short hour. I then am horrified to kno how much life there is to love if I just applied myself.

Your doing the lord’s work. Thank you 🙏🏾

I may be working at a boring job but it helps me fuel my hobbies and passions so it makes it bearable and tolerable because I have something to look forward to.

I just started writing an epic fantasy novel, the idea for which I have developed over many months, with the initial spark coming years ago. I resisted starting for many years, making all kinds of excuses. I started writing it in earnest about two weeks ago. I'm choosing to use the timing of this video as a sign that I'm on the right track.

A strong sense of self is really important when working on personal projects alongside a wage-earning job. It’s easy to get lost in the undertow of: “if I was any good at ______, I wouldn’t be working here.” After I left college, I worked for a few years as a barista. It was fun but ultimately left me feeling cognitively underwhelmed. So I took the opportunity to start painting murals around my city and was able to paint several murals in a couple of years. It was the perfect balance of part-time income and enough free time to pursue big creative projects. More importantly, I stopped feeling like being a barista wasn’t important work because I had developed a stronger sense of self worth. Then I got a “big girl” job which paid more but the full-time hours drastically reduced the amount of time I could spend cultivating my art skills and pursuing opportunities to paint. Even though I was doing more prestigious work, I lost so much by minimizing my personal time. Always remember— your income does not equal your potential or your self worth!

One important factor not addressed in this video as pertaining to the Don't Quit and do you passion as a hobby side -- As a full time employee, you're drained at the end of the day, at the end of the week... And a lot of people work more than full time. Being drained like that doesn't leave room for the side hustle, no matter how determined you are. You only have a limited amount of juice to give to either. If that juice runs out at 43 hours a week and you work 40, not much you can do... at least in experience.

With the advances in technology over the past 50 years, the 30 hour work week should be the norm. More time for hobbies, even for those who can't make their pasión into a career.

Goal setting is an economic tool, not a means to understand one's self. Passion has been manipulated into working for a system, but passion is far more than that. A person who doesn't first have a passion for knowing, for truth, is someone who can only ply their passion meaninglessly. But the tower of babel will shatter.

I want to be a musician. The last couple days I've been discouraged and thinking about giving it up. I needed this, thank you.

This video really hits home for me! I’ve realized that we’ve really gotten trapped into working for corporations and getting thrown into cubicles. 100 years ago most of the population worked for themselves and life was a lot more satisfying. There is nothing satisfying working for some giant machine of a company that doesn’t know you or care to know you. They trap us with benefits, pay, and promises of retiring one day. They offer all of these benefits because they don’t want people to realize their own dreams and follow their passion. I can’t say it enough when I say that everyone needs to get a passion project. And when you’re not working your 9-5 keep watering that passion project and it can become self serving. Doing your passion as your job should be the dream of every sensible person. I realized that standup comedy was a passion of mine, so every day when I get off work I’m either writing comedy, preforming, or contacting venues to get my next booking. If I don’t treat my passion as a full time job now it will never become my full time job

One of the most concerns about finding a fulfilling career is that we may be afraid to fail. We all have passions and talents willing to be turned into our everyday job. However, we still doubt if what we truly enjoy doing is not satisfactory enough for everybody else. That's why we'd rather go to our very same work every single day. We don't pursue our passion enough because we still don't believe in ourselves. Once we gather enough courage to recognize our talents as authentic, then we are ready to let the world know about our existence.

Now this is a great idea, be bold or grow dull, a muscle not used atrophies.

Actually, I love my job. It's very flexible and allows me to have time for myself throughout the day. I've always been incredibly goal orientated so I have lots of things I do for myself and this job helps. I can honestly say I've been lucky when it comes to work.

Another great and much needed video! Thank you. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” Would you you agree or disagree?

In my personal experience the hobbyist approach works best if the side job is in the same field as the life purpose if not it’s very easy to become too busy or too tired to work on your purpose during your free time because you want to rest or the money is good enough for you to not experience any financial strife so you could end up becoming too comfortable to pursue the life’s work. Right now I’m all in and although the financial hardship kills me from time to time it’s still better than working at some slave plantation that requires me to wear a mask and be vaccinated for an illness I know was manufactured to further enslave us, I’ll die on my feet before my knees good buddy

This drops the same time I am planning on quoting my boring job.. thanks! 🙌🏼