Comments on: Who does what they want?

By: JV

JV — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:26:05 +0000

> Or maybe you just want to know the same things I do.

I will definitely be trackbacking this later today.

What I’m focusing on right now is, what does it take for the passion to overcome the dollar signs? I’m not just being materialistic when I say that it would be HARD to give up my salary. How do you go to your family and say ’sorry guys, you’re going to have to work more and have less because I’m tired of working for the man.’

And don’t give me any of this ‘if they love you, they’ll support you’ tripe. If YOU love THEM, you make sacrifices. Like JD said, you can’t always get what you want.

Or, alternatively, how do you make the jump without having to give up the dollar signs?

One part devil’s advocate, two parts realist…

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:31:21 +0000

JV - an excellent extension of things I probably meant to say but didn’t elaborate on.

In the absence of knowledge from those who absolutely know, I think at least part of the answer to our questions is a massive amount of conviction.

By: Zack Scott

Zack Scott — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:24:02 +0000

Bryan, what are you really passionate about? I’m passionate about a lot of my hobbies, but I’m just unsure as to how to expand my hobbies so that they provide me with income without becoming dull.

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stark raving calm » Six-Month Checkup — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:53:12 +0000

[…] Doing what you love has become something of a meme in the blogosphere. The sermons at church this month have been about knowing God’s will for life decisions. It’s even turned up on Slashdot. All the buzz eventually kept me awake wondering what my next step should be. I know I want to write, but I’m no closer to knowing what sort of writing I want to do. Writing for one of the bigger sites I read would be a blast. In fact, I applied to one of them. Didn’t make the cut, this time, but at least I was in a position to try — thanks to this blog. That’s a form of progress, I guess. […]