You decided not to try and make your passion your job - why?
December 29, 2014 4:24 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for anecdotes and personal experiences about turning away from making 'what you love' your career when initially you wanted to make your passion your job. When and why did you make this choice?
It's related to the whole 'live to work/work to live' discussion that's happened here a few times. I can't find the exact link but I think I recall posters talking about how they changed their mind about wishing to pursue their passions and talents as their primary way of earning a wage. I'm really interested in stories here from actors, musicians, writers, painters and others in the arts, (or in academia, or in any highly competitive and over-glamorised industry) in particular.
I'd love to hear from those of you who decided not to pursue your passions as jobs and why. Especially if you did give it a go for a while and then decided 'enough'. I'm trying to gather some stories of what the 'real' experience of working in these industries was like - what it really meant to try and be an actor or a photographer or a fashion designer or what have you and how you found your tipping point and moved on/changed your mind. Are you happier now you aren't trying to 'do what you love' for a living? What were the best and worst things about trying to do what you love for a career?
Thanks guys - really curious to hear personal stories.
It's related to the whole 'live to work/work to live' discussion that's happened here a few times. I can't find the exact link but I think I recall posters talking about how they changed their mind about wishing to pursue their passions and talents as their primary way of earning a wage. I'm really interested in stories here from actors, musicians, writers, painters and others in the arts, (or in academia, or in any highly competitive and over-glamorised industry) in particular.
I'd love to hear from those of you who decided not to pursue your passions as jobs and why. Especially if you did give it a go for a while and then decided 'enough'. I'm trying to gather some stories of what the 'real' experience of working in these industries was like - what it really meant to try and be an actor or a photographer or a fashion designer or what have you and how you found your tipping point and moved on/changed your mind. Are you happier now you aren't trying to 'do what you love' for a living? What were the best and worst things about trying to do what you love for a career?
Thanks guys - really curious to hear personal stories.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, as framed this is pretty much chatfilter; if there's something more concrete here than "just curious", you need to give it another go and make it a lot clearer why you're asking or what you're trying to solve. -- cortex
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