Do you make money doing the thing you love?

Lord-Barrington · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by Thomas

Same here. The issue for me is that what I love doing doesn't pay very well at all. And, I love doing many things, but none are the sort of thing that provides a stable flow of lucre.

Same here. I love film, ice hockey, travelling, the arts, food, etc.

Anything in there pay well (aside from hockey which, unfortunately, I'm not talented enough to play professionally)?

Connemara · Mar 20, 2011

Sort of. I'm in the right field/industry, but my actual position isn't the most thrilling.

Lord-Barrington · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by Connemara

Sort of. I'm in the right field/industry, but my actual position isn't the most thrilling.

Let me guess:

Industry: Adult entertainment
Position: Fluffer

Connemara · Mar 20, 2011

Gotta start somewhere.

cretaceous_cretin · Mar 20, 2011

Don't like what I do, but it pays well enough that I have plenty of F/O time.

StephenHero · Mar 20, 2011

There are very few professionals whose jobs I'm envious of, but tennis pros at filthy rich country clubs in the suburbs of Philadelphia would be one of them.

christinedaae · Mar 20, 2011

I do now. Everyday is a weekday to me now, seriously I could care less what day it is. But to get to the point, I had to do something for about almost a decade that I would cry sometimes I hated it so much. But sometimes you just have to do what has to be done to get where you want to get.

skywalker · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by DerekS

I sell industrial dumpsters. what do you think?!?! haha

on a related note, my father has been "working for the man" for the past 25 years. He was a full time musician and a few years after i was born he got a day job and quit playing full time. Well, last week he quit his office job to take a contract playing music full time. more money, half the hours, and he's finally doing what he was born to do. needless to say im prud of the feller. A career change at 50 years old.

what a profession.

globetrotter · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by DerekS

I sell industrial dumpsters. what do you think?!?! haha

.

what I sell isn't much more exciting, in terms of a product. I love my work because of the intellectual challenges - B2B selling of big ticket items is like a complex chess game with large amounts of money involved, in my case, you throw in the international aspect and it becomes even more challenging.

wootx · Mar 20, 2011

I've purposely chosen a field I have no interest in, fearing I wouldn't have liked what I used to love anymore oncedoing it for a living. Will see how it turns out.

housie · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by globetrotter

what I sell isn't much more exciting, in terms of a product. I love my work because of the intellectual challenges - B2B selling of big ticket items is like a complex chess game with large amounts of money involved, in my case, you throw in the international aspect and it becomes even more challenging.

Can I ask how you got into that sort of sales? Did you start out selling paper or something?

Milpool · Mar 20, 2011

Any semblance of passion or love for my career has been thoroughly and brutally beaten out of me over the years. Ultimately, I have realized that I wasted my life, and that quite possibly, the decisions I made as early as undergrad have forced me into a life that I may not be able to escape, and thus, I'll live a miserable life.

My attempts to leave the industry have been met by interviewers with serious doubts about whether or not I am capable of doing anything else.

globetrotter · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by housie

Can I ask how you got into that sort of sales? Did you start out selling paper or something?

I had a skill, and taught that skill to people buying relevant equipment, then I got involved in the business side of the selling. once I had been selling that for a while, I shifted to something else, then again and again.

in my case, I tried to get a lot of experience in different territories, which helped me out.

Stylego · Mar 20, 2011

Originally Posted by Milpool

Any semblance of passion or love for my career has been thoroughly and brutally beaten out of me over the years. Ultimately, I have realized that I wasted my life, and that quite possibly, the decisions I made as early as undergrad have forced me into a life that I may not be able to escape, and thus, I'll live a miserable life.

My attempts to leave the industry have been met by interviewers with serious doubts about whether or not I am capable of doing anything else.

You must be an engineer...

hooya2 · Mar 20, 2011

indeed, I do

Do you make money doing the thing you love?

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