Make Money Doing What You Love

Life’s Too Short - Don’t Spend It Doing Something You Hate. I can’t think of anyone I know personally with a “regular” job who doesn’t want to be doing something else for a living.

Sid sells computers, but he wants to become a productivity trainer for businesses. He would be good at it, too. He has studied it for years – it’s his passion. Frank is a rep for a ophthalmology products company, but reads consumer reports like other people read novels. He would love to start a consumer alert service. Christine is an audiologist, but dreams of putting her natural gifts as a gourmet chef to work in her own catering business. Lenny is an attorney. He wants to start a wilderness camp for troubled youth. He has worked as a volunteer helping kids most of his life and is a very effective mentor.When you think about it, it’s sad when people don’t do what they want to do or what they feel they should be doing.

After all, we all have just one life to live. What a tragedy, what a waste that people like Sid, Frank, Christine, Lenny and the many millions of others like them are spending their lives working at jobs they hate. It makes the work week awfully long and the weekends terribly short. Sometimes it makes life unbearable.

I also know several people who have broken free. They have left the traditional world of nine-to-five employment, either gradually or cold-turkey, and are now pursuing their dreams. They are a minority, but a happy one.

Take Oliver, for example. When his job as a real estate developer dried up because his employer had health problems, he decided to get out of real estate altogether and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a professional freelance writer. In less than two months he was making more money than he had ever made before. Not too long ago his first book was published and he suddenly found himself thrust into a role he had previously only dreamed about – answering invitations to do book signings at major book stores, giving speeches and being interviewed on the radio.

Janet was a clerical worker with a passion for painting home interiors. She sometimes wondered whether it was a flaw in her character thatmade her love what most people hated. She started doing small jobs after hours on the side and soon had more business than she could handle.
Today she has two teams of painters who she keeps working and herclients have to wait months to get scheduled with her – which they gladly do because of the quality of her work. She does the challenging or particularly artistic painting herself, and still loves it as much as ever.

Lisa was a housewife who hadn’t worked since she began having children. But when her husband lost his job she realized she needed to go to work to help the family pay their bills. She could have gotten work in an office, but instead decided to try to make money doing what she had a burning passion for: quilting. She now teaches quilting classes and sells her quilts. She is recognized as one of the finest and most artistic quilters in the region, and her unique and exquisite quilts have a ready market and bring a high price.

Tim was a partner and controller of one of the largest construction companies in the western United States. He walked into the office one day and said he was quitting. He wanted to pursue his art talents. Everyone thought he was crazy until he had a major show that was very well received by critics and the public alike, and was featured in a major newspaper article as one of the most promising art talents on the national scene.

You can do it too...

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