Doing what you love for money. Yes or no?
I'm curious how you see it. I was lucky to always do what I enjoyed, and somehow it also brought me money. I have had an entrepreneurial mindset since I was 16, and I always thought it was the path to true freedom. But is it really? The problem with things we love is that they can captivate us so much that we don’t know when to stop. It’s great as long as we feel passion, but what if that passion suddenly fades and we are left alone because we forgot about family, friends, other hobbies, and ourselves? Have you ever met someone who worked a 9 to 5 job and complained, but then discovered a new passion, like yoga, and suddenly considered getting certified to teach it? Planning to be their own boss and take control of their time. And what happened then? The first year or two, the excitement is huge. First students, first classes, it grows, it brings in money. Amazing. But what about three, four, five years later? They no longer practice just for themselves, but because they have to deliver lessons to clients who paid for them. Classes happen in the morning, late morning, and evening. They keep track of who comes and who doesn’t, handle marketing, prepay spaces, have to refund money if they get sick, and constantly worry about what will happen if their body suddenly fails completely. Where are those evenings when they could just say "See you tommorow" to their boss and be free to do whatever they wanted? Abandoning yourself as a bad boss, in my opinion, is one of the toughest tests of adulthood. Where am I going with this? You know the phrase never give up? It’s not always the right approach, and it’s not a failure at all if you abandon your own nonfunctional model, activity, or business and jump into the lifeboat. In my view, we don’t have to heroically die with a sinking ship. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up on the paradise island of our dreams and feel great with very little and beauty of nature again. PS: We create this world as @Saja Misolin says.