I find this to be quite an interesting read. Sharing it with you people.

How do you turn passion into a career? (and should you?)

Been pretty busy today – busy troubleshooting other people’s problems. Hahhaa. Will only come out with a post tomorrow. Sorry for that.

And if you’re lazy to read through, here’s the summary of the process, courtesy of the blog.

So, go through this thought process:

1. I’ve identified my passion as X. I am now going to define X as fully as possible. For X to be X, it MUST include A and B. C is optional. It can’t include D.
2. I’ve realized that I won’t be happy unless I’m doing X for a living.
3. Are there any jobs that will allow me to do X as I’ve defined it? (Or that will let me gradually work towards a pure version of X?)
4. If not, then I need to either brainstorm other ways I could be happy (compromised X? doing X as a hobby?) or resign myself to unhappiness.
5. If so, then I need to make sure I can live with non-X aspects of the job. (Wow! I can do full time, paid theatre, but I’d have to work with the dreaded Mr.Y!)

Try to go to the blog for a read. It’s really quite a good post.

Hope it helps.