those crazy, deranged fools…

Yes I am!! Oh yes yes yes! I am currently working on the plan of:
1. pursue opportunities with every fibre of being
2. continue honing the craft
3. pray
…plus remindng myself repeatedly that this learning to live simply is the side benefit of walking away from better money:)
I love your blog!

Oh yeah…
would I be reading your sh** otherwise?
I like to sum it up as:
HAVE TO versus WANT TO – Purpose yields meaning.

I’m nearly one of them (love my job but still like the money it comes with). But my wife is one of them – she’d work for free, hell she nearly does ;-).
Her gig? Child photographer. Clients ring her in tears, they’ve been so moved by her shots. http://www.sarahgardan.com/blog

I think it’s a lot easier to find that meaning (real or not) if you work for yourself…

Oh yeah – I would totally do my job for free. I LOVE making people happy. Seriously. It makes waking up, sometimes at crazy hours, and the physical labor and weariness that sometimes comes with it – worth it all.
I have the best job in the world. Right now… sometimes I can’t pay the rent on time – but I am cool with that. It’s much better then having a “job”.

I am not one of them. That’s why I paint

In a couple of years I should be there.
My investments should enable me to lead a simple life with lots of time for projects that I really really want to do. (said he naively, right before the new Great Depression devoured all his assets)

I’m working about 30 hours a week on top of my “day job” so that one day I’ll be able to do the work I love.
I’m currently doing the extra hours for free, so I’m kind of one of them.
Gotta pay the bills though.

Yep. I’ve always wanted to open a large-scale theatre show, and I’m doing it on salary. Also pursuing my other love of libraries and digital media by going to school in the evenings. Crazy, yes. Perfect strangers have told me so. Would I have it any other way. No way in hell.

I would love to make my living as an author (first novel due out later this year) and that’s been me dream since I first learned to fold sheets of A4 paper together to make a “book”. But I know what the odds of that are.
So I worked hard and got my masters degree so that I could get a job I wanted to do. I can’t imagine any worse hell than spending all day doing something I hate. I don’t have high career aspirations. I don’t dream of climbing the corporate ladder. So long as I have a job the interests me, I will be happy. It may not be my ultimate dream, but my job is often fun, I work with people I like and I’m still uncovering the range of challenges that lie ahead of me to keep me interested.
Unless someone offers me the Booker prize or a multi-million pound book contract, I will be more than happy to keep coming into work every morning and doing my job.

I’m afraid I can’t be a CDF. I’ve tried to make money doing what I love and invariably it turns my passion into a chore. And you can’t price your passion objectively because it’s more valuable to you than your potential customer, which makes it even harder to make the ducets. One of the reasons I love to do certain things is because I don’t have to do them to survive. Goal driven people are much better at making a living off of their passion, but I like a separation of church and state. I have been lucky enough to find A) something I am good at doing, B) something that I don ‘t hate to do, and C) something that makes good money. So I work as much as I need to to sustain my lifestyle and fund my many passions. That is the tightrope, to keep from working too much at your “job” so that you still have time for the things you like to do.

Hey,
I agree with the poster above me, for some people its very hard to combine things that you like to do with something you have to do to survive/make money from. Many things are just fun because you don’t have to do them! And if you ask me today if I would continue doing my current job if I win the lottery I would probably say no, but if it would happen I would maybe feel different. Because probably it would be much nicer to do it I wouldn’t have to. makes sense?:-)
Just a thought…
Greta Post, though!