what would the ideal career be like?
One day Conan was thinking that if a person is really passionate about something, say photography or writing or something, he shouldnt take it as a career because he would then get obliged to it, tied to it as part of his liveliihood. Whereas if he does something else, then he can be free to do photography exactly whenever he feels like it or not if he dosent.
It sounded quite reasonable actually, but recently, I was wondering maybe if he *does* take up something else as a livelihood, then life becomes so hectic, that he finds he never finds the time to do ever do this particular thing at all! except if he speculates that “some day” he’ll earn “enough” money to be able to resign and pursue his hobby seriously. And we know that this “some day” and “enough” are usually very dynamic parameters 😉
Incidentally I was reminded of this because of a friend’s daughter who wanted to take music as her profession but her parents were concerned that she had not yet had even a degree for her education.
(As for me, I was pretty happy with software and programming when I started with it, now I’m just wondering whether its reduced but havent decided anything yet.)
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