Anybody make a living doing what they love?

[Rambo45]

I'm so sick of the whole get a high paying job just to have status and a ton of money. I want to do something more, contribute in some way, serve sort of like how Jobs lived his life. He always advocated doing what he loved http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

I googled how to find what you love and this came up http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how-to-find-what-you-love-to-do/

I had an idea of opening a sort of spiritual bookstore but obviously Amazon is killing that idea. I just don't want to be like the majority of people who are just goign to jobs they hate just to survive. That's not living. That's just existing.

Anybody here able to "escape" the system and do what they love and survive?

[13th Warrior]

I have a book suggestion for you:

"Crush It"

In this book the author tackles this very subject and give you a road map to see it through.

[K626]

I'm so sick of the whole get a high paying job just to have status and a ton of money. I want to do something more, contribute in some way, serve sort of like how Jobs lived his life. He always advocated doing what he loved http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

I googled how to find what you love and this came up http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how-to-find-what-you-love-to-do/

I had an idea of opening a sort of spiritual bookstore but obviously Amazon is killing that idea. I just don't want to be like the majority of people who are just goign to jobs they hate just to survive. That's not living. That's just existing.

Anybody here able to "escape" the system and do what they love and survive?

You can do what you want, but you have to really work at it. Anything is possible, it really is.

The mind tends to project onto the world the things that you're interested in and this manifests situations (you have to learn to recognise them) that can help you on your way.

K

[Snoweagle]

will be soon

[Fred Ryan]

No, currently I do not make a living doing what I love. This, however, is my life's dream. Sometimes it feels so elusive and far off. Other times I can feel it right around the corner. However, in my heart I know it will happen, it's just a matter of time.

Good luck in your search.

[Vitalux]

I am doing what I love to do ....enjoying life.
I do not work, I am on welfare.
All I do is fish and phuck

and I don't fish much

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/beach-relax-feature.jpg

[Whippet]

Anybody here able to "escape" the system and do what they love and survive?
Yes. The more things you love, the easier it is.

[WhiteFeather]

After retiring from The Police Dept. carrying a gun and wearing a bullet proof vest. I know deliver flowers and plants to some beautiful people here in NYC. Yes I Must Say I do Love My Job. ;) Dungarees and Sneakers works out for me pretty nicely.

[meat suit]

I was always passionately driven to do interesting and unusual things,
luckily some of those activities turned out to be commercially viable (small scale)

I think the main reason for people not doing stuff they love, is a lack of passion... I dont know how to fix that....

[SKIBADABOMSKI]

I do indeed enjoy my job. I do this every weekend all year round. Now it's summer and I'm doing this everyday.

You'd be surprised at how many people frown at this type of work. Of course in my face they show respect but they wouldn't want me influencing their kids.. lol

It's a great escape from it all. I have helped hundreds of people get into this line of work. Especially in Japan. I think there are at least 75 performers now globe trotting from Japan that I helped from the start. Love seeing them live the life.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbHDjM_blbM&feature=plcp

Sorry to those that have already seen this ;)

Oh BTW I'm in Canada now.. I have 3 more festivals to go. Port Credit tomorrow and then Toronto and then Niagara Falls. I'm meeting a few members in Toronto.

Ski-

[Jackson]

yes I do!

I am a very successful "Sign Artist" on the Olympic Peninsula. I started doing what I love in 1979 after several years as a paid firefighter. Now I get up every morning and go next door to my studio and build beautiful signs and do murals and other odd pieces, I still use a brush to handletter and build all my own signs. I also have a beautiful place to live here in the Olympic Mountains. The straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and the Olympic National Park in my back yard............ Life cannot get any better than this.

[Jackson]

.......also I forgot to add my philosophy........"Do what you love....the money will always be there" Besides...it is never about the money...it is ALL about following your bliss!

Jackson

[enfoldedblue]

I am working towards this as well. I've got 'the doing what you love' part down perfectly...just need to get the 'make a living from it' part happening. I am mom to a three year old boy and taking care of him is (most of the time ;) ) a joy. But I am also an artist and writer, and really want to be able to make a decent living from these things. Right now I just keep following where my energy draws me, I spend a few days writing, then I get down on the floor and play with wire and wool and fabric etc and make some cool dolls, then I might feel to do some digital art....I call it the 'love experiment'...because I believe that the new paradigm that is emerging supports a position where we are in a natural flow, putting out what we love and getting back what we need. But we are in a transition period, so the old energy of having to compromise yourself for money is still weighing on our belief system.
I am lucky though because my partner has a great satisfying job that he loves (ecologist finding endangered plants and animals which protects these areas from being logged). Because his job takes care of our basic needs (we live very simply) I can pursue what I love.

[Fred Steeves]

I do indeed enjoy my job. I do this every weekend all year round. Now it's summer and I'm doing this everyday.

You'd be surprised at how many people frown at this type of work. Of course in my face they show respect but they wouldn't want me influencing their kids.. lol

It's a great escape from it all. I have helped hundreds of people get into this line of work. Especially in Japan. I think there are at least 75 performers now globe trotting from Japan that I helped from the start. Love seeing them live the life.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbHDjM_blbM&feature=plcp

Sorry to those that have already seen this ;)

Oh BTW I'm in Canada now.. I have 3 more festivals to go. Port Credit tomorrow and then Toronto and then Niagara Falls. I'm meeting a few members in Toronto.

Ski-

Damn Ski, that's awesome brother!!! No, I hadn't seen you in action before, thanks. Which one's you?

Cheers Mate,
Fred

P.S. If I had a kid, you could influence them any day. So how are you with dogs then? :p

[PurpleLama]

I sort of fell in to picture framing, and I have indeed learned to love it. It is just the day job however, and family, kitty cats, and podunk magic occupy my free time and receive the warmest fuzzy feelings, for sure. Lord knows what I do for a living isn't saving lives or anything noble, but when that little old lady comes in with a fifty year old picture of her dead husband, that picture is just as important to me as it is to her while she stands there selecting her framing materials, so in a way one could say I make a very big difference in a very small way. That is a general example, but you get the point. My attitude towards what I do is not at all what I am paid to do, I am paid to sell frames and manage the store, but my attitude does turn most of what I do into service to others, in a sense. It will do until the SHTF, or doesn't. Then I will make the quick shift from fRAmer to fARmer. Once I decided I had enough non perishable food stuff, I started throwing all my spare change at heirloom seeds. I am wandering off topic, so I will leave it at that.

[Conchis]

Yep....I'm a glassblower and I love it. I used to make a much much much better living doing something that I hated. My future is less certain doing this, because I will have far less saved up along the way to show for my journey, but that is just part of the journey as well. The fact that you've starting looking for the thing you love to do to make a living is a pretty good first step, I'd say. It's like taking the red or the blue pill....once you start the process of searching for it, it's not likely you'll stop. Good luck!

[Carmen]

Yes, I'm doing what I love to do. Living in the country, surrounded by animals and my family. Working toward being completely self sustaining. Pleasing myself how much I work or how little I work. Learning to farm holistically so the farm will actually make some money also. Plenty of space, nature. Lots of hands on work but that is satisfying. Most things just happen or manifest when I focus on them long enough. A sense of the miraculous which is a delight.

[SKIBADABOMSKI]

I'm the mancunian little **** ..lol (the white one) The mongolian moody monkey is my partner lol.. sorry 10 years working together.

I just noticed also in the video.. there is a clip where we are outside a cathedral, yes thats the one in Christchurch and we were performing in Feb 2011, later that week that steeple fell over onto that exact spot at about the same time of day we were performing. Incidentally we missed that earthquake by 48 hours.

It's a shame that I don't get a chance to speak to the audiences much. Last month I was bored and I was googling about and found a page about our show in Singapore and this girls mother had lost her husband and was house bound for nearly a year and was pretty ready to give up on life. The girl watched our show and then the next evening dragged her mother out to watch our show.
She said she never watched any of our performance that night because she was just watching her mothers laughter as she cried.

[Muzz]

Yes. 14 years in the fire service and still loving it. Took 2 years to get in and I took a big pay cut from being a telecoms engineer but it was worth it. I was at a point in life where it felt like there was no meaning. It was conscious intention to do something i was passionate about regardless of all the other options. Never looked back.

Funnily enough it eventually led me here to Avalon. When I watched 911 on the tv, I knew (because of my training) that something was fishy. Buildings dont just fall down like that. I began to dig ....next thing I'm watching Camelot videos....

As i assess how things have developed I wonder if its not so important what I ended up doing but the fact that I took control and decided to follow my heart rather than my head. That has led to me becoming aware of the ego and having a spiritual aspect to my life. I now realise this is an extremely important development. I think that is the lesson for me maybe., but still learning every day. :)

[Meesh]

Yes, I teach psychology at a community college. Love the work and the time off that it gives me to pursue other things.

[naochan]

Just like Carmen, I guess I am doing what I like to do. I live in a rural area of Ontario.

On top of listening to crickets and watching wild birds, I take care of two girls, driving school bus part-time, translate as a free-lancer, etc. Life here is quite slow but it is full of natural beauty.

Of course, I grew up in suburban Tokyo, I miss "city" occasionally, then I go down to a big city, driving 1 hour from here.

Or once in a while, we'll go visit a great Bit City, like Toronto. (Our girls are looking forward to seeing your performance in Toronto Buskerfest, Ski!) ;)

naomi

P.S. I started learning Shiatsu treatment. That's my passion nowadays.:cool:

[nottelling]

I'm finally doing what I love, three years after dropping out of my previous career and the mainstream. I spent the past three years moving around from place to place, bartering my skills for food and accommodation via the WWOOFer community while working on my new career at night.

Apart from a steady stream of casual relationships, I don't have a significant other, nor kids to worry about. Were I stuck in the traditional family environment, I wouldn't have been able to do things the way they have been done. That is the trap which has been set for all of us. I wish I'd followed my own path years ago rather than tried to fit in with society's boring and meaningless "norms". I was unknowingly just another financial pillar helping to prop up the current system of exploitation and control.

If and when I ever procreate, I'll be encouraging my kids to follow their heart, think deeply about what they do and never settle just for the paycheque.

[nearing]

I do indeed enjoy my job. I do this every weekend all year round. Now it's summer and I'm doing this everyday.

You'd be surprised at how many people frown at this type of work. Of course in my face they show respect but they wouldn't want me influencing their kids.. lol

It's a great escape from it all. I have helped hundreds of people get into this line of work. Especially in Japan. I think there are at least 75 performers now globe trotting from Japan that I helped from the start. Love seeing them live the life.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbHDjM_blbM&feature=plcp

Sorry to those that have already seen this ;)

Oh BTW I'm in Canada now.. I have 3 more festivals to go. Port Credit tomorrow and then Toronto and then Niagara Falls. I'm meeting a few members in Toronto.

Ski-

Ski, do you know Martin Ewen, he is a friend and in your line of work.

[nearing]

This is a very important question for me. (existential is my damn middle name)

I have a job that I wouldn't say I love. BUT - there are many aspects of my job that I do love.

I get paid to help people. REALLY help people.

While there are many aspects of my job that require me to jump through hoops, for the most part, I get to bring my knowledge of many non-corporate modalities of healing and health into my one-on-one patient-to-provider visits that I KNOW will make a profound difference to them and their daily living and longevity that they WILL NOT receive from any other provider they see.

THIS makes me smile. I sleep very soundly at night knowing that I am somewhat of a stealth health provider, making less for Big Pharma than 99.99% of my colleagues while truly helping my patients live happier, healthier lives.

I am beginning to carve out a very unique niche for myself in a field that I thought would surely kill my soul. ROTFLMAO!

[Carmody]

I'm so sick of the whole get a high paying job just to have status and a ton of money. I want to do something more, contribute in some way, serve sort of like how Jobs lived his life. He always advocated doing what he loved http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

I googled how to find what you love and this came up http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how-to-find-what-you-love-to-do/

I had an idea of opening a sort of spiritual bookstore but obviously Amazon is killing that idea. I just don't want to be like the majority of people who are just goign to jobs they hate just to survive. That's not living. That's just existing.

Anybody here able to "escape" the system and do what they love and survive?

work gets done 7 times as well when someone one is doing what they love vs something they strongly dislike.

Which is the reason that the PTB like to use lies to start wars and appeal to patriotism, god, and duty: To make people efficient,and efficent workers when those people become the arm and motion of the PTB's war machine.

[SKIBADABOMSKI]

Hi nearing,

Yes I have heard of him. He's a stilt guy I think. I don't recall ever meeting him but I read a lot of his posts on performers.net. He knows everyone I know and I know everyone he knows type of thing. I think I recall seeing a vid of him chasing people down the street on stilts. And I'm guessing he's from the US or Canada because his good buddies are all in that crowd. Quite old school I think. Been around the block type of guy. Sorry thats all I can recall on that name.

We all meet eventually, somewhere.

Ski-

Hold on I think he came to Japan once.. I'll have to do a search on him.

[lookbeyond]

Hello , im a nurse (RN) and love my job, wanted to do this from my mid teens, am constantly inspired by people i meet, and experience love and joy thru this type of work, there is also my fair share of frustration(dont get me started!!) and sorrow that comes with the territory- but what a learning curve and i think its all good for the soul. I fit this paid job in around my unpaid job of raising my children:juggle:

[ulli]

I was once a designer and had my own fashion company. Money came in faster than I could count it.
Yet I somehow knew it wasn't what I wanted to do. Then in 1980 I discovered astrology, and I knew I had found my calling.
I closed the business, moved to Barbados and the earnings stopped. Astrology doesn't pay. Two clients a week is too little income to live on.
I invested my money in properties and have some income from the rents...I make jewelry to pay for my travel tickets.
It's something I love doing.
Spend most of my time now nurturing the Here and Now thread at Avalon.. zero earnings, but chatting with the friends is pure bliss.

[joelmags]

Yup! Did that about 38 yrs ago. I was 20. Had nothing but a dream. Had an inkling that money was just paper. Had to be a producer. Its been rough. Hit bottom dozens of times. So what?

"So what?" is the best question.

[modwiz]

Yes. I am a massage therapist who loves what I do and take a couple of months off every year to heal up.

[nearing]

Hi nearing,

Yes I have heard of him. He's a stilt guy I think. I don't recall ever meeting him but I read a lot of his posts on performers.net. He knows everyone I know and I know everyone he knows type of thing. I think I recall seeing a vid of him chasing people down the street on stilts. And I'm guessing he's from the US or Canada because his good buddies are all in that crowd. Quite old school I think. Been around the block type of guy. Sorry thats all I can recall on that name.

We all meet eventually, somewhere.

Ski-

Hold on I think he came to Japan once.. I'll have to do a search on him.

Haha! Yes, he is a stilt guy! And mime. Very old school. I think he is originally from England but now lives in Vancouver. I have seen him perform (Toronto Buskers) and it is amazing! We are also friends, hang with a similar mind set crowd on an international level.

What a small world!

----edit: I take that back, he is from New Zealand and now lives in HI! ( had to sneak a peek at his info, I had forgotten)

[Chester]

I got lucky... I used to be a professional gambler. After losing all I had (professionally - haha) and finding myself owing a bunch of bookies, one of them one day asked me if I wanted a job. The next thing I knew, I learned the art of odds making. Been doing that for over 20 years now and it has taken me all over the world. I love my... what's the word, my passion - and I feel blessed it supports my family and me along the way. justone

[RunningDeer]

After 27 years of teaching (which I loved, loved, loved) it hit me in May, 2004, that it was time to leave. That huge life changing decision went something like this:

Mind - “Woman, what do you thing you are doing? Are you nuts?”
Emotions - butterflies and excitement
Higher Self - peaceful, inner knowing, new leg of the journey

My life goal became a search for the “State of Peace”. (I now know it's been there all along. I just had to clear the space to see it.) By the middle June, 2004, I left the clock-world. I walked away from the security of a job and chose to live a small, fulfilled life. So the label is “retired” with a small business in my apartment. I spend most of my waking days in reflections, reading, writing, Tai Chi, walks, all the stuff that everyone else does, but now have more time to do it.

There’s a next coming... It’s still writing itself...

[shadowstalker]

Anybody make a living doing what they love?
Not till I get my divorce, he aint nabbin any of my dough

[TraineeHuman]

Happiness isn't a reaction to anything. It's something you create or find inside you, and then bring to whatever you may do.

The way I see it, the biggest challenge of our life on this planet is to learn not to let the garbage and the junk and so on affect how we are on the inside.

Otherwise, as Carmody indicated, a person spends most of their energy fighting themselves, because they're fighting against whatever they're doing, at the same time as doing that very thing.

[Laurel]

I love what I do. I'm a commercial and residential lighting expert.

And I definitely don't make as much as I should for how hard I work.

[Jake]

I love playing mee guitar,,, I have made more mulah sitting and playing in public, than I made otherwise, (in 2011...) I LOVE playing mee guitar... so, I guess I DO make a living (at least in part) doing what I love... :)

If I had my way, I'd be making my ENTIRE living off of playing mee guitar...

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?4370-Project-Avalon-Members-music-thread&p=218890&viewfull=1#post218890

[Earth Angel]

just got home after spending 12 hours setting up a booth for a show that will be 18 days, 12 hours a day at the show, 3 hours commuting back and forth.......exhausted, but love working with my husband .......selling his art........so yea, I love it, don't always make enough but nothing else I would rather be doing.......wish me luck!

[woodshreder]

In 1997 I made music my fulltime career. I am so lucky to have been blessed with many opportunities to perform all over the US with some amazingly talented musicians and artists. In 2004 I gave up touring with a band that was performing over 300 shows a year to become my mothers fulltime caregiver,she passed in 2007 .. I wouldn't trade that time ,with her ,for anything
Being a musician isn't the most financially rewarding job ,is a rollercoaster of professional highs and lows,but its something I can't get enough of ,and is one of the things that I feel a soul level connection too
Music can and does bring out the best in all of us. The song reminds us of our past ,present and can have an profound affect on our future. It can bring out suppresed emotions long forgotten and can develop feelings we didn't know we had .
It's a universal language shared by all of humanity ..I am beyond grateful
........Peace, Always Peace

[ghostrider]

I wish. imagine the passion released when you can focus your energy into something that means something to you ...

[David Trd1]

I used to think i was doing what i loved,i worked for an environmental and wildlife charity in the UK,in the management side of things,nice salary,easy to get motivated.It was my dream job for a while ut everything is finite,except ourselves that is:).Alas even there i was overworked,bogged down in bureaucratic nonsense and stressed.Didn`t feel right.

So i chucked it.

Moved ''down unda'',bought a campervan with my beautiful Lady and spin around from beach to bush enjoying good food,birdsong,meeting similar folk from all walks of life,young and old and campfires.I pick up casual work here and there for a few weeks if i need some cash,picking fruit and that,outdoors and fun.Living each day as it comes and making sure the only concern i have is keeping a smile on my face and travel.For now it fits,and that will do.

I will re-integrate,partially,sometime in the future maybe but this time it will be on my terms with happiness as my core motivation.

Why waste our time on something we don`t ''feel'' when we do it,the past is just a memory,the future is a figment of your thoughts yet to be built and that just leaves the present.On that basis i try to enjoy that as much as is humanly possible.

Take the plunge,its always worth it.:)

Peace.

[ED209]

I am most definitely not making a living doing what I love. I have tons of work to do in theatre and arts journalism, but I never get paid. Publications don't pay excellent writers any more because so many bad and mediocre writers are willing to write for free. So I end up working for free all of the time. I usually do 30-40 hours of free work a week just so I can maintain my connections in the faint hope that someone might actually hire me for a paid position. It really, really sucks and sends me in to long bouts of depression. I too was told to do what I love because the money would eventually come, but that has not happened for me at all. I work very hard, have made a name and good reputation for myself, and stay active in my field, but still nothing!

I also love dogs very, very much. I can heal them when they are sick just by touching them. My friend told me I should try to earn money from this, but that doesn't sound right to me. I wouldn't want to take money from people who are so desperate that they turn to something as precarious as doggy faith healing.

I keep on thinking that any day now, things will get better, but I have been saying that for years already and have accepted that I am going to have to just forget my degree and skills and just take any job doing anything. :-(

[nottelling]

I am most definitely not making a living doing what I love. I have tons of work to do in theatre and arts journalism, but I never get paid. Publications don't pay excellent writers any more because so many bad and mediocre writers are willing to write for free. So I end up working for free all of the time. I usually do 30-40 hours of free work a week just so I can maintain my connections in the faint hope that soneone might actually hire me for a paid position. It really, really sucks and sends me in to long bouts of depression. I too was told to do what I love because the money would eventually come, but that has not happened for me at all. I work very hard, have made a name and good reputation for myself, and stay active in my field, but still nothing!

I also love dogs very, very much. I can heal them when they are sick just by touching them. My friend told me I should try to earn money from this, but that doesn't sound right to me. I wouldn't want to take money from people who are so desperate that they turn to something as precarious as doggy faith healing.

I keep on thinking that any day now, things will get better, but I have been saying that for years already and have accepted that I am going to have to just forget my degree and skills and just take any job doing anything. :-(

Don't give up on your dream, ED.

I have a theory that the harder things get, the closer you are. :)

[jackovesk]

Hello , im a nurse (RN) and love my job, wanted to do this from my mid teens, am constantly inspired by people i meet, and experience love and joy thru this type of work, there is also my fair share of frustration(dont get me started!!) and sorrow that comes with the territory- but what a learning curve and i think its all good for the soul. I fit this paid job in around my unpaid job of raising my children :juggle:

I think 'Nursing' is one of the most 'Noble' Professions on the planet...

It should be the public 'Thanking Nurses for their Service' instead of the military...:yes4:

If you are like me and had several lengthy stays in hospital, you too would realise just how important 'Nurses' actually are...:yes4:

So I say to you"Lookbeyond - 'Thankyou for your Service"...

God Bless You...:)

[lookbeyond]

:high5:Thankyou jackovesk- on behalf of many

[DarMar]

I'm so sick of the whole get a high paying job just to have status and a ton of money. I want to do something more, contribute in some way, serve sort of like how Jobs lived his life. He always advocated doing what he loved http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/j...bs-061505.html

I googled how to find what you love and this came up http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how...ou-love-to-do/

I had an idea of opening a sort of spiritual bookstore but obviously Amazon is killing that idea. I just don't want to be like the majority of people who are just goign to jobs they hate just to survive. That's not living. That's just existing.

Anybody here able to "escape" the system and do what they love and survive?

In my whole life i didn't dedicated one split second to some ideology to have tons of money, to drive car, to have nice secure job and such. But i always worked and worked alot with much love towards ideas that i was developing. Never did stayed on one curse of job for longer than 2 years, except animation that one took me 3 years :) it was fun to do! untill i discovered it is a money laundring system here in Cro.
If i would just start to number thing what i did through my life many wouldnt believe range and what kind of response i got from it. Formula for me was ever easy, it needs to involve LOVE and lotta of love, no worries, no fears, no wanting... just pur curiosity and play and love towards job youre doing and yourself.

The difference is i dont look at job as: i need to have something to earn money to survive ... NO! i would rather starve to death! and im dead serious in that.
My point of view was: id rather do something that would develop my senses, brain or understanding, help someone else and always striving for higher and higher.

Why do people think they will die if they don't obey? from where such fear comes me wonders often.
I've been doing from nursing old people, construction works, music recording in studio, videomontage, animation, programming, playing music, seller in a shop .. hey i like to test grounds and sense for myself and gather better experience that way.
most funny part every single artistic fieldi touched was awarded by some festival or institution .. i bet crucial part of all that was loving what i do and involving a great part of intuitive drive into it.

i have real hard time to obey at any point in life, same goes for "must's" in life of any kind. That goes from very young age as i felt ever since started goint to school that was a bunch of cr@p. So if in any point of feeling bored in middle of school class i felt bored i would go through class and laugh at other kids and throw their books through window ... that resulted in me changing few schools every now and than :D

But that's exactly how it is today. I would never accept any agreement that takes any part of my freedom in any sense. Even if i was bully at school and kicked alot of slave kids and laughed at them, and did learned nothing at all from false history, math and rest of stuff... here i am today. Working at home and working what i want and when i want. One dy i go to my grandfather and work on magnetics generator, other sitting at home doing 3d animations for fun and for money i do program games as i find programming very interesting and specially im interested in developing A.I.. Coding makes to very easy to understand system program and matrix we live in cause there is no difference, only stupid functions and tons of variables and zero relativity.
So every now and than i make some game, publish to iTunes for tose iOS devices and watch money grows :)
In spare times i do all kinds of research and i love to invent alot! mechanics and electronics is my big love

But even if i laughed at kids at young age, now situation is very different.. Instead of laughing im actually sad when i see people arround me. WE HAVE SAME POTENTIALS, same enviroment and opportunities. Yet one choose to obey, other to raise. One blaims everybody and everything for problems, other takes full responsibility for his actions. Thing that saddens me most is fact that i know im not special and that we all have same abbilities, all humans do. And yet here we are in land of frozen souls.
When friends ask me how do i do all that i do i WANNA CRY and beat him with the dumb-stick!
Where this "evolution" went wrong? reptilians? naaahhhhh....

I was not everytime sucesfull in jobs and tasks i did to be more clear, sometimes i failed but thats how i learned how to raise quick again. Thats how i learned that i cant sell good, i couldnt sell piece of food to wealthy and hungry one :D

One of rules i love alot is:
without risk there is no profit!

And do not fear yourself, do not suspect in your capabilities, LOVE everything you do.
When you ask something and you get it, LOVE it, no matter what you asked for it!
if you wanted "ordinary" job for just "ordinary" sallary, LOVE it!

world will change shape arround your eyes, and do not believe me that one, try it and prove it to your self.

Not fearing and love is key to all doors.

[eileenrose]

The question is two parts. re: This topic.

One is about having an income (so not saying they are just telling the universe they want to win the lotto). So first you have to realize you need money and the USA requires all individuals to have it. I realize some people try to live in caves, but they still depend on others who do have income to survive (very few try to live off road kill....and weeds).

And the second part of this question is what work you choose to do....for either the pure experience of working or for fun or because you feel you need to work to be seen as valuable in your community.

If you are just collecting welfare or disability or inherited money or you did actually win a large enough amount of money to live off of for a long time (so no real concerns) and have learned to live on less (or for a few more money), then there is still the need to get out and be productive. To contribute.

So what was very fun to do for myself?
1. So you can decide you want to be a herbalist (I tried this first) and loved it. (My husband provided funds for that one. And the savings I had put together lasted after that.)
2. Then I decided on naturopathy (but then rejected it, but still loved the time I spent at it). (College loans help pay for some of that. Only did a bit.)
3. And so on, Accupuncture, jewelry designer, etc.

So I picked all the paths I was interested in, in order and did them all. (Disability income paid for the rest, after the other funding sources ended....all the way to the present time.)

Now I heal others occasionally, if it comes up to do. My main path is going spiritually within now. The funnest activity of them all. No words exist for this realm of occupation. Perhaps you can call it 'the guru path' for sanity's sake.

I did spend a lot of time (years and years) with the other person I met on a similar path of being self sufficient and doing what they loved. They found items to sell and found locations to sell at. It was loads of fun. Un-trackable income is the way to go.

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I did try to find jobs for employers I loved, all through the years, but people (that you work with) ruin that by being mean and picky and over protective (of their own positions). I once counted I had over 50 jobs for employers over my entire life span (I'm not young). Starting when I was 8 years old (some start young finding work & income, I sure did). They all have levels of miserable experiences associated. People just can't be trusted....is my final motto. just the way it is. Switching jobs is then the only solution....as when you are fresh meat they expect less, demand more (so are nicer and easier to get on with...I am referring to bosses/co-workers). So I just worked extra hard (no big deal) and managed. But that isn't really living. Just being.

[The Truth Is In There]

i release and sell music. i became self-employed around 2003 and still love my job. nevertheless i became interested in health & nutrition several years ago and studied these and related things intensively, just for fun. i'll probably start practicing something like that for a job after the internet goes down and the real worldwide problems start.

in hindsight, my life has been perfectly orchestrated, everything i did to this very day, everything that happened to me, helped me and kept me on a certain path. so i'm pretty sure that some things are going to happen in the near future that will prompt me to make these changes, despite my current job being safe and providing a good income.

the internet and possibly the power grid going down would be a likely scenario and since people are getting sicker and sicker it makes sense that i'm being led to study something that provides me with the knowledge to help a lot of them after the shtf. at the moment all i can do is explain to those few who listen how to improve their health but of course, being no doctor, nobody believes me when i tell them that all they've heard about proper nutrition from doctors and the media are lies.

things are going to change, and soon, that's for sure.

[PurpleLama]

I know several healers that specialize in working with animals, I would not discount the possibility. A few of these people I know actually make a decent living at it.


I am most definitely not making a living doing what I love. I have tons of work to do in theatre and arts journalism, but I never get paid. Publications don't pay excellent writers any more because so many bad and mediocre writers are willing to write for free. So I end up working for free all of the time. I usually do 30-40 hours of free work a week just so I can maintain my connections in the faint hope that someone might actually hire me for a paid position. It really, really sucks and sends me in to long bouts of depression. I too was told to do what I love because the money would eventually come, but that has not happened for me at all. I work very hard, have made a name and good reputation for myself, and stay active in my field, but still nothing!

I also love dogs very, very much. I can heal them when they are sick just by touching them. My friend told me I should try to earn money from this, but that doesn't sound right to me. I wouldn't want to take money from people who are so desperate that they turn to something as precarious as doggy faith healing.

I keep on thinking that any day now, things will get better, but I have been saying that for years already and have accepted that I am going to have to just forget my degree and skills and just take any job doing anything. :-(

[lisalu]

Yes, I love what I do for a living. I've been self-employed for 26 years now. These days I am a one woman shop, doing upholstery and boat interiors. Over the years I've done aircraft interiors and have had a crew working with me. I like this scaled down version, less headaches, more freedom. I love taking something old and worn out and making it beautiful. I love how every job is different and a challenge. I love being able to listen to my kinda music all day or listening to an interview or whatever inspires me at the moment. Over the years I've learned some really good lessons. How to trust and have faith, knowing that it is going to work out....the Universe DOES provide. You get what ya need...sometimes at the last moment.And manifesting, making a dream a reality.
I am now going to try doing something a bit different. I've made all my own soap for 33 years now. I love the creativity of making soap, using organic oils, essential oils and herbs. It's good for your body and good for the planet .My friends have urged me over the years to make it and sell it, I could never see it making any financial sense. However, I feel like I need the challenge and really believe in and love my soaps that I am going to go for it.what the hell. So I just invested a wad of dough into organic oils and cleared a section of my shop to play around with this. One thing for sure, my shop will smell great! wish me luck!

[OnTheFence]

Yes and No. I used to enjoy doing what I do, but I'm burnt out. I won't go into the details of how I got to where I am, but I own my own business, working from home building, maintaining, and hosting websites. But I'm a one-woman company and can only do so much work at one time. The income is not steady nor dependable. I've also been trying to do internet marketing, but the luck of the numbers isn't on my side. I also have a small website selling my cross stitch stuff and yoyo puffs - no sales yet. pffft! Hubby brings in the paycheck by working on the machine room of a furniture factory. Arthritis is really eating at him and I would love to get him out of the factory and at home. Neither one of us want to go on disability and the like ... we're not quite there yet in that regards.

In everything I love to do ... there just isn't that much money floating around. These economic times are really hurting a lot of people and industries. Many specialized fields are doing fine, but many of the more mainstream (common place) areas are not. The vast majority of folks I talk to on a daily basis on the internet from all over the USA say things are really tough for them and they are not spending much extra beyond the monthly bills. This results in lack of income on my end. This is happening everywhere. "Mom and Pop" stores are closing right and left in the region where I live. Starting to look like a ghost town.

I have a dream of helping the homeless and hungry. I have a journal where I have mapped out a facility (lack of better word) where I would not only provide housing and food for those in need, but also medical care and training and job placement in the fields they love so they can go back out there on their own two feet. It's a big production ... I have it all mapped out. But I don't have the millions to get it going, nor the resources or the connections.

I do volunteer at the local crisis center (food pantry plus), but there are no paying positions available in any of these types of places in the region I live. I inquire all the time. The Salvation Army and Red Cross are too "corporate" for my taste ... more like a job than a calling. I understand the need for the administration side of things, but I think organizations and governments have made things way too complicated than they need to be and in the end, not much gets done because your hands are tied, if you know what I mean.

Sorry to be a "debby-downer". Hubby and I are going through a seriously rough financial bad spot and well .... double pfffttt! =) hehe

[778 neighbour of some guy]

I love my job(s) i switched about a month ago from just working exclusively with the homeless to actually being working with 4 different groups of people with psychiatric issues ( very wide range from not so severe to completely messed up human beings) these groups are youth ( mostly abused, physiacally, mentally, sexually), they can display very unusual behaviour ( impulsively dangerous, self ( auto)mutilation) to the regular autism and add/ adhd kids with some acting out issues ( most of them have a combination of issues by the way, seems to go hand in hand with this particular group) most of them come from broken families etc etc so attaching themselves to people for the right reasons and intentions can be hard for them, love exists, trust exists, its all real, just use caution when treading this territory.

I am part of a team who teaches them to fend for themselves in the real world without making things worse than they allready can be. So i help them sorting out their finances, clean up their debts ( usually drug or manic spending related, teach them how to cook a decent reasonably healthy meal ( yes they can order a pizza once a week) how to pay their bills and live on a budget like everybody else has to do ( live within your means) how to signal when things are taking a bad turn in advance ( what do you need, counseling, medication adjustment, ( more/less/quit/change whatever floats their current boats, they are in charge of this, we just advice them) we give them the opportunity to do things wrong untill they get how to do them right and teach them self responsability. Basically we are a save haven for them to grow up with a lot of structure to make sure they can handle themselve in the real world ( wich we all know can be a real bitch as well as a sweatheart)

I work there in 24 hour shifts, meaning 9 hours on, eight hours sleep ( stay on duty in case of calamity, like fire, psychotic crisis, suicide attempts and break up fights), and then some more and pass along the shift on to the next guy or girl who comes to work.

Some images here of office, art from the kids, No ppics of colleagues or kids or their rooms, those are private ( they can have their boy or girlfriends over you know, would not be the first time i accidentally catch a few brats in the act)

My workstation
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Kids graffity art, they like nirvana

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The hallway, sssssssssssssh they are sleeping, do not slam doors

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Their shared living room, they also have a private one

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Sorry only five pics allowed per post, they also have a shared kitchen and what not.

The other places i work, homeless shelter, a rehab for attempted suicides and what have you ( did not work out well for them) and a place were people with psychiatric problems can also lead a sheltered reasonably normal life, busy busy busy, thank god i can sleep on the job as well eh, grinn.

I love my job

[Rambo45]

After retiring from The Police Dept. carrying a gun and wearing a bullet proof vest. I know deliver flowers and plants to some beautiful people here in NYC. Yes I Must Say I do Love My Job. ;) Dungarees and Sneakers works out for me pretty nicely.
What a nice change of pace! Congrats on finding something you love. It must feel nice to see people smile when you deliver your flowers :)

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yes I do!

I am a very successful "Sign Artist" on the Olympic Peninsula. I started doing what I love in 1979 after several years as a paid firefighter. Now I get up every morning and go next door to my studio and build beautiful signs and do murals and other odd pieces, I still use a brush to handletter and build all my own signs. I also have a beautiful place to live here in the Olympic Mountains. The straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and the Olympic National Park in my back yard............ Life cannot get any better than this.
Sounds like heaven! I envy you so much. Hope to be living your kind of life sometime.

[Rambo45]

Hello , im a nurse (RN) and love my job, wanted to do this from my mid teens, am constantly inspired by people i meet, and experience love and joy thru this type of work, there is also my fair share of frustration(dont get me started!!) and sorrow that comes with the territory- but what a learning curve and i think its all good for the soul. I fit this paid job in around my unpaid job of raising my children:juggle:
I always hear nurses are burned out and that it's all paperwork and not enough caring. Refreshing to hear the opposite! My cousin is actually studying to be an LVN so this is encouraging.