From the Problogger ‘How To…’ Group Writing Project, March Choon advises us that if you work for passion, the money will come of its own:
Yes you need money to run your business but that should not be the driving force though. The issue is not to lose sight of your passion, the reason why you’re doing this instead of working for a monthly pay from someone else. Lose sight of that and your work will be tedious. What’s worse is that your customers can sense that you’re not doing it for the passion but rather for the money. That is greed. And greed is the path to the dark side…
This is a long article, and quite a bit of it strikes me as happy-babble.
I like the basic idea more than I like the execution, and I’m not 100% in love with the basic idea. I do believe in working for passion, but I think it’s important to focus your passion on things that pay well. An admirable poverty is only admired from the outside. From the inside, eventually, it can come to be a tailor-made hell.
So: Passion? You bet. Money? If you don’t make an effort to snatch it, someone else will…
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jf.sellsius says:
Passion and payment—sounds like the oldest profession: farming.
September 26, 2006 — 9:31 am
Mark says:
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your comments on it. “Happy babble” was not something I intended. I wrote that post based on speaking to many business owners who tell me that without the foundation that passion in doing something brings, they wouldn’t have survived and pulled through the times where cashflow was very tight.
There will definitely be a different point of view, but I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Thanks again for picking up my post and talking about it
cheers!
Mark
October 1, 2006 — 7:43 am
Audrey says:
So this morning I wrote a poem, well really a rhyme, about a grocery bag stuck in a tree in our parking lot. The “parable” of the whole thing was that if you get stuck in the same old place because of fear or maybe complaceny you’ll lose your usefulness. We’ve got to keep our creativity, unique thoughts to be able to freely dance in the wind. Perhaps those working just for money and not for passion are like the bag caught in the tree. Yesterday it danced on the wind although stuck like glue to the tree, but because it was really stuck, today it’s ripped and strangled and caught in another branch. It strugges to dance but it can’t. Yesterday perhaps the bag thought of the tree as security and a friend, but today the tree is its executioner. I’ve been tied to an employer who I thought let my be myself and I got tangled in the security of a good paycheck. I got ripped to shreds when I got too tangled. Now I have a job where I believe I can truly dance, be creative, learn new things. Just like this – my first blog! I’ll be linking for GetMyHomesValue, a company that generates real estate leads for real estate agents across the company. How’d I do?
March 6, 2007 — 12:22 pm