{"id":13272,"date":"2010-09-18T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T18:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13272"},"modified":"2010-09-18T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T18:13:30","slug":"find-your-passion-make-money-from-it-gimme-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13272\/find-your-passion-make-money-from-it-gimme-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Passion? Make Money From It? Gimme A Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I hear or read someone espousing the ‘find your passion’<\/em> mantra (Or should I say script?), my knee jerk reaction is to roll my eyes, sigh melodramatically, and wonder what percentage of these people are chanting that catchphrase to convince themselves<\/strong> and not you and me. Try this — being brutally honest, count how many people you know, first hand<\/em>, who are literally passionate about what they do for a living. <\/p>\n

I can name one — Grandpa. He’s long gone, but his two careers were marked by his love and passion for both. I maintain his case is anomalous.<\/strong> In my life I’ve had a passion for an avocation, baseball — specifically umpiring. I couldn’t believe they paid me for doing it. Whether I was on some forlorn diamond at the God forsaken hour of 9 AM on a Sunday morning for a bunch of 20-somethings with six fans in attendance, or a post season college game with a few thousand partisans watchin’, I loved it. It mattered not to me if it was a Little League game or a Pac 10 contest, the thrill was always there. <\/p>\n

Still, it’s been my personal experience and first hand observation that easily over 95% of us aren’t that kind of passionate about what we do. <\/p>\n

Yet I maintain, speaking only for myself, that I have a work related passion that keeps me goin’ beyond any desire to generate income. Furthermore, I think I may be in a large minority, if not the majority. <\/p>\n

The passion I enjoy for my work has little to do with the work itself — though I’ll admit there are parts of it I thoroughly enjoy and even gleefully anticipate. But for the most part? I don’t love my work.<\/strong> And I’m betting you don’t either. We don’t hate it, at least most of it, but we don’t wake up in the morning excited that the Lord gave us another day to mess with those folks attached to our business who seemingly exist only to make our lives miserable. And no, I’m not talkin’ about our clients Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time I hear or read someone espousing the ‘find your passion’ mantra (Or should I say script?), my knee jerk reaction is to roll my eyes, sigh melodramatically, and wonder what percentage of these people are chanting that catchphrase to convince themselves and not you and me. 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