Quote Originally Posted by rong View Post
Thinking more about this thread, there's one thing that I figured out a little too late.

Life is long. People say it's short, and looking back I'm sure it is. But in all probability you'll have approx 50yrs or so working, which is typically 40 hrs a week or w/e. And 50 yrs doing a job you don't enjoy is a long dam time.

So many people think about careers and are persuaded by money. But that's a huge mistake. Even if you pick a well paid career, only a select few will be super rich from it.

So the secret which all careers advisers should share is to ignore the money. Instead just find something you like doing. Anything at all. Then figure out a way to earn a living from it. If you genuinely enjoy what you do then you don't need money to escape it.

I know maybe a hand full of people who ate lucky enough to absolutely love their jobs/careers. One owns/runs an elephant sanctuary, one is a successful tv director, another is a musician.

All of them love what they do. They're excited by it and passionate about it and genuinely enjoy it and they're amongst the happiest people I know.

So that combined with surrounding yourself with people who make you feel good is a good start to a happy and satisfying life.
You're right, and I'm grateful that I have such a career option. It's still hard when you work your ass off and you just kinda scrape by, though. I didn't want to sound like a big whine post above by the way, but I was a bit tipsy and what can ya do, sometimes you gotta bitch. Just ran into my (hot blonde) neighbour on the way in now, was like ya had a long day, been rehearsing straight for like 10 hours, and she's like "well at least you're earning doing your hobby." It's such a kick in the balls to be told that what I'm doing is a hobby.