Everybody in this group keeps saying to quit your day job and follow your passion, but I think that's terrible advice for most people.

I've been working construction for 12 years while building furniture on nights and weekends, and my boring paycheck lets me turn down clients who want cheap particle board crap because I don't need the money badly enough to compromise. How many of you have actually tried to survive on passion alone and ended up hating the thing you loved?

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evan_green529d ago

Man I tried the whole passion career thing once and ended up eating ramen for 6 months while my "art" sat unsold in a closet. Now I just keep my hobby as a hobby so I don't learn to hate it.

amy_anderson9d ago

@evan_green52 nailed it - passion works way better as a side gig that doesn't have to pay the bills.

allen.kai9d ago

Every time I hear 'follow your passion' I think of all the people I know who turned their hobby into a job and now just complain about it constantly." It's like that thing with home cooking too - the minute you start cooking for money, you stop wanting to experiment and just make whatever sells (and it's usually boring stuff).