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Old 07-21-2008, 08:10 PM   #5 (permalink)
Bruce Achterberg
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Since my first post was super-long, I'll super-summarise it:

While I'm doing what I love, I get no money from it. Any time spent getting money means I'm not doing what I love. Doing what I love will probably make money after I've explored it enough and developed a bit more skill (or at least, an awareness of the very core of what I love is), but it will take a while before that will happen (or so I believe; perhaps that's an inaccurate belief). Making money isn't the goal, but without money I remain in my current situation (or perhaps a park bench if I continue to get no money... yes, I'm exaggerating to make a point, heh).

How do I bridge the two (i.e. money + what I love) when what I love doesn't pay off at all (or much) in the short term (at least, it seems like it won't)? Is that what I even need to do? Is there a whole other way of looking at this that I'm missing? Does the real solution come in a seemingly non-ideal package, but is actually really great and I've just been missing it because of my inaccurate beliefs about it?
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