It's nice to see so many people joining this thread
and setting out to find a job that comes naturally to them. Congratulations
I thought I should mention a new development, only because of the nature of it. One thing I have been working on is a website. I have been waiting and creating oodles of content for the phantom website--waiting for someone willing to make the website for me or at least to help me. I was down to resorting to Site Build It!, which, it seemed, didn't really suit what I wanted, when...last week, I went back to my mom's to meet this guy who allegedly kept asking my mom if he can make her a website.
What I found when I met this man (a web designer by profession) was above and beyond any expectation I had. I showed him a design and plan of how I wanted my website, I sent him a link to a rough draft of it, and after he saw what I wanted to do with my site, not only did he agree to do it for me, he actually "got" what I wanted to do and he wanted to make it happen. He said many amazing things--he said he would "sponsor" me, that is, not require any payment from me, because, as he put it, it is his mission to make sure that content like mine gets out into the world. He told me ways to market my site, ways for me to "get myself out there" so people would visit my site and he was sincere in his motive; he actually wanted my site to be prosperous, as if he had a personal stake in it, just like I did.
He was so impressed with my intentions with my site that I told him my ultimate goal with the site, which has nothing to do with the site directly, and he was even more impressed, because it is such an ambitious goal and he said he looks for people with altruistic goals that are so much bigger than they are, because he thinks bigger than himself too and he wants to help people like that.
In a nutshell,
this is exactly the kind of person I had ideally hoped to find. Someone with the skill to help me who would be as enthusiastic about my mission as I am and who would take it as seriously as I do. Someone who saw and felt my vision the same way I did
Having said that, though, financially things are coming down to the wire for me...not sure what I'll do about that yet...