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Originally Posted by impaul99  Personally I prefer to advocate "Making Money Doing What You Love", and that is the theme of my Blog. I see these four possibilities:
(1) Being Unemployed and Not Doing What You Love
(2) Having a Job that Pays Your Bills But You're Not Doing What You Love
(3) Having a Job Doing What You Love (Could involve partial ownership in company, such as for example working for Google and owning stock options)
(4) Being Self Employed Doing What You Love
I don't think it's that bad to have a job as long as it's #3 above, and not #2. I personally prefer #4, but if the thing I loved to do required a lot of co-operation with other people, such as for example being a video game designer, I might prefer #3. I think #2 is what Steve is really trying to get people to shake and to him doing #1 is even better than #2 because it will probably lead you a lot quicker to #4.... or you'll starve.  |
I agree very much with you, and I don't know why #3 has to be completely ignored around here. Some people do not want to run their own business. I suppose ideally, people who do work where they traditionally need to have a job, could work as a partner with someone instead of as an employee, but I can also see where that's a problem because in some cases one person needs to be more in charge. I was thinking of a friend who's a veterinary assistant. She thinks she's got the greatest job in the universe. She'd do this for free, but amazingly, somebody actually pays her to do it. I suppose she could set up her own veterinary assistant business, but she doesn't want to run a business. She wants to play with animals and pet cats and take dogs for walks.