A job is the means to have accessibility to the things you enjoy, most people are frustrated in life because they have a notion that you must get up every morning looking forward to going to work and that is a big pile of crap. No matter how awesome my job can be, I much rather race or even play golf or sit my *** at home watching tv while sipping on hot coco.
Unless you are saving lives or delivering babies, in the grand skim of things a job is just that and none of us really do stuff that is that important.
Do it well, get paid and spend the time outside work doing the awesome things you like doing.
This is how I live my life.
I work. Hard. Alot. And often I don't like what I am doing. My work has nothing to do with those lifelong interests each of us have. I never would have become a labour trade if I were to choose solely based on what I want to do. It did however, allow me to step right into a $60,000/ yr job at 19 yrs old, right out of high school, what feels like a lifetime ago.
However, I take pride in doing it very well, and more often than not, people will wait sometimes months to have me do the job instead of some other butcher.
I tell myself that I have it pretty good, having my calendar pre-booked 30-60 days in advance for the past 15 yrs...never a famine or lull in the steadiness of work in the past 25 yrs. But, I do not get to do something I love for a living. I tell myself it is work, and work isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be WORK. I will however probably retire to disability, as my body takes an absolute smashing daily, and I can work 10 days a week anytime . My back aches, hands and wrists are torn up with so many yrs of carpal tunnel and more, that never ever get a rest. Hurting, sore or not, I am back on the job the next day. My lower back,hands and forearms take the brunt of it-worst part is, what tiny bit of personal time I have to chase my passions, requires vigorous use of those very same body parts- lower back, hands and forearms. They never get a break.
I do like when I have clients who have $, time, and an appreciation for art and value. I get to showoff, and get paid to do it. And unlike a plumber or electrician, people see the work and marvel at it and it is appreciated. That is how I excuse the fact that I get paid less than plumbers and electiricians- clients don't ever think about those guys until **** goes sideways, then they curse them. Who ever said "Honey, we haven't had a leak in this house in 20 yrs.....make sure you send that plumber an Xmas card"? lol
I hope my kids never end up doing anything like I do.
