Passion and Success
How being passionate about what you do drives your success. Radical careering blog talks about how you propel yourself by believeing in what you do. If you put your all into something that keeps sucking life from you, move on out.
Reminds me of a blind date I had this year. Good guy, but his career bugged me. He operates a Burger King, which pays well but he doesn’t like it, for over 10 years. He’s now a single dad. He’s getting up at 4am on Sunday mornings and dealing with high school and college kids all day. It pays too well to change.
I respect bringing home the bacon, but the other part of me, is WHY put up with something you don’t like for that long? It’s not a divorce for heaven’s sake. I took major pay cuts to do what I’m doing now. But do I regret it? No way.
Work takes a lot of energy. I love what I do. Of course there are up/downs. But I love working on something so dynamic and interesting. Why people do what they do, how the internet helps them do what they do, and what I can do to influence their choices or help them. I can’t imagine doing anything that I hated that long. We live in a free country, a blessed condition, may as well take full advantage.
2 Responses to “Passion and Success”
Leave a Reply
December 20th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Reminds me of a Jack Welch saying… “change before you have to”
December 22nd, 2005 at 7:04 am
I was in the Burger King system for like 5 years. ended up running my own store. Hot of hard work which taught me a lot about managing people.
I called it a good learning experience but i had to break out.. and then came Morinda.