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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Would you consider turning it into money? I dont like money, never have..its a childhood experience thing. At one point I took my cave leadership ticket passed all with flying colours except my final exams, same with my mountain leadership course, the reason I stopped at the final exams is that I decided that I may lose my love and my reason for doing it if it became a job. I manage a beautiful woodland and I hate handing in an invoice each month as it doesn t seem right as I love it so much but then we all have to live and pay bills etc. What are your thoughts...would you hesitate at turning your passion into a job? I love to teach and create for the smiles and enjoyment, the passing on of knowledge and beauty.

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By *ouanna JoWoman
over a year ago

A little village

I did turn my passion into a job.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I did turn my passion into a job. "

Is it still that same level of passion as a job?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I did it once. Never again!

At the start it was great to get paid for doing something I loved but then it became a chore and took most of the enjoyment out of it.

Expectations, goal setting etc just spoilt it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I did it once. Never again!

At the start it was great to get paid for doing something I loved but then it became a chore and took most of the enjoyment out of it.

Expectations, goal setting etc just spoilt it."

^^This^^

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I did it once. Never again!

At the start it was great to get paid for doing something I loved but then it became a chore and took most of the enjoyment out of it.

Expectations, goal setting etc just spoilt it."

This is what I thought would happen with my outdoors stuff..leading set groups in a set time with no option of diversions and distractions..my wild places for me were never meant to be enjoyed by the clock.

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By *ouanna JoWoman
over a year ago

A little village


"I did turn my passion into a job.

Is it still that same level of passion as a job?"

It’s has significant challenges (like most jobs), but when I see people making progress and feeling better, or receive a card saying the work we’ve done together has changed their life... yes. The passion is rekindled and I’m reminded why I’ve worked as hard as I have to achieve my career.

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By *stbury DavenportMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

In the same manner there is no faster way to lose a friend than sharing a house with them, there is no faster way to destroy one of your hobbies than doing it for a living.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I did turn my passion into a job.

Is it still that same level of passion as a job?

It’s has significant challenges (like most jobs), but when I see people making progress and feeling better, or receive a card saying the work we’ve done together has changed their life... yes. The passion is rekindled and I’m reminded why I’ve worked as hard as I have to achieve my career. "

Thats great...love that there is a continued reconnection to why you loved it in the first place, thats important.

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By *ouanna JoWoman
over a year ago

A little village


"I did turn my passion into a job.

Is it still that same level of passion as a job?

It’s has significant challenges (like most jobs), but when I see people making progress and feeling better, or receive a card saying the work we’ve done together has changed their life... yes. The passion is rekindled and I’m reminded why I’ve worked as hard as I have to achieve my career.

Thats great...love that there is a continued reconnection to why you loved it in the first place, thats important. "

Exactly and that’s what’s important for me. I know my levels of motivation to go to work are going to fluctuate daily - that’s only natural. Who wakes up every single day feeling on top of the world and wanting to be at their desk immediately? I wake up like that some days, but definitely not all. But I don’t think that’s a realistic expectation of anyone because humans don’t work like that.

So long as I have a connection with why I wanted to help people in the first place, then I am happy and contented with my career choice and I know, underneath the very many challenges I face daily, I’m ultimately still achieving my passion. And I also know that I can never lose connection with the reasons why... because the event that triggered my passion is something of such profound emotional significance, it is engrained deeply in the person I am, and always has been.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

On Holibobs

Yes I turned a hobby into a business and I have been 11 years self-employed with it now, I love teaching people about a passion of mine

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I did turn my passion into a job.

Is it still that same level of passion as a job?

It’s has significant challenges (like most jobs), but when I see people making progress and feeling better, or receive a card saying the work we’ve done together has changed their life... yes. The passion is rekindled and I’m reminded why I’ve worked as hard as I have to achieve my career.

Thats great...love that there is a continued reconnection to why you loved it in the first place, thats important.

Exactly and that’s what’s important for me. I know my levels of motivation to go to work are going to fluctuate daily - that’s only natural. Who wakes up every single day feeling on top of the world and wanting to be at their desk immediately? I wake up like that some days, but definitely not all. But I don’t think that’s a realistic expectation of anyone because humans don’t work like that.

So long as I have a connection with why I wanted to help people in the first place, then I am happy and contented with my career choice and I know, underneath the very many challenges I face daily, I’m ultimately still achieving my passion. And I also know that I can never lose connection with the reasons why... because the event that triggered my passion is something of such profound emotional significance, it is engrained deeply in the person I am, and always has been. "

I love this, well done and best wishes to you...it sounds like your work helps others find something they need. Im lucky in that I dont have a desk, I have wild places so I do wake up everyday looking forward to my work, miss it when not there. I invoice them once home and the money is transferred to my bank so keeping the two worlds apart..seems to work for me

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Yes I turned a hobby into a business and I have been 11 years self-employed with it now, I love teaching people about a passion of mine "

Best wishes for the future, these are testing times.

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