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| I wanted to put a minion here, so I did. |
It's pretty simple and I don't think this lesson needs much fleshing out. If a job seems to be too good to be true, it probably is. Oh! And do NOT, I repeat DO NOT ever work somewhere you appreciated as a child. Chances are you will run into a place that crushes you image of what you thought that business to be like when you were a child. It will make you angry and resentful and you will spend a few years wishing you could make it better only to realize it was a ship sinking long before you ever got on it. It sucks. Speaking of when things suck....
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| NO! Not THAT! (PS: NEVER Google "sexy vacuum") |
After wedding wrapped up I knew I needed to get back into blog writer ASAP. Why? Because I needed a task to make me feel fulfilled in the way work never could. I try to focus on writing, reading, and just enjoying the internet. I have a dog and a husband that I will spend many a night with cooking dinner and watching shows on the couch. I have friends (yeah, who would have guessed that!) and I see them often on the weekend. In short, I have a kickass personal life and that helps balance things out. If you don't feel good about your day job, do yourself a favor and figure out what you need to make your life at home grand. Which brings me to my next point:
Get A Hobby
You know how so many cranky, old people below, "GET A JOB!"? Well I do the same thing with hobbies. If you are feeling crappy because you come home from a draining job and just stare at the wall, dreading going to work the next day, it's time to get a hobby. Ask my husband if you need help coming up with an activity to do. The man collect hobbies like some people collect bobble heads, and he's damn good at every hobby he undertakes. Do you know why? Because he treats every hobby with precision and dedication. The same precision and dedication you would apply to a day job. If work has you down and feeling like your brain is turning to the green mush from Troll 2, it's time to get passionate about something!
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| Because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. |
I used to think that my blog and youtube channel would one day make me famous enough that I wouldn't have to ever do anything but the two for the rest of my life. That really is my ultimate dream, to make my art for a living. I often stop and remind myself though that that is a privilege that few people get. It requires a raw talent, determination, and dash of dumb luck that very few get. Plus you can't be lazy. You can't come home from work and just mindlessly type for a few hours and hit "post". It requires turning your hobby from a hobby to a part-time job. Not that there is anything wrong with trying to turn something like this blog into a business, but not at the point that your creation process suffers. There was a point where I wasn't writing because I thought the topics I wanted to cover weren't "marketable" enough. And that's just dumb. I had some people reading and that was more than enough. It I start worrying about every schmuck that comes here to read I will probably have an aneurism. So maybe you will manage to make your hobby turn into a business and maybe you won't. Just don't let your hobbies suffer because you put a paycheck like and asterisk next to it. Remember why you started that hobby, because you like it, because it keeps you sane, because it's an escape from that pesky job you've been trying not to think about all morning. So that's what I've learned. Work can suck, work can shatter your perception on the real world but it can lead you to doing great things. Just don't let those escapes turn into another job you resent and dread.
Here's to hoping that something good is around the bend!
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| My inner Disney Princess is still hoping |
Xoxo
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