Should you enjoy your career?

Vince S. · #1 04-17-2008, 05:44 PM

Should you? I have heard various perspectives on this. Some people I have spoken with have made their hobby their job, and love doing it. To them, work is fun. Others I've spoken with say that a job is a job and should be to make money for your other hobbies. What do you think?

jonathan_matos5 · #2 04-17-2008, 05:48 PM

if you can make money and live off of the money you get for your hobby then go for it!

HollowBassman · #3 04-17-2008, 05:48 PM

I don't do anything that I don't enjoy(at least a little). Life is too short and unpredictable to live for the future.

jsbass · #4 04-17-2008, 05:49 PM

I enjoy my work and I wouldn't do it if I didn't.

iamlowsound · #5 04-17-2008, 05:53 PM

I enjoy my job, it is not my dream job. I have a prospect for that one.

lowsound

Ben Lesser · #6 04-17-2008, 05:54 PM

Yeah, I wouldn't want to do anything that I didn't enjoy for the rest of my life, honestly.

Unless it was for a ridiculous amount of money and left time for me to pursue my other hobbies. But that's unlikely.

Poor and happy > rich and miserable.

phat daddy · #7 04-17-2008, 05:58 PM

Absolutely. Half your waking life is spent at your job, so if you hate your job, you hate half your life. Life is time spent.

jonathan_matos5 · #8 04-17-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben Lesser

Yeah, I wouldn't want to do anything that I didn't enjoy for the rest of my life, honestly.

Unless it was for a ridiculous amount of money and left time for me to pursue my other hobbies. But that's unlikely.

Poor and happy > rich and miserable.

+1000000000000

iamlowsound · #9 04-17-2008, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben Lesser

Yeah, I wouldn't want to do anything that I didn't enjoy for the rest of my life, honestly.

Unless it was for a ridiculous amount of money and left time for me to pursue my other hobbies. But that's unlikely.

Poor and happy > rich and miserable.

Ben speaks the truth. I would love to be rich and happy.

lowsound

TallLankyBastyd · #10 04-17-2008, 06:05 PM

It depends on your abilities...

Personally, I suck at all my hobbies (playing guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, & recording) but I still love them...

...so I tolerate the BS career (and have found one that I hate the least) and spend the money enjoying what free time I have.

If you can work hard at playing hard... EXCELLENT!!

Pilgrim · #11 04-17-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Vince S.

Should you? I have heard various perspectives on this. Some people I have spoken with have made their hobby their job, and love doing it. To them, work is fun. Others I've spoken with say that a job is a job and should be to make money for your other hobbies. What do you think?

If I can't enjoy it at least part of the time, I'm damnsure not going to pursue it as a career. All jobs have their frustrations, but when it stops being enjoyable more of the time than it isn't, then it's time to change careers.

Jazz Ad · #12 04-17-2008, 06:08 PM

I love my job and I love my hobbies. I wouldn't want to see them mixed up though.

iamlowsound · #13 04-17-2008, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pilgrim

If I can't enjoy it at least part of the time, I'm damnsure not going to pursue it as a career. All jobs have their frustrations, but when it stops being enjoyable more of the time than it isn't, then it's time to change careers.

Or just who you work with. The company that I used to work for sucked, big time and I could not stand the one guy that I worked with. We would get into yelling matches almost everyday. I quit and work for a different company doing the exact same thing and it is awesome.

lowsound

wazzel · #14 04-17-2008, 07:21 PM

I like my job most of the time. If you are at a job you hate all the time you should leave or take a different path in life. Work should not be torture all the time.

fdeck · #15 04-17-2008, 07:23 PM

To a large extent, I made a career of my hobbies. I was always a tinkerer as a kid. The electric bass got me interested in electronics. I think the interest in electronics, and later computers, helped propel interests in science and math. In college, I majored in math and physics, and then I went to grad school in physics.

I greatly enjoy my day job. It is a creative job involving interaction with a wide variety of people, the opportunity to learn and try new things, and developing socially redeeming products.

Would I take a sucky job to support my family? Of course. But given the choice, I would take a cool job instead.

Bhuti · #16 04-17-2008, 07:26 PM

Career to me = Enjoyment
Job = Work

JNowiski · #17 04-17-2008, 07:32 PM

i think you're an idiot if you have an opportunity to do what you love for money and don't take it.

prostitution counts.

peterbright · #18 04-17-2008, 07:33 PM

Life is mch more enjoyable if you like what you do, who you are with & where you live,

JNowiski · #19 04-17-2008, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by peterbright

Life is mch more enjoyable if you like what you do, who you are with & where you live,

yep. that's why i drink.

ryco · #20 04-17-2008, 07:37 PM

If there was a cool job available I would take it.
Since a cool job is not available or until I can figure out/create something cool, I'll take the one that pays the most and allows the most time flexiblity.
I'm almost at the end of my "working career" part of life. Don't really even need to work anymore, I just do.

If you can figure out something you really enjoy and supports your livelyhood to a good extent - by all means do it!! Con gusto!
I was never able to merge the two aspects for very long. No worries, no regrets.