Do you have a passion?

RedXIV · 30-08-2013 05:58PM

I was mad about gaming as a kid and couldn't see any downside to working in the industry. And I did it, 4 years working as a video game tester. But the pay is crap and I had a family. So I moved out of gaming and into "normal" software.

Now I just want to set up my own business! But again its down to money

Pensivepuca · 30-08-2013 05:59PM

I can not go a day with out art, and am considering aiming to get an education in it and a job (part time). But as people have said, I fear I may end up hating it.

Roger_007 · 30-08-2013 06:17PM

Definition of passion: Heavy rain in Belfast!

(You have to pronounce it as they do in Belfast)

Mysteriouschic · 30-08-2013 06:19PM

Don't really know but I think I have a passion for swimming I always love it I've just never joined the teams or anything .

club goldgrain · 03-09-2013 11:26AM

caustic 1 wrote: »

Too old now to be thinking like that.... I have never found anything that I would really really love to do for the rest of my days.

really???:cool:

General General · 03-09-2013 11:29AM

Sleepy wrote: »

The classic piece of advice to a young person wondering what to do with themselves in life is always to "find something you love doing and find someone to pay you to do it" but, despite this being so obviously the key to a happy life (and something I really wish for my kids), most of us end up doing fairly humdrum jobs to support our ordinary lives.

While I've had many hobbies and interests over the years, my attention has never really stayed with any of them. Even if you simply graphed my posts on boards you'd see trends waxing and waning in Fitness, Photography, Politics, Films, TV, Music, Travel etc.

Maybe I'll come across my great passion at some stage, but at 33, it's likely I've already spent a third of my life without coming across one (let alone one I can turn into a living) so I think it's quite unlikely.

How about you AH? Anyone have life-long passions and, if so, have you managed to turn it into a sustainable source of income?

I see the problem.

You think you've all the time in the world.

BeerWolf · 03-09-2013 11:35AM

I got a passion fruit.

*Scoops out of it*

Nom

hardCopy · 03-09-2013 11:40AM

Hoop66 wrote: »

This is my worry. I love cooking, do all the cooking at home and there's nothing I'd rather do than cook and then enjoy food with friends.

I'ev thought on a couple of occasions about trying to make a living at it, but 1) The worry that I'd grow to hate it and 2) It's be a huge drop in income as AFAIK there's not many food jobs that are well paid.

I also love cooking. I'd never be a chef though, for one thing most places end up making broadly similar dishes every night, even if they do vary it a bit in the higher end establishments.

The real problem for me would be the heat in a commercial kitchen, I worked on the floor in pubs and restaurants while in college and I wouldn't even cut up a bowl of lemons in the kitchen. I used to swipe a knife and a board and go and slice them in the keg room :eek:

GorillaRising · 03-09-2013 11:41AM

General General wrote: »

I see the problem.

You think you've all the time in the world.

You're problem is perhaps you feel constrained by time?

club goldgrain · 03-09-2013 11:46AM

time and age should not stop you follow your passion, but i think most of us will not make a living doing what we love, normally we need a good job to make enough money for us to carry out what we love.
does that make sense?

Sleepy · 03-09-2013 11:53AM

General General wrote: »

I see the problem.

You think you've all the time in the world.

The standard life expectancy figures are based on those that died in the year you were born and, are therefore pretty skewed by advances in modern medicine. Most of us currently under the age of 40 have a reasonable chance of living well into our 90's thanks to modern immunizations, better nutrition, advances in cancer treatment etc.

Of course, it's quite possible I'll won't make it past 60 (particularly as I'm a smoker who lives a fairly sedentary lifestyle).

Either way, with a young family and a career to support them with, time is something I really don't have a lot of!

Sleepy · 03-09-2013 11:55AM

club goldgrain wrote: »

time and age should not stop you follow your passion, but i think most of us will not make a living doing what we love, normally we need a good job to make enough money for us to carry out what we love.
does that make sense?

I'd agree, most of us don't get to have that luxury: particularly when you see so many people who's passions are art / music etc. Unfortunately for them, careers in these areas are such commonly held ambitions it's only a very, very small percentage of whose with such ambitions that can actually make a living out of them.

club goldgrain · 03-09-2013 11:58AM

Sleepy wrote: »

The standard life expectancy figures are based on those that died in the year you were born and, are therefore pretty skewed by advances in modern medicine. Most of us currently under the age of 40 have a reasonable chance of living well into our 90's thanks to modern immunizations, better nutrition, advances in cancer treatment etc.

Of course, it's quite possible I'll won't make it past 60 (particularly as I'm a smoker who lives a fairly sedentary lifestyle).

Either way, with a young family and a career to support them with, time is something I really don't have a lot of!

lets not write ourselve off to early,
give up the smoking add 10years and then make time for yourself,
i'm over 40 and except to be hanging around here until i'm well about 99ish.
passion keeps you healthy chase it.

General General · 03-09-2013 12:02PM

GorillaRising wrote: »

You're problem is perhaps you feel constrained by time?

There's always two ways of looking at anything, I suppose... when you're as lazy as me, if you didn't set up some feeling of time constraint, you'd getting ***nathin'*** done. Ever. I suspect.

Czarcasm · 03-09-2013 12:03PM

I always had three passions - helping people to reach their potential and then challenge themselves to go beyond that is the first one. Education is the second one, and technology is the third one.

I get to marry all three in my daily life by helping people to get into education and showing other people how they can benefit from technology, both enabling people to reach their full potential.

I think anything you're really passionate about can be incredibly rewarding. I don't do what I do for the money, 90% of the work I do is voluntarily taken on, but the 10% of work I DO charge for, enables me to do the 90% of the work I don't charge for

General General · 03-09-2013 12:11PM

Sleepy wrote: »

The standard life expectancy figures are based on those that died in the year you were born and, are therefore pretty skewed by advances in modern medicine. Most of us currently under the age of 40 have a reasonable chance of living well into our 90's thanks to modern immunizations, better nutrition, advances in cancer treatment etc.

Of course, it's quite possible I'll won't make it past 60 (particularly as I'm a smoker who lives a fairly sedentary lifestyle).

Either way, with a young family and a career to support them with, time is something I really don't have a lot of!

All good points, in & of themselves (no, I am not sure what 'in & of themselves' means, but I've wanted to write that for a long time), my point was that one can't rely on that much time, & even if one could, there's Hofstadter's Law.

Fox_In_Socks · 03-09-2013 12:18PM

I have a few hobbies, but they aren't full blown passions. As long as I manage to make it to the ebnd of the week alive, then I'm happy.

General General · 03-09-2013 12:22PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

I have a few hobbies, but they aren't full blown passions. As long as I manage to make it to the ebnd of the week alive, then I'm happy.

So, you're telling us that Survivalism is your passion? or hardcore weekend drinking?

Fox_In_Socks · 03-09-2013 12:26PM

General General wrote: »

So, you're telling us that Survivalism is your passion?

Well, when rabbits are thin on the ground, then you're stuck with mice and field voles. Even resorting to stealing uneaten catfood at times...the shame!

General General · 03-09-2013 12:28PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Well, when rabbits are thin on the ground, then you're stuck with mice and field voles. Even resorting to stealing uneaten catfood at times...the shame!

& prank calling bloodhounds, is what I've heard.

nacho libre · 03-09-2013 10:11PM

climbing mountains.

am i bovvered · 03-09-2013 10:15PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Maybe I'll come across my great passion at some stage, but at 33, it's likely I've already spent a third of my life without coming across one (let alone one I can turn into a living) so I think it's quite unlikely.

How about you AH? Anyone have life-long passions and, if so, have you managed to turn it into a sustainable source of income?

Hi OP I discovered skiing at the age of 32, I am not that great at it, but it is definitely my passion.

Agricola · 03-09-2013 10:39PM

Was going to start a thread about Enthusiasts, this is sort of similar.

Enthusiasts amaze me. They usually have one all encompassing passion / hobby and for many of them it eats up the majority of their time when not working. They are either doing their hobby, thinking about doing it, or talking about it as much as possible. It could be people who have thousands of posts in a forum on boards, they post regularly everyday about their passion. Or its people who play a sport, i.e hurling training a few nights a week and matches every weekend, golf every weekend. Im into classic cars and I dont make every meet or show going, but id always see certain people at them when I am, ergo they are at them all!

I dont have the inclination to be like that about anything. I'll dip my toe in many things and often wane after awhile. Kind of like to be more commited to one thing really but I just find it too tedious. I couldnt be doing with being tied down to one thing so much.

Fox_In_Socks · 03-09-2013 10:42PM

Agricola wrote: »

Was going to start a thread about Enthusiasts, this is sort of similar.

Enthusiasts amaze me. They usually have one all encompassing passion / hobby and for many of them it eats up the majority of their time when not working. They are either doing their hobby, thinking about doing it, or talking about it as much as possible. It could be people who have thousands of posts in a forum on boards, they post regularly everyday about their passion. Or its people who play a sport, i.e hurling training a few nights a week and matches every weekend, golf every weekend. Im into classic cars and I dont make every meet or show going, but id always see certain people at them when I am, ergo they are at them all!

I dont have the inclination to be like that about anything. I'll dip my toe in many things and often wane after awhile. Kind of like to be more commited to one thing really but I just find it too tedious. I couldnt be doing with being tied down to one thing so much.

I actually read Enthusiasts as Euthanasiasts. :pac: I suppose you could call them serial killers.:pac:

pharmaton · 03-09-2013 10:54PM

had a great passion for art when I was a kid that's about it, I would spend eight hours a day sketching and did a little work in a few areas using those same skills for a few companies when I was a young adult but despite getting an A1 in honours my leaving in art, I failed to get into art college..twice. I gave up after that and never had a passion for anything else since. (actually have never picked up so much as a pencil since)

Archeron · 03-09-2013 10:55PM

I have a passion fruit. It's a bit mouldy in the bowl in the dining room.
I think it's been bullied by the satsumas.

Fox_In_Socks · 03-09-2013 10:57PM

pharmaton wrote: »

had a great passion for art when I was a kid that's about it, I would spend eight hours a day sketching and did a little work in a few areas using those same skills for a few companies when I was a young adult but despite getting an A1 in honours my leaving in art, I failed to get into art college..twice. I gave up after that and never had a passion for anything else since. (actually have never picked up so much as a pencil since)

That's sad. Would you ever think of going back and doing as a hobby?

irish bloke · 03-09-2013 10:58PM

A passion for beautiful women and fine wine. Sure that's what it's all about at the end of the day

pharmaton · 03-09-2013 10:59PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

That's sad. Would you ever think of going back and doing as a hobby?

I can't even draw now, it's like a chore to even try, I don't feel creative or inspired and I found trying to be is an exhausting exercise.

April O Neill · 07-09-2013 03:41AM

anncoates wrote: »

When women describe themselves as having passion

A passion, not just passion. Big diff.

Do you have a passion?

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