Comments on: Dear Bloggers, I’m Sick of Reading about Passion http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/03/19/dear-bloggers-im-sick-of-reading-about-passion/ Marketing to Gen Y Women. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:01:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Weekend Reading: 03-20-10 http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/03/19/dear-bloggers-im-sick-of-reading-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-12006 Weekend Reading: 03-20-10 Tue, 25 May 2010 17:32:06 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2326#comment-12006 [...] Dear Bloggers, I’m Sick of Reading About Passion [...] [...] Dear Bloggers, I’m Sick of Reading About Passion [...]

]]> By: Allie http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/03/19/dear-bloggers-im-sick-of-reading-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-9614 Allie Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:28:05 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2326#comment-9614 I'm an Xer, but I LOVE this post. And I'm a full-time fiction writer who has my first book coming out in two months. So, yeah, I have followed my passion, but it's a choice. And I sacrifice for that choice - security, company paid benefits, co-workers to chat with at lunch, an actual end to my work day. I am so lucky and so thankful, but just because I'm working my dream job doesn't mean it isn't work - in fact, it's more work, because I care so much more about this than I ever did about previous jobs - my entire personhood is tied to this job. I can certainly understand the choice to work in a corporate setting, or in a job that's just a job. Sometimes, I really miss being able to leave work at the end of the day. I had a friend get mad at me last week when I couldn't agree to a last minute lunch date because I was working. But I feel like if I were at an office, working on a big corporate project, or preparing to take the bar exam people would naturally understand when I'm too busy to go out to lunch. It's hard to combat that whole - she's a writer, she doesn't really work - idea. And I have friends who are artists in various fields and deal with similar issues. I think this whole PERSUE YOUR PASSION!!! thing, along with being condescending to people who have made a conscious choice to work in offices and corporations, also demeans the people who don't. My work is real work too. And I work HARD. Plus, there's nothing wrong with pursuing passions on the side. I don't believe that my choosing to write full time makes me any more or less of a writer than someone who writes on weekend or early mornings before they go to work. But I also don't feel the need to compare and contrast my life to other people's to feel okay about myself. Finding a work/life balance is a hard thing to do, and I think that balance should be celebrated. Everyone has the right to make choices in their lives and it's silly to point fingers and decide what the right way for another person to live or work is. Good for you for saying something about this! I’m an Xer, but I LOVE this post. And I’m a full-time fiction writer who has my first book coming out in two months. So, yeah, I have followed my passion, but it’s a choice. And I sacrifice for that choice – security, company paid benefits, co-workers to chat with at lunch, an actual end to my work day. I am so lucky and so thankful, but just because I’m working my dream job doesn’t mean it isn’t work – in fact, it’s more work, because I care so much more about this than I ever did about previous jobs – my entire personhood is tied to this job. I can certainly understand the choice to work in a corporate setting, or in a job that’s just a job. Sometimes, I really miss being able to leave work at the end of the day.

I had a friend get mad at me last week when I couldn’t agree to a last minute lunch date because I was working. But I feel like if I were at an office, working on a big corporate project, or preparing to take the bar exam people would naturally understand when I’m too busy to go out to lunch. It’s hard to combat that whole – she’s a writer, she doesn’t really work – idea. And I have friends who are artists in various fields and deal with similar issues. I think this whole PERSUE YOUR PASSION!!! thing, along with being condescending to people who have made a conscious choice to work in offices and corporations, also demeans the people who don’t. My work is real work too. And I work HARD.

Plus, there’s nothing wrong with pursuing passions on the side. I don’t believe that my choosing to write full time makes me any more or less of a writer than someone who writes on weekend or early mornings before they go to work. But I also don’t feel the need to compare and contrast my life to other people’s to feel okay about myself. Finding a work/life balance is a hard thing to do, and I think that balance should be celebrated. Everyone has the right to make choices in their lives and it’s silly to point fingers and decide what the right way for another person to live or work is.

Good for you for saying something about this!

]]> By: Brandy Brown http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/03/19/dear-bloggers-im-sick-of-reading-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-8611 Brandy Brown Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:08:53 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2326#comment-8611 I just posted a similar rant a week or so ago about entrepreneurial blogs making it seem like quitting was the only path to happiness in your job. Loved this post - and I completely agree! http://paintandsoul.blogspot.com/2010/03/rant-entrepreneurship-meaning-is-not.html I just posted a similar rant a week or so ago about entrepreneurial blogs making it seem like quitting was the only path to happiness in your job. Loved this post – and I completely agree!

http://paintandsoul.blogspot.com/2010/03/rant-entrepreneurship-meaning-is-not.html

]]> By: Andy http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/03/19/dear-bloggers-im-sick-of-reading-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-8167 Andy Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:31:25 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2326#comment-8167 At a medium-sized college in the S.F. Bay Area. We have 3 classes each quarter that have been filling up more and more these past few years. I also wish that there was some kind of a solid career education component for high school students. The trick, actually at any student level, is to make career education compelling enough to get as many students as possible to at least become aware of, or even take action on, the importance of early career exploration and development, like being smart with your online image. Just send me a message, and I'll be happy to chat more. At a medium-sized college in the S.F. Bay Area. We have 3 classes each quarter that have been filling up more and more these past few years. I also wish that there was some kind of a solid career education component for high school students. The trick, actually at any student level, is to make career education compelling enough to get as many students as possible to at least become aware of, or even take action on, the importance of early career exploration and development, like being smart with your online image. Just send me a message, and I’ll be happy to chat more.

]]> By: phampants http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/03/19/dear-bloggers-im-sick-of-reading-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-8031 phampants Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:34:36 +0000 http://www.mscareergirl.com/?p=2326#comment-8031 THANK YOU!!!! That is all THANK YOU!!!!

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