How To Make Money Doing What You Love

This is the first post in the “Getting Out of Debt Series.”

“How do I make money doing what I love to do?”

Is it possible to find the center between what makes you money and what you really love to do? Many are left on their deathbeds doing what they’ve needed to do rather than what they want to do. Well, times are changing. The world has become more interactive to the people’s needs, rather than the big corporations.

It’s been set in stone for us, as a human people, that work is supposed to be, well, work. And it doesn’t need to be. Because work being work is living by someone else’s values.

What many of us fail to realize is that work can be fun. Take for instance anything you liked to do over the past week. Whether it was going to the ballpark you really wanted to visit, or seeing an old friend, all of that took work. Yes, not the same type of work, but really anything and everything we do is work. What we label as “work” only depends on how we perceive doing different tasks.

I absolutely realize that the people reading this post are probably not out of work (anything is possible!), but that doesn’t mean you are doing what you love right now. There is no real unit to measure success on this world. For me, it’s doing the work you love for your whole life.

But I’m going to be honest with you. There is no reason that I’m going to spend my life on an occupation even if it’s what I love to do. It just wouldn’t be worth it. There are things I want to see, places I want to be at, and times I want to spend with the people I love.

Doing what we love depends on picking the right job. Picking the right job has two different factors:

• Making sure your job choice is going to make you money
• Making sure your job choice makes you want to do your work every day

I am by no means suggesting money is where your primary concern should be. I am, however, suggesting that it will be your benefit to do this.

Do what you love

First things first. If you don’t do what you always want to do, you aren’t going to excel, and have authority in your field. It just won’t work. I mention this job occupation criteria first as I think it is slightly more important to do what you love rather than what is going to make you money.

How do you do know what you love? If you can’t rack out hobbies off the top of your head here is what you should do. Make a list of ten things that you did in the past few days. Label them from one to ten, one being the the most liked event or activity while ten being the least liked activity. Still not coming to any conclusions? Repeat in a week and see what activities you did.

Finding your passion is a topic that takes a lot to really uncover because it is somewhat like the AIDS virus. The AIDS virus? Yes. The AIDS virus. Why can’t we come up with a cure for the AIDS virus? Because it is constantly changing. Why can’t we find our passions? Because they are constantly changing. Yes, believe it or not, or passions change all the time. It’s one of the many reasons why you always seem to find spouses cheating on each other. Passion is an emotion that is constantly changing.

@Debbas provided an excellent way to find your passion. He made the following tweet on May 15: “In order to find your passion ask yourself ‘if I could do something all day for fun, what would it be.’ What’s ur passion?” What is your passion? Make it what you do to make money.

Make money

The problem with the people telling you that making is unimportant is they are simply bullshitting you. Making yourself a seven figure income is not necessary, but providing as happy life as possible for your family is.

While this is secondary to being legitimately passionate about your job, it is largely important to your future as a person. Your job defines you as a person. Having the “best” job financially, has multiple benefits including:

• Being able to support your family. You will never be able to help those close to you if you don’t have a well paying job.
• Having the ability to create success on the outside. You may not be able to be actually successful, but at least your friends can think you are somewhat well off.

In my mind, having a loving what you do and having a low paying job is better than making millions doing what you hate. But hey, don’t take my advice, I’ve never applied for a job!

This post is written by Dan Miranda. Click here to follow him on Twitter (@timecommander).