I used to be a professional classical musician.
I had so much passion for it that it was spilling out of my ears. I didn't care about anything else. In fact, I was so damn passionate that all I did was practice, go to rehearsals, go to the vocal studio and go to gigs in a never-ending cycle for 3 grueling years.
I was lucky to have 5 hours of sleep a night. I can't remember how many times I'd fall asleep with my head on the piano, sheet music strewn all over the floor of the tiny, suffocating practice room.
I didn't get nearly the amount of ass I could've. Although the musician thing did some heavy lifting for me. My physical health suffered. I was broke as fuck.
BUT...I was passionate!! :-) :-) :-)
....That's all that matters, right....???
Don't get caught up in the buzzwords. Here's the misunderstood thing about "passion". What is it, exactly? Here's what it is:
It's the fundamental masculine desire to be free to do as you please. To do what excites you, turns you on, makes you feel good about getting up in the morning. Money affords that freedom and a career you truly love affords that freedom too.
The whole point of earning a lot of money is to win your freedom and security. The money isn't the end but a means to your personal ends: travel, good food, entertainment, healthy living, whatever makes you feel good.
In other words, if you have enough money, then you're free to do the things that you're passionate about without any strings attached. But doing something you love isn't going to auto-magically put money in your checking account, pay your bills or support your baby mama.
There's another dimension to your question. If, on the one hand, you choose a mundane but lucrative career, you'll be stacking Benjamins (Jacksons go to wifey) but you'll have no free time to spend it. Well ok, maybe the odd vacation or so. But as Seth Godin said "instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
And let me tell you something else about following a career based on so-called passion. You know what the best way is to turn something you love into something you hate? Make it an obligation. It doesn't sound possible. How can you come to hate something you love when you get to do it every day? Well, when it's the thing that's supposed to put bread on the table yet doesn't do it adequately, that's when you start to see the forest for the trees.
I don't know you and I don't know what's going on inside your head and your heart. But in your position I would choose NEITHER option. I would IMMEDIATELY begin building some kind of internet-based business that allows you freedom of location, freedom of time (more or less), and the potential to earn very good money and develop skills that you will ALWAYS be able to depend on to pay the bills.
Not to mention, true freedom to pursue the things you're passionate about on YOUR own terms, without turning them into an ugly obligation.
I had so much passion for it that it was spilling out of my ears. I didn't care about anything else. In fact, I was so damn passionate that all I did was practice, go to rehearsals, go to the vocal studio and go to gigs in a never-ending cycle for 3 grueling years.
I was lucky to have 5 hours of sleep a night. I can't remember how many times I'd fall asleep with my head on the piano, sheet music strewn all over the floor of the tiny, suffocating practice room.
I didn't get nearly the amount of ass I could've. Although the musician thing did some heavy lifting for me. My physical health suffered. I was broke as fuck.
BUT...I was passionate!! :-) :-) :-)
....That's all that matters, right....???
Don't get caught up in the buzzwords. Here's the misunderstood thing about "passion". What is it, exactly? Here's what it is:
It's the fundamental masculine desire to be free to do as you please. To do what excites you, turns you on, makes you feel good about getting up in the morning. Money affords that freedom and a career you truly love affords that freedom too.
The whole point of earning a lot of money is to win your freedom and security. The money isn't the end but a means to your personal ends: travel, good food, entertainment, healthy living, whatever makes you feel good.
In other words, if you have enough money, then you're free to do the things that you're passionate about without any strings attached. But doing something you love isn't going to auto-magically put money in your checking account, pay your bills or support your baby mama.
There's another dimension to your question. If, on the one hand, you choose a mundane but lucrative career, you'll be stacking Benjamins (Jacksons go to wifey) but you'll have no free time to spend it. Well ok, maybe the odd vacation or so. But as Seth Godin said "instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
And let me tell you something else about following a career based on so-called passion. You know what the best way is to turn something you love into something you hate? Make it an obligation. It doesn't sound possible. How can you come to hate something you love when you get to do it every day? Well, when it's the thing that's supposed to put bread on the table yet doesn't do it adequately, that's when you start to see the forest for the trees.
I don't know you and I don't know what's going on inside your head and your heart. But in your position I would choose NEITHER option. I would IMMEDIATELY begin building some kind of internet-based business that allows you freedom of location, freedom of time (more or less), and the potential to earn very good money and develop skills that you will ALWAYS be able to depend on to pay the bills.
Not to mention, true freedom to pursue the things you're passionate about on YOUR own terms, without turning them into an ugly obligation.