Aug 18, 2016 ● Kate Lopaze
Should You Do What You Love for a Living? What are the Pros and Cons?
Do what you love. That sounds so lovely and so easy, right? Pick your obvious passion, and find a way to get paid for it. Easy peasy…except when it’s not. Doing what you love isn’t always the easy option—it could require sacrifices, complicated decisions, or even the realization that you don’t know what you love to do after all. So what do you do? Should you find a reliable career path that doesn’t stress you out, but also doesn’t really excite you? Or should you pursue that passion project, and risk it all on that path?
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer here. Both have benefits and drawbacks. Let’s look at some of both.